Brent: who is - " W e " - ?????? John M Those answers you quoted are at a lower level of 'knowledge-base" than we pretend to be at now. Evolution?? a snapshot in the sequence we happen to witness. Do we KNOW anything for sure about it (or anything else)? we THINK so. Well, we don't.. Evidence is in the eyes of the beholder (or: the chatter). JM
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:05 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > Are We Really Conscious? > By MICHAEL S. A. GRAZIANO > > OF the three most fundamental scientific questions about the human > condition, two have been answered. > > First, what is our relationship to the rest of the universe? Copernicus > answered that one. We’re not at the center. We’re a speck in a large place. > > Second, what is our relationship to the diversity of life? Darwin answered > that one. Biologically speaking, we’re not a special act of creation. We’re > a twig on the tree of evolution. > > ... > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/are-we-really-conscious.html?ref=opinion > > -- > 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.
