If you have any doubts, just look at the scrolling messages underneath. It's DEFINITELY a spoof!
On 5 June 2014 04:17, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 29 May 2014, at 03:56, meekerdb wrote: > > On 5/28/2014 6:48 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 29 May 2014 13:43, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 5/28/2014 6:28 PM, LizR wrote: >> >>> >>> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/innovators/2014/05/140528-lori-marino-dolphins-animals-personhood-blackfish-taiji-science-world/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20140528news-lori&utm_campaign=Content&sf3097303=1 >>> >> >> "The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but Can they >> suffer?" >> Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) >> > > Ah, so consciousness *is* both more difficult and more important than > intelligence! > > > I don't think it's more difficult - I think some very unintelligent > animals can suffer. Of course there are different kinds of suffering. I > doubt that suffering pain requires human-like consciousness, > > > OK. > > > but suffering existential angst probably does. > > > A funny (or depressive?) video, on a team of scientist explaining to a > gorilla that he will die: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkWS4t4l0k > > I think it is a sort of april fool, though. > > Animals know angst, but probably not the angst of angst. You might need > languages for that. I am not sure though. > > Bruno > > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
