XPost: alt.paranormal.reincarnation   
   From: askme@use.net   
      
   Ukes wrote:   
   > On Sun, 9 May 2004 09:05:32 +0100, "Dorian West"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Do things like silverfish, slugs, worms, amoeba, spiders, ants,   
   >> flies etc. Have souls, NDEs and/or are reincarnated? I would like to   
   >> know the answer to that 1, that's for sure.   
   >>   
   >   
   > No.   
   >   
   > What religion (Western religions anyway, and perhaps Eastern religions   
   > too) refers to as the "soul" is what scientists refer to as   
   > "consciousness" or "self-consciousness" - that part of us that is   
   > aware of being aware.   
   >   
   > Only humans and perhaps some of the great apes experience   
   > "self-consciousness".   
   >   
   > Jerry   
      
   I know what you mean but considering that we are the most intelligent apes   
   and that our own physical deviations like mogolide persons are not   
   intelligent at all I don't think that it is unlikely that other forms of   
   intelligence have develloped in other species. Some people clame that the   
   combination of our thumbs and the thinking rationally has made us very   
   successfull but woman tend to feel more. Other species might have develloped   
   those feelings even further like cats but that seemed to be less successfull   
   in evolution.   
      
   What I want to say is that our intelligence is just one form of existence   
   and often we exist without but do we lose our soul when we stop thinking for   
   a while?   
      
   Every thing has a soul some souls are just less develloped or more group   
   souls.   
      
   aka Joe Black, blackbird, digit11   
      
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