[MD] On Cats, Awareness, DQ and All That Jazz

[Krimel]

> [John]
> That is Royce's description of Absolute Thought.

[Platt]
Great minds always reach the same conclusions. :-)

> [John]
> Epistemologically.  Cool.  I gotta start using terms like that more often.

[Platt]
I hope you don't. Such words tend to confuse rather than clarify, 
impressing the writer more than edifying the reader.

> [John]
> So the conflict is over hierarchical dominance. And Platt, you really are
> agreeing with Royce, the champion of idealism.

[Platt]
Well, you know, great minds . . .:-)

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[Platt]
To me consciousness is awareness is experience is Quality and is 
everywhere all at once. I merely tap into it as does my cat, UTOE, 
and all other creatures, great and small.

[Arlo]
Since you believe your cat to be an automaton, an undynamic, static, 
wholly predictable pattern capable only of responding with clockwork 
predictability to external stimuli.... what on earth is the point of 
your cat "tapping into consciousness awareness"?

I mean, isn't the POINT of "tapping into awareness" to allow Dynamic 
responses? If not, it's a highly over-rated and useless concept. What 
good does "conscious awareness" do your cat, if its every response is 
a predictable, habitual, static response?

[Krimel]
Slow down there big guy. Great minds are often befuddled by the
polysyllabic. The fingers bleed with paper cuts from thumbing the
dictionary. Terribly unedifying and the smell arouses the feline
bloodlust...