I would say that that's a very difficult subject to the answer. I can only say that animals behave with their limited receptors to whatever extent they're receptors tell them; they're receptors are not sophisticated and that's why they're called primitive. Human being is capable of a wide range of receptors or instruments to improve their ability to function, such as microscopes which extend their sensitivity into realms that they themselves cannot perceive visually. They can use instruments and the instruments serve as extensional devices, but human beings without instruments would be very primitive indeed.

Also in terms of "evolved behaviors"--animals really react to their environment whatever receptors they have, if it doesn't work well within their environment whether you call them evolved or whatever--what other--whatever changed mechanisms or apparatus that they--if it doesn't work well in their environment they die out. So "evolved" is kind of a strange word--evolved behaviors.

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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized

QA#: 2012051306
Transcribed by Nathaniel Wotring