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Date: Sunday, 1 Nov 1992 01:18:48 EST
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Subject: Cogito ergo -my foot
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You see a pebble roll  down a hill, hit  a boulder, bounce  off, up and over
the boulder, and continue  down the hill. Did this pebble  consciously
traverse the boulder?

Humans tend to give some sort of magical qualities to phenomena they can not
explain.
Take philosophies that consider the sun to be a being of a sort. Can one
not see why anyone would think so. I mean here is this thing suspended above
that somehow emits something you can feel and see bounce off things
all around you.
The same for fire worshipers. Fire is so incongruous to what we consider
inanimate.

We        generate stimulusas rocks falling into a pond  do, and react to
our own stimulus as perhaps the different layers of the sun react to
eachother.

What magic do we have that the sun doesn't?

I don't think reproduction. Many humans can not reproduce.


Just thinking,
Levi
ge0qc@cunyvm


"Yes, Hal.." -Dr. Chandra


