[MD] -elitist ideas

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Arlo previously]
Rocks experience gravity, do they not? If not, why do they fall?

[Platt]
My shoes fall to the floor when I take them off at night, but I hardly attribute
to them an inner life of experience that makes them say "ouch" when they hit
the floor.

[Arlo]
Nowhere did I say rocks or shoes experience social and/or intellectual patterns,
nor even biological patterns, necessary to experience pain and formulate
post-experience reflection on the event (and of producing the sound "ouch").

But rocks do experience inorganic value, its what holds them together, makes
them fall, etc.