On Sep 20, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Arlo Bensinger wrote: > [Marsha to Platt] > No doubt about it, I like human life! And I do appreciate individual > experiences, and I agree with you human experiences are of a unique and > special kind. > > [Arlo] > Just to be clear, I never said the properties of human life were not > "unique". But, I think our "uniqueness" in the animal world is not because > "we can respond to DQ and nothing else can", but because our possibility in > response is so much larger, involving (very complex) social and intellectual > responses, that are not possible among less complex biological patterns.
I agree. > [Arlo] > DQ will get a dog and a woman off a hot stove, but the woman can later invent > all kinds of "marvelous analogues" to describe and relate this experience. You have conceptually constructed that DQ will get a dog and a woman off a hot stove. DQ is a marvelous (very, high quality) analogue to describe and relate that experience. > > [Marsha] > Without human consciousness, no gravity, no quantum mechanics, no Giant, no > ZMM &LILA, no Velazquez paintings, no Arlo, well, the missing patterns would > be endless. > > [Arlo] > Without human consciousness, you would be unable to "miss" anything. ;-) My day to agree with Arlo, too. ;-) ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
