>You are collapsing (at least) two concepts in your effort to believe that
>rationality and logic are the answer to all the questions of philosophy. In
>the first place, animal behavior is largely hardwired as the result of
>evolution in an ancestral environment. That behavior, most biologists
>agree, is "designed" to replicate genes stored in DNA in cell nuclei. If it
>looks "logical" to you that is solely an anthropomorphism, because I
>challenge you to find a cat that can beat you on an IQ test. It is possible
>that certain higher animals may be said to have some logical capacity, such
>as chimps figuring out how to use a tool to get food, but that's a far cry
>from "all animal behavior emulates logical thinking." In fact, you could
>say that the reason humans have technology and animals don't is that we
>alone possess the capacity for logical thinking.
Don't be so Level-2, Richard. Try flipping into my meme-space and you will
see what I mean. The view is wonderful from here.
-- David McFadzean david@lucifer.com Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/ Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/