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- From: pjnelson@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (nelson peter j)
- Subject: Re: I AM NOT A LONELY MAN WITH FALSE BELIEFS!
- References: <1992Dec21.034959.161936@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1992Dec21.073955.22439@timesink.chi.il.us>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:45:57 GMT
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- harry@timesink.chi.il.us (Harold Platypus) writes:
- >And what do you think makes us so superior to animals? Physiologically we
- >are indeed animals... Just because the human brain reached some "critical
- >mass" and the race attained sentience doesn't automatically make us very
- >heavy on the intelligience scale. Quite the opposite is true, as we are
- >the only species that's determined to destroy itself and its environment.
- >If there is truly intelligient life "Out There", it ought to be scared
- >shitless at the prospect of the human race escaping its "Prison Earth".
-
- Well, you may live with dolphins and dogs and cats and pigs....
- I'll live with people, thank you!
-
- Peter J Nelson
- >-Harry
-