From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 22:14:28 MDT
--- Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal@smigrodzki.org> wrote:
>
> Humans are the only organism known to me, with well-verified
> sentience.
> Other creatures have mostly humble beginnings of sentience. A few,
> like chimpanzees, might be getting pretty close on some counts
> (which is why I would oppose chimp-hunting until we know more about
> sentience, even if chimps do not seem to be very honest)...
Ah, if you were the creationist that Greg accuses you of being, you'd
take chimp dishonesty as a sign of the presence of Original Sin, and
therefore that Chimps have souls, and are therefore people... ;)
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Mike Lorrey
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