[MD] Animals and Dynamic Quality

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Arlo]
> Are you suggesting that, as a result of being responsive to DQ, "Animal X"
> could die, but UTOE, who is not able to respond to DQ, can't?

No.

> The question here is give me an example of something Animal X could do, as a
> result of being responsive to DQ, that UTOE (and other animals today) can no
> longer do.

If you can specify the specific individual animal that moved evolution along you
will be a hero among biologists and probably receive a Nobel prize. Maybe it
was that half-bird, half-dinosaur that was found in a fossil. But I would
look for its predecessor and the one before that and the one before that.  
 
> [Arlo had asked]
> Could ALL single animals at one point in time respond to DQ? Was it only
> particular "species"? Or only certain individuals within a species?
> 
> [Platt]
> An individual.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Let's go back to Time X. There is Animal X over by the tree. In this time,
> could all other single animals also respond to DQ? Was it only some of the
> single animals, while other single animals could not? Was it all other animals
> like Animal X (if Animal X was a sabretooth, does that mean all individual
> sabertoothes could respond to DQ)?

My simple mind cannot follow your convolutions. 

> Let me pose a reframe (but please answer the original as well). Would you say
> that ALL humans can respond to DQ? So that even a human infant, left at birth
> on a deserted island and miraculously surviving into adulthood, would also
> respond to DQ? This would seem to make it a biological trait that enabled
> responsiveness ot DQ. If not, what would it be?

Say what?
 
> [Arlo had asked]
> Did all animals lose their ability to respond to DQ when "man" popped up? If
> no, why? If so, how?
> 
> [Platt]
> All animals? No. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> So there was an overlap when "man" existed, that both individual humans and
> individuals animals could respond to DQ?

Please specify when man existed.

> [Platt]
> No. There is evolution in both the social and intellectual levels, and possibly
> in man's biology as it becomes connected to computers. 
 
> [Arlo]
> To clarify, evolution has stopped regarding all things except "man"? 

All things? No. 

I gather you believe everything responds to DQ. I don't.

End of conversation.  



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