(April 9, 2015 at 9:12 pm)Esquilax Wrote: If you admit you don't know what it's like to be any other form of life, then you also have no basis for the presumption that human experience is necessarily superior.
I admit it, but the conclusion does not follow, because it's pretty obvious to me that plants and non-human animals are profoundly stupid.
"Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms." -- Theory and History
