[Arlo previously] The question here is give me an example of something Animal X could do, as a result of being responsive to DQ, that UTOE (and other animals today) can no longer do.
[Platt] If you can specify the specific individual animal that moved evolution along you will be a hero among biologists and probably receive a Nobel prize. Maybe it was that half-bird, half-dinosaur that was found in a fossil. But I would look for its predecessor and the one before that and the one before that. [Arlo] This is not an answer to the question. Give me an example of something Animal X could do, as an animal that could respond to DQ, that no animal today can do. There is Animal X over by that tree... tell me what it could do that no animal today can do. [Arlo previously] Let's go back to Time X. There is Animal X over by the tree. In this time, could all other single animals also respond to DQ? Was it only some of the single animals, while other single animals could not? Was it all other animals like Animal X (if Animal X was a sabretooth, does that mean all individual sabertoothes could respond to DQ)? [Platt] My simple mind cannot follow your convolutions. [Arlo] You've said, there existed once a single animal that could respond to DQ. Could all single animals of the same species also respond to DQ? For example, let's say Animal X was a wolf. Could all wolves respond to DQ? Or could some but not others? [Platt] Let me pose a reframe (but please answer the original as well). Would you say that ALL humans can respond to DQ? So that even a human infant, left at birth on a deserted island and miraculously surviving into adulthood, would also respond to DQ? This would seem to make it a biological trait that enabled responsiveness ot DQ. If not, what would it be? [Platt] Say what? [Arlo] 1. Can all humans respond to DQ? 2. What commonality among humans makes humans capable of responding to DQ? Is it biological, for example our "brain structure"? [Arlo previously] So there was an overlap when "man" existed, that both individual humans and individuals animals could respond to DQ? [Platt] Please specify when man existed. [Arlo] I know you're trying to play rheotical games, Platt, but try to answer this one without the schtick. 3. Was there ever a point in time when there simultaneously existed both (a) a human that could respond to DQ and (b) an animal that could respond to DQ? [Arlo previously] To clarify, evolution has stopped regarding all things except "man"? [Platt] All things? No. [Arlo] Give me an example of something that is still evolving that does not involve "man". 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/
