RE: Mind Over Matter?
April 12, 2015 at 8:23 am
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2015 at 8:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 10, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Nestor Wrote: (though I wonder if single-celled organisms have anything like a modicum of sensation or if they operate as more sophisticated machinations in the same way as inanimate objects do when forces are at play)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnidaria
No brains (no hearts either/..wewt). They use a net. Do you think their behaviors imply sensation rather than sophisticated machination (or that there is a difference in any case..as the question carries implicitly)? I use their example to show that we have reason to ask ourselves the question above in quotes long before we reach the simplicity of single celled organisms....if we think we need to go further "down" than ourselves...that is. I would call sensation -itself- a sophisticated machination, personally.
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