Re: Consciousness


"Bmitch" <bmitch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> George Cherry wrote:
>
>
>> "Of course, consciousness and its revelations allow us to create a better
>> life. but the price we pay for that better life is high. It is not just
>> the
>> price of risk and danger and pain. It is the price of knowing risk,
>> danger,
>> and
>> pain. Worse even: it is the price of knowing what pleasure is and knowing
>> when
>> it is missing or unattainable."
>
>> I believe that animals may have a bit of this kind of consciousness. This
>> belief
>> is the moral basis of my treating animal considerately...
>
> This afternoon, as the sun was sinking behind the ridge, two crows flew
> slowly across the valley in extraordinary formation. They were one above
> the other, just inches apart, their wings beating in precise unison,
> murmuring croakily to one another. At one point they lost it but very
> quickly re-established the rhythm and carried on.
>
> That last point is important because it shows they were doing it by
> intent and it's impossible to believe they weren't deriving some kind of
> corvine pleasure from it.
>
>
> BM

LOL. So corvine of them.
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George


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