[lbo-talk] Mirror neurons

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Wed Sep 5 19:02:45 PDT 2007


Carrol Cox wrote:


