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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (7492)	3/5/2001 6:20:38 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I do not see how it undermines man's place in the world....... No one can undermine man's place in the world. Who would try? It is what it is. We certainly have the ability (which I believe elicits the responsibility) to consider how that place affects others not of our kind. It is just an evolutionary step in the progress from beast to evolved creature. Perhaps not all people are ready to evolve. Man has not a single gene sequence that is unique to humans. That is a fact. So much for being "unique". As far as I can tell the only mechanism ever proposed that could make us unique is theological (and has many problems, IMO). I've argued that every molten rock contains a memory of what the rock was, and what it is now and in a way, destines that rock to become what it will become. As it turns to dirt, that history (read:information) is preserved and distributed. I am merely suggesting that distributed consciousness by a variety of means (some biological, some not) through a highly complicated nexus is probably in not man's purview alone. Seems a pretty reasonable interpretation of the world from what I can see.