Re: virus: Re: Technology (was manifest science)

James Veverka (headbands@webtv.net)
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Joe, Since Chimps are able to recognize themselves in the mirror are they showing this recursivity and self/other conciousness in their society in a similar way as we do?....jim 

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> At the conclusion of a very thorough post was written:
>
> > The analogy to evolution is weak. Conscious direction of the process
> > makes the "evolution" of technology something rather different from
> > the evolution of organisms, or molecules.. it's hard enough to make
> > the analogy between memetic and biological evolution useful, despite
> > the (in my opinion) greater similarity..
> >
> > -Engan
>
> ...what is it, do you suppose, which differentiates the process of
> our consciousness from any other?
>
Dynamic interrelation and recursivity? Self(and other)-awareness, self(and other)-consciousness and self(and other)-reference?
>
> -psypher
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