RE: Why is life programmed to survive?
August 29, 2016 at 5:08 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2016 at 5:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 29, 2016 at 4:43 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Sunflowers turn their heads to face the sun all day each day. Would a depressed sun flower figure "why bother" and take a day off? Do you think the action of a sunflower plant to align the face of its flowers with the sun is evidence of intention in plants? What need have plants of subjective states? What organs do they have to produce them?An interesting thing, considering that their lack of organs-as-such is why they don;t need to run....and may itself help to explain why they have no use or capacity for fear. Also...depressed sunflowers, lol, brilliant.
Quote:Actions don't bespeak either intention or subjective states, no more than complexity of structure is evidence of design.Which is where it all get's amusing..because that's -precisely- how we determine intent and subjective states in human beings.
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