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Fish do/don't anticipate things? (was: "ARAs" against Game chickens)



 
 
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Old August 30th, 2005, 01:19 PM
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:06:41 -0400, Logic316 wrote:

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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from
a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.


This poem is fundamentally flawed. Most animals, including avian
species, lack the necessary mental capacity to have a sense of "self" in
the first place.

- Logic316


There are examples that suggest otherwise. For example: We all
know that a dog is aware of his balls, so what would make us believe
he is not aware of himself?
 




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