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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (21069)2/23/2006 12:15:38 PM
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"It is because he is self aware."

Self awareness in children is thought to be a product of communication with others. A child cries when experiencing distress. Mother determines that the cry represents hunger and feeds the child. Eventually the child internalizes that function of crying for a calculated result. The cry morphs into requests to have needs met and in later years into inquiry and motivated action. ... "Language is to the mind as light is to the eye."

We depend entirely on communication from and with society to further distinguish and internalize the spectrum of our needs, interests, desires and attitudes until we are able to internalize more profound visions of our life's value and purposes. At such a time we might be viewed as independently self aware. Some folks, maybe most people, do not become lucid in their independent self awareness in their life time.

If we never become able to distinguish our selves from base desire we remain in some proximity to our more primitive relatives. Example: An ape is separated from a banana by a fence though there is an entrance just a few meters away. The ape is unable to distance itself from the situation so that it may look at the options open to it. Instead, it remains salivating, totally focused on the object of its desire.

Delay of gratification, more specifically the degree to which we are able to delay gratification, is directly correlated with our abilities to carry on vision and purpose that transcends the present circumstance.
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