(December 26, 2014 at 4:40 am)bennyboy Wrote:The point of this thread is evaluating whether or not we do have that ability.(December 26, 2014 at 12:28 am)IATIA Wrote: Just for starters, people are "subject to the demands of instinct", hunger, survival, sexual drive. Do whales, dolphins and apes have a world view? How about cats, dogs, parrots and ravens?Yes they are subject to those things. But they also have the capacity to act contrary to those instincts.
I do not know which non-human animals have a world view.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
