[MD] Ham on Esthesia

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <case at ispots.com>:

> [Case]
> I can't speak for anyone but myself but purpose implys that some future
> state causes changes in the present behavior. In the case of your jar of
> oil and water. Once you inject it with dynamic quality by shaking it up,
> the behavior in the jar becomes chaotic. After a time it settles into a
> steady state of duality: oil and water. If you want to define the purpose
> of oil as stating away from water, you can but it seems anthropomorpic and
> trivial to me. Viewed that way the ulitmate purpose of the universe is the
> dissipation of all dynamic quality into heat death. Not a purpose that
> sets my pulse to racing although my wife in convinced I have embrassed it.

"Biology beat death billions of years ago." (Lila, 21). And biology certainly
exhibits changes in present behavior to affect a future state, like searching
for food or a sexual partner.     




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