[MD] I am that

[MarshaV]

On Sep 20, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Arlo Bensinger wrote:

> [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.
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> [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.

I agree.   


> [Arlo]
> 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.

You have conceptually constructed that DQ will get a dog and a woman off a hot stove.  DQ is a marvelous (very, high quality) analogue to describe and relate that experience.   


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> [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. ;-)

My day to agree with Arlo, too.   ;-)  







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