AuthorTopic: Why must everything be so complicated?  (Read 724 times)

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Re: Why must everything be so complicated?
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2010, 11:50:37 pm »
'we don't really know that stones don't think.'

Well yes we do, because we can define "think" and determine that stones do or don't do anything that fits that definition.

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Re: Why must everything be so complicated?
« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2010, 03:12:04 am »
let's say that rocks don't exhibit the type of behaviour that we associate with thinking
therefore, if anyone still insist that rocks think, that person must be using a different definition of what amounts to "thinking"
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Re: Why must everything be so complicated?
« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2010, 09:35:44 am »
I'm having a de ja vue (no spelling corretions please): yet again it all comes down to the definition of certain words... and everything is relative yet again...
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