RE: Seems Like The Books Of Holy Horseshit
May 22, 2015 at 1:40 pm
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2015 at 1:40 pm by Pyrrho.)
(May 22, 2015 at 12:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(May 21, 2015 at 3:31 am)ignoramus Wrote: I read about that a little while ago. Blew me away.
It still boggles the mind!
I'm starting to think that we could very well be the only sentient life in the whole universe!
Large swaths of it are not all that "sentient." I'm thinking the middle east and the American south.
"Sentient" does not mean "intelligent." If you have a dog, even if it is particularly stupid for a dog, it is sentient. Unless, of course, your dog is dead.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
