TEDxAsheville - Dee Eggers - Dolphins as Persons

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14 жыл бұрын

UNC-Asheville professor, Dee Eggers discusses dolphins as persons and ideas for protecting them and other species that face extinction.
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@bt-wk2xf 3 жыл бұрын

She's an incredible person and the best professor/mentor I ever had.

@FreedomForOrcas 12 жыл бұрын

If dolphins are persons, that raises some serious questions about our treatment towards them. Like confining them in small tanks for human amusement, the dolphin drives where they are brutally slaughtered in front of each other, and even just humans trying to interact with them in their environment and so disturbing their way of life. Great video, very eye opening!

@danapenaherrera4739 6 жыл бұрын

Why this 10 yr old information is not the headline news 100,000 gallons of oil per acre why why why

@devikafollosco2456 6 жыл бұрын

The government of India declared personhood for dolphins a few years ago. Acknowledging other species' personhood is way overdue for the human race. We're way behind them in acknowledging the intelligence and inherent value of other species' beingness.

@Dorubel 9 жыл бұрын

" Taken to the nth degree, anything less than love is a form of insanity." A.M.

@nikol8873 10 жыл бұрын

dolphins are 'persons'. now thats just a word! humans are 'persons' now thats just a word.. it doesnt matter! what matters is that: we treat other beings and the whole ecosystem with respect and understanding! and if we don't know whether they are 'persons' they still deserve our best presumptions about them. if you don't understand them, leave them in peace, instead of eating them... the point that we DO NOT label something a person, does NOT JUSTIFY eating them!! feel the force... they all do...

@dansmith4035 7 жыл бұрын

I respect your opinion, but unless something has an intelligence, like a monkey, you can eat it, because, well at least in my opinion, we started as hunter gatherers eating meat in the wild.

@katiekat4457 6 жыл бұрын

For me, I think of it as animals and humans have souls. Not in a religious way though. Some are more intelligent than others. That’s true but they all seem to have some kind of feelings and personalities and different specialties. Dog’s smell everything. Way too many animals to name communicate. Octopus can’t be stumped by any of our tests. Along with cuddle fish. Dolphins and whales are so very special. Even a lot of fish have personalities believe it or not. I could do without sharks, snakes, mosquitos & I can’t decide about ants. Birds are funny especially cranes because they imprint on whoever is there when they are born. Mama to whoever is there and for life. Lizards have personalities. They all have souls. They are all just very different and yet similar to each other and us.

@katiekat4457 6 жыл бұрын

DAN SMITH that’s just one reason I don’t believe in God. Why would an almighty God set up a world or ecosystem were you have to kill something in order to stay alive. Surely a great God could have come up with a food source for everything that didn’t mandate killing something else and painfully at that. If there actually was a great God things would live and intake food but food would not be alive and it wouldn’t be chewing on rocks either. It would be something that hasn’t been imagined.

@libmoore 7 жыл бұрын

7 years on and we havent changed shit

@gregoryhayes3900 5 жыл бұрын

Dolphins are people, too. I have always felt that way. This only solidifies it for me 🐬

@tonyharp2009 14 жыл бұрын

"The fact that its hard makes the fact that its optional irrelevant" AMEN!! Excellent, excellent take on dolphins and our world as a whole.

@leotxilo9306 5 жыл бұрын

Not optional* makes hard irrelevant..

@marinemeen 9 жыл бұрын

Great talk thank you !

@OmarHaleemOne 12 жыл бұрын

She is amazing,,an excellent totally awesome presentation.

@gregoryhayes3900 5 жыл бұрын

Those are awesome and amazing stories. I , for one, believe her. Unfortunately, skeptics will doubt her and require proof. So sad 🐬🐬🐬

@erinlawson703 9 жыл бұрын

I might be a little bit in love with you.... Also, I hugged trees as a kid too before I knew there was a term for that. Now a proud tree hugger, in at the very least the symbolic sense :-)

@lawrenceburns768 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@spexi513 Жыл бұрын

Love this so so much 💚💚💚

@ammaraljamali7178 5 жыл бұрын

“They are nations like you” A verse from the Quran. I feel good when I listen to a human being like you.

