> So the crows may very well be dancing, for all "practical" purposes...
there's lots of evidence of this sort of thing. early settlers in the American west found bison running up to frozen lakes and then sliding across the ice. they'd do it over and over again. otters play, dogs dream, parrots have been very frequently reported formulating new sentences with their limited vocabularies. that doesn't necessarily invalidate the functional perspective, though. -- Giles Bowkett http://www.gilesgoatboy.org http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com http://gilesgoatboy.blogspot.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
