[lbo-talk] Mirror neurons

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Sep 5 18:35:26 PDT 2007


joanna wrote:
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> Animals create beauty all the time -- spider webs, bird and whale song,
> honey combs.....a bird in flight, a dolphin arc, an otter at play...

A certain amount of vulgar intelligence is useful in reacting to the world. Your observations here have exactly the same content as Doug's on the B-minor -- species-centric praise of human superiority: for those things are only beautiful from a human perspective of beauty. In fact, this is rather mawkish anthropomorphizing.

Carrol



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