@billymeadows328 2 жыл бұрын

Good show

@billymeadows328 2 жыл бұрын

You give me a new respect for dolphins. Thank you

@dubwrightly 12 жыл бұрын

I do like it, I like all animals, I think they should all be treated with respect. That includes not being treated cruely, or eaten.

@sapphoslips 3 жыл бұрын

What's the student's name and why isn't he doing this presentation?

@goodnaturearts 12 жыл бұрын

Love this woman! Especially want to be saved my micro algae! Too funny.

@Caqui 13 жыл бұрын

While I appreciate what she's doing, I think she shouldn't discredit elephants. They have the thickest cerebral cortex after humans. Dolphins are a distant 4th, after chimps. The cerebral cortex is normally associated with higher cognitive processes/complex intelligence; thinking, memories, emotions, self-awareness, etc. But no one ever makes a case for elephants being "persons." Elephants mourn their dead and help the dying, even if they aren't related.

@Mycuriousnature 3 жыл бұрын

I think elephants could definitely added to the 'personhood' category. Anything that displays intelligence, emotion, self awareness, and complex social awareness.

@wkeeters 13 жыл бұрын

dude dolphins are totally people, Mrs. Eggers is awsome.

@hinterlandzaus 5 жыл бұрын

Can I get a witness!

@VildhjartaFanGurl 5 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭😭😭😭

@KerrieRedgate 6 жыл бұрын

Even plants have consciousness and emotion, that was proven scientifically way back in the mid-1960s (using polygraphs). All life is based in consciousness that simply takes different form. But we humans do have one unique distinction, and that is our outstanding arrogance.

@hinterlandzaus 5 жыл бұрын

Kerrie Redgate ooooo hate to burst your bubble but guess who did that polygraph test? .... I don’t remember exactly imma go check but pretty sure ya boi L. Ron of Scientology fame

@hinterlandzaus 5 жыл бұрын

But after a little research it’s a few people

@mongolchiuud8931 7 жыл бұрын

a dolphin molested me.

@gregoryhayes3900 5 жыл бұрын

If people only knew…

@sunmeetkaur7387 5 жыл бұрын

All animals are persons. They all feel pain. Animals have never harmed humans however humans continue to destroy thier habitat and kill animals for consumption.

@CleverClover2023 4 жыл бұрын

Not really. Person hood is very very specific and only a small group of animals can be granted person hood and rights. One attribute that would designate these rights would be 'self awareness'. The ability to recognize self. Cetaceans have this ability which is very rare aside from humans, cetaceans, corvids (ravens and crows), primates and elephants.

@RTMarx 4 жыл бұрын

@@CleverClover2023 Pretty much all animals have self awareness. You need it to be mobile, or you wouldn't know when your body ends and the space begins. Like, if a rabbit didn't know the rabbit was the rabbit and not the air / window / trees, they would not know how to move. The mirror recognition test shows an advanced form of self awareness, but many animals that are very self aware don't pass the test either. It is unfair for us humans who are very visual to compare animals who might use other senses much more or use visuals in a different way. Sorry for the bad explanation, but yeah. My point is that every animal is a person and are deserving of basic rights.

@in3432 4 жыл бұрын

Dolphins are persons, then chimps are persons and where do we draw the line? Of course these animals are sentient beings.

@Flamingerudostalion 4 жыл бұрын

They're not people. They are deserving of greater protections, understanding, and respect (as are most animals, tbh), but there is no such thing as a nonhuman person (that we know of yet).

@Mycuriousnature 3 жыл бұрын

By 'person' it is mean consciously aware of oneself as an individual as well as the other attributes she spoke of.

@mayailusion5274 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and they suffer....done by us.

@spoonyquine1584 6 жыл бұрын

Neanderthals were persons... Are apes? Dolphins, it seems, could be considered among,us. Perhaps one day, the dolphins will take off in their spaceships. And the earth will be demolished to make way for an intergalactic freeway.

@davidwilmothall 12 жыл бұрын

My dolphin lied

@dubwrightly 12 жыл бұрын

Dolphins have the second most complex brain on the planet, there is NO close second." Did you even watch the video?

@bbbb95476 6 жыл бұрын

which next video are you referring to?

@sebastradlinyeayeayea1070 3 жыл бұрын

Actually in south América we call animals for "he" or "she" people who talk english call them for "it" we don't use that pronoun for animals... I mean is incorrect. We use Just for things... Objects, well and plants.