XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, alt.animals.dog, rec.pets.dogs.behavior   
      
   On Sun, 02 Oct 2005  Goo wrote:   
      
   >Barry Blust wrote:   
   >   
   >> Let's try to understand the meaning of awareness and its difference from   
   >> knowing, instincts and learned behaviors.   
   >>   
   >> Dogs smell and hear and taste and jump above tall grass and disregard   
   >> pain sometimes and roll over to say "I give up" because of instincts.   
   >> These things are the results of long term and short term evolution... and   
   >> have nothing to do with awareness.   
   >   
   >Exactly right.   
      
       LOL. They evolved as they did *because* of their awareness, and the   
   way that they responded to that awareness. But you are the last person   
   who would ever be able to understand that Goo. You not only can't   
   understand it, you're apparently not even capable of considering it.   
      
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