Ian, I was mostly interjecting my view on your behalf to Platt.
Micah Micah, You miss my point, the crucial "except". I agree with you. The cat (almost certainly) has no self other than one we as humans infer / project onto its behaviour. Ian On 5/14/07, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian, > > You and Platt have given your cats all the attributes of "self". "Self", > like all concepts, is human and cannot apply to cats or any animals. That > would require a non human point of view (there are no other points of view - > "point of view" itself is a uniquely human concept) and humans can only have > a human point of view, so to know that cats think is an affirmation of > "collective consciousness" (which is not possible because I cannot be anyone > other than me or to quote the great philosopher Popeye - "I am what I am and > that's all I am!"; to assume, which you and Platt are doing, is > anthropomorphization. Aaaaaand we're back! Man is the measure of all things. > > Micah > > 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/
