[Craig, previously] > Of course, it is an inorganic awareness, not to be confused with awareness at > the biological level.
[Ham] > To perpetuate the myth that the "attractive" behavior of objects equates with > subjective awareness is a regression Well, I warned you not to confuse the two. [Ham] > Animism is apparently still alive and well in the MoQ community. Animism is the view that the kind of awareness at the biological level is also available at the inorganic level. That view is NOT "alive and well in the MoQ community". [Ham] > Just what is "an inorganic awareness"? I assume that all the participants > on this forum have had a class to two in Physics or Biology. If so, (unless > the "progressive movement" in education has abandoned scientific principles) > you will not have been taught any such concept. True, it was learned in studying the MoQ. [Ham] > In the absence of a brain and nervous system, there can be no cognition, > feeling, or awareness. True only of awareness at the biological level. [Ham] > But a magnet isn't attracted to an iron bar because it is "aware of it", nor > does a ball thrown into the air fall because it "values" the ground. That's a concise restatement of your position. But you need to show the MoQ explanation (that you've rejected) is incompatible with yours. Craig 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
