From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Jul 03 1999 - 13:49:21 MDT
> > Elizabeth Childs wonders: ...if we don't have some aesthetic memory
> of the dinosaurs...
> >
> >Spike Jones wrote: We dont. Missed em by several tens of millions
> of years...
>
> Darin Sunley wrote: Aesthetic memory could have been formed in the
> evolution of our
> squirrel-like distant ancestors, which were contemporaries with the
> dinosaurs.
Oops sorry Elizabeth, my bad. I should take the time to look up
aesthetic
memory before typing... {8^D Sagan goes down this path a little ways
in his book Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. There's another precursor
to this notion in his Cosmic Connection, but it is not a scientific
argument really,
just one of those wonderfully intriguing ideas at which Sagan was so
brilliant.
spike
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