[MD] I am that

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha to Platt]
No doubt about it, I like human life!  And I do appreciate individual 
experiences, and I agree with you human experiences are of a unique 
and special kind.

[Arlo]
Just to be clear, I never said the properties of human life were not 
"unique". But, I think our "uniqueness" in the animal world is not 
because "we can respond to DQ and nothing else can", but because our 
possibility in response is so much larger, involving (very complex) 
social and intellectual responses, that are not possible among less 
complex biological patterns.

DQ will get a dog and a woman off a hot stove, but the woman can 
later invent all kinds of "marvelous analogues" to describe and 
relate this experience.

[Marsha]
Without human consciousness, no gravity, no quantum 
mechanics, no Giant, no ZMM &LILA, no Velazquez paintings, no Arlo, 
well, the missing patterns would be endless.

[Arlo]
Without human consciousness, you would be unable to "miss" anything. ;-)