On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
*> When Jeremy Bentham was arguing for laws against the mistreatment of
> animals he said, "The question is not whether they can think, but whether
> they can suffer."*
>
*I've said it before I'll say it again, emotion is easy but intelligence is
hard. Evolution certainly found that to be the case. Even a crocodile can
display anger and fear in the fight or flight response, the same could be
said about insects. Hell, even bacteria are attracted to some things and
repelled by others; but in the entire 3.5 billion year history of life,
random mutation and natural selection managed to produce something that can
display the sort of intelligence required to make a radio telescope once,
just once, and that was only a few hundred thousand years ago. *
*John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
tfq
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