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|    dh@. to moonspeak@hotmail.com    |
|    Re: Dogs and self-awareness    |
|    03 Oct 05 11:55:15    |
      XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, alt.animals.dog, rec.pets.dogs.behavior              On 2 Oct 2005 16:44:47 -0700, moonspeak@hotmail.com wrote:              >dh@. wrote:       >> 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.       >       >Dogs did not evolve because of the way they respond to things.               LOL! If that were true, nothing would have ever evolved from the very       first form of life...LOL...what a concept!              >Evolution is a continual process. Dogs are the way they are because of       >the mechanisms of evolution.               You have obviously given no thought at all as to exactly what the many       mechanisms of evolution happen to be. You must be a girl.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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