RE: Thoughts on next video...
April 4, 2013 at 3:49 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 3:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Again your constant reference to civilization is why I keep hammering this home
-discovering a planet filled with a dazzling array of "beetles" - sans civ- isn't enough? We have such a planet right here.
-discovering a planet filled with a dazzling array of "birds" that have covered every jutting rock - squirreled into caves and even underwater -sans civ- isn't enough? We have such a planet right here.
Anthropomorphism is assigning some human attribute or motivation or behavior to a non human thing. To say a hurricane is "angry", to say the weeds "conspire"...or to say that evolution (or a god) "favors".
Anthropocentrism is the notion that human beings are a central or most important species - an assessment of reality through an exclusively human perspective. Now I understand that you feel that invoking some as yet undiscovered species might excuse you here - but it doesn't...because even when you invoke them you seem to insist that something like civilization (exclusively human- where are my ants and bacteria?) is going to be an indicator. That's why I offered the idea of a species that was incredibly advanced but had no need for a civilization.
-discovering a planet filled with a dazzling array of "beetles" - sans civ- isn't enough? We have such a planet right here.
-discovering a planet filled with a dazzling array of "birds" that have covered every jutting rock - squirreled into caves and even underwater -sans civ- isn't enough? We have such a planet right here.
Anthropomorphism is assigning some human attribute or motivation or behavior to a non human thing. To say a hurricane is "angry", to say the weeds "conspire"...or to say that evolution (or a god) "favors".
Anthropocentrism is the notion that human beings are a central or most important species - an assessment of reality through an exclusively human perspective. Now I understand that you feel that invoking some as yet undiscovered species might excuse you here - but it doesn't...because even when you invoke them you seem to insist that something like civilization (exclusively human- where are my ants and bacteria?) is going to be an indicator. That's why I offered the idea of a species that was incredibly advanced but had no need for a civilization.
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