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.   
      
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