From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 07:56:04 MST
On 2002.01.16, Randall Randall <wolfkin@freedomspace.net> wrote:
> > certainly the parts of the brain that deal with fear, love, pleasure
> > and pain are very old; but it took another 400 million years of
> > experimentation before evolution invented true intelligence and
> > the creativity it produces.
>
> Response is not self-awareness. Having the chemical and physical
> states that correspond to loving, fearing, and feeling pleasure and
> pain does not make an animal a person, even though people also
> have these states.
By coincidence, do you believe that humans posess a soul?
Otherwise, how can you say that the chemical and physical states
are not sufficient to demonstrate self-awareness?
-- Dossy
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