Animal Minds; how much can we learn about them? (Animals)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 17, 2015, 21:41 (3046 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: You constantly emphasize that we are different in kind, but what you cannot contemplate is that other organisms may have one form of intelligence that is actually superior to our own. -And what is that superior intelligence you are postulating? -> dhw:And yet you constantly alert us to the fact that cell communities can do things we can't even begin to match with our consciousness, and we need all our human type of intelligence just to unravel the way they work.-Simple God programmed in the kind of information/instructions that handle it.-> dhw: Mine is that maybe your God gave them the means to work it out for themselves.-I've agreed to an inventive mechanism within limits of guidelines.-> dhw: But you cannot contemplate this possibility because of your fixation on human consciousness as the be-all and end-all of your God's purpose.-It can all fit together. Evolution is one process with different guided parts and it ends with conscious humans.