Gerard Wood

[Gerard Wood]

That may be. I like to think of the earth as an egg with human beings as cells of an organism that is growing. If we are lucky we will be able to hatch into the universe after we have consumed our resources and fouled our environment. If we’re not we will die. Like the chicken that doesn’t develop properly. The universe will care even less about the human race than we care about the chick that doesn’t make it.

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[Gerard Wood]

Thanks for the friend invite Belle Rose. I consider it an honor. I think you are an intelligent, capable person and I hope you persevere and get some luck to accomplish your goals.

[Gerard Wood]

@Unseen – Just a grunt or maybe a middle finger? I can’t see any way other than body language. I imagine that body size might make a difference. I really don’t know. I have seen animals react and size doesn’t seem to matter. How could one communicate any concept without language?

• This reply was modified 10 years, 8 months ago by Gerard Wood.

[Gerard Wood]

I agree with what you are saying. We don’t know what will happen tomorrow but we like to think that we have some control. I also think that animals can think to some degree. I lived on a beach in Nova Scotia for about five months with nothing to do. I fed the birds and watched their interactions. Crows seemed to be the most intelligent of them all. They seemed to have a society in which each member was assigned a different role. I could recognize the dominant ones and they seemed to be controlling the flock. They displayed a wild sort of cooperation where the dominant members had some control but every bird was still trying to get the most in every situation. Their vocalizations indicated quite complex communications.

[Gerard Wood]

Hi Belle Rose. I’ve enjoyed your posts also. I admire the way that you could examine your beliefs and change yourself.
I like the idea that says that evolving is not better. It makes so that things change and become what they are. Without all these words that make up our language, how would we even be able to think about anything.

[Gerard Wood]

Thanks PopeBeanie. I’ve enjoyed many of your posts. I think that you agree with me that animals cannot envision the concepts that words enable us to. I just think that if we didn’t know certain words, we would not be even able to think of the concepts that they represent. For example – If someone had told you to Google something in 1970. Would you have been able to make sense of it at all? This seems to show that our language is evolving and because we have words that trigger concepts in different ways, we are thinking differently. Is that a little like a computer system that is programming itself?

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