[SA previously]
> > Does this me not seeing a cougar throw a wrench
> into what you were onto?
[Peter]
> No. It invalidates somewhat, but I, too, have seen
> animals hesitate,
> obviously considering what is the right thing for
> them to do.
> I'm interested in the question of whether non-human
> beings can act from the
> intellectual level. Bo says the intellectual level
> is characterised by SOM
> activity which we would normally assume to be
> exclusive to humans but I
> think we do the other animals an injustice.
I've read this true story before about this
person from Alaska (an Amerindian) who commented upon
the National Forest Management (NFM) of wildlife in
that state. The NFM were capturing wildlife (I
believe at the time it was moose), and putting
tracking systems on these animals. The Amerindian
said and I paraphrase, "Did the NFM ask the moose if
they could do these things to them?"
Calvin Martin wrote this book called "The Way of
the Human Being" according to his personal experience
with Amerindians and how Amerindians elaborate upon
their own cultural stories, and what these cultural
stories mean to them, in other words, what values do
these stories provide in meaning to their perspectives
about life on this earth. This comment from this
Alaskan Amerindian to Martin goes to the heart of what
Martin finds Turtle Island has to say about itself.
woods,
SA
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