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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (75201)	2/25/2000 10:01:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

>You think if Stanley Kubrick had known about bonobos, the apes in 2001 would have made love, not war?< I think that was "Eyes Wide Shut".

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (75201)	2/25/2000 10:26:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Dan, I really should read the whole of that Atlantic article before responding, but since I don't have the time I will respond to the excerpt you supply, even though the full article may anticipate/respond to my objections. The author clearly knows his genetics. But that does not mean that he and his fellow anti-anthropomorphicists (my neologism)know anything more than you or I or anyone else about the philosophical issues he raises. The point is that for years it was assumed that all animal behavior was "purely instinctive"; that animals could, by definition, have no "feelings," because they could not use language, and hence could not "think." That is not a scientifically demonstrated truth; it is a philosophical position. And in recent years, it has been in retreat. Seems to me the "naive" anthropomorphicists have been making a more cogent case than their detractors have. Joan