my two or three cents:
I think that thought is INEFFICIENT in terms of fulfilling action. Water is always able to find the path of least resistance without building up while it calculates which path that is. I think animals work in the same 'automatic' way except through sensory input, giving them an ability to form habitual reactions based on empirical sensory input. That itself is not consciousness. Sometimes the path of least resistance for water is up into the air, opposite of gravity, and the water still doesn't hesitate. I think water that would have to "find out" what path was least resistant might not think to go away from gravity right away. Animals may have outstanding abilities that make them seem to appear as if they must have some kind of faculty of thought or consciousness as they do them, such as migration of birds, but aren't machines like computers just as outstanding in abilities, and sometimes given qualities of consciousness (artificial intelligence)? And yet when someone with their thinking sits at a computer to operate it, the ability of the computer is limited to the capacity of the mind of the thinking person using it... ...and here I am sitting at my computer rambling on... SEE?! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? Network for Good is THE place to support health awareness efforts! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UwRTUD/UOnJAA/i1hLAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi. New or used at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570622280/ref=ase_actionheroesc-20/002-4507763-9442460?v=glance&s=books> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
