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May 8th, 2006, 04:43 PM
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Re: OT: Some of mankind\'s toughest questions
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May 8th, 2006, 11:53 PM
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Re: OT: Some of mankind\'s toughest questions
Sometimes I hear people say that humans are sentient but other animals are not. I don't understand how we could possibly know this. How can you tell the difference, for example, whether a dog is sentient or not?
If we agree that humans are sentient, I would argue that other animals are sentient also. But then we have the problem of where to draw the line. Are fish sentient? Are insects sentient? Are plants sentient? I would have to say that viruses and bacteria are too simple to be sentient, so which organisms are sentient and which are not?
Part of the problem is that we don't have a good definition of what "sentient" means, but the other part of the problem is that you could never know what another creature is thinking, whether it is self-aware or not, what thought processes it is going through.
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May 8th, 2006, 08:57 PM
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Re: OT: Some of mankind\'s toughest questions
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AT: "Why do I always get all the [censored] bad luck? WTF God?
God: "Atrocities, there's just something about you that pisses me off!"
AT, for what it's worth, we all love you on this board; we just can't show it when God's around... 
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May 9th, 2006, 02:45 AM
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Re: OT: Some of mankind\'s toughest questions
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Hunpecked said:
AT: "Why do I always get all the [censored] bad luck? WTF God?
God: "Atrocities, there's just something about you that pisses me off!"
AT, for what it's worth, we all love you on this board; we just can't show it when God's around...
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Too Hell with that !!! God's been pissin' on my shoes for years now, so I got your back, AT , anytime, anywhere, any reason...
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May 9th, 2006, 01:35 PM
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Re: OT: Some of mankind\'s toughest questions
One of my favorite lines from a movie:
"God is going to sit this one out."
I don't remember what the movie is called, but it features that guy in the black t-shirt with a big skull on it (could be me, but I'm not as big and muscular as he is...  ).
Anyway, back to the original question:
"42". 
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Re: OT: Some of mankind\'s toughest questions
I have no free will. I must post to this thread. There is no choice. It must occur. Chemical biology exists; therefore my free will does not. And now, I must stop this post.
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