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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (3262)	11/9/2000 4:18:01 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

From that you make inferences from function. It's not a big leap. Think of a fly's eye as a bundle of telescopes each aimed at a different point on the hemisphere. It is not an imaging system except as a collection of pixels. That is how it is designed. Sure, the fly's processor might integrate the tessellations into a smooth sphere. But what is depicted in the movies is an array of perfect little images. Nuh-uh. That's impossible. It just isn't built (designed?) that way. My friend can catch dragonflies by using a screw motion with his hands which defeats their "fear" algorithm. He releases them unharmed. I don't think they have "deep thoughts". They're like really cool little robots, but that's about it, IMO. But I still think they feel pain and should be respected.