Re: Lisa's post on evolution -Reply

[Jim Jaszewski <jjazz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Howie Chodos wrote:

> However, to
> have the capacity to know that one is acting according to a conception of
> the good is a feature that our species possesses that I cannot imagine
> attributing to any other known species. I could probably be persuaded that
> any act which involves this kind of second-order reasoning is uniquely
> (given our present knowledge) human. If this is so, then to have the
> capacity to engage in it is to be human. Whether this is sufficient to
> define "human" I do not know, but it does seem to me to necessarily be part
> of any such definition.

        Animals have been known to altruistically aid humans...

        My observation has been that all higher animals possess the same
basic thought processes that we do -- just that our being top-heavy in
grey matter gives us the 'qualitative' edge...

        (I'm simply AMAZED by animals, sometimes -- and I don't even have
much contact with them...)



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