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Dog_Ed
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Posted - 11/09/2001 :  01:45:15   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dog_Ed's Homepage Send Dog_Ed a Private Message
Snake: I've read some Dawkins but I'm not extremely conversant. Picking amongst the detritus of various books I guess I kept the idea that language facilitates abstract thinking because it seems to make sense when I think about myself thinking, especially thinking about thinking. Hehe. I'm not a fan of mimetics though.

"Even Einstein put his foot in it sometimes"
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Trish
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Posted - 11/09/2001 :  05:33:29   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Trish a Private Message
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I haven't yet read Descartes there Snake and only a bit of Hume...however, thought must have originally led to organized speach otherwise, why would we need, or feel compelled to express ourselves to the outside world. Would we not have remained animals that grunt with no further need to communicate than to warn of danger? I think that thought causes our abstraction of speach.


Whooa! You may not have read him but you think like him. Perhaps you are a reincarnation. That's scarry!

Rap Crap is to music what Paint by Numbers is to art.



Well then maybe I should probably go pick something up by him the next time I'm at the bookstore - let's see - payday is next week, hmmm. Should be two weeks before I finish the books I am currently reading (which BTW, includes one by Dawkins and another by Gould.)

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. -Mark Twain
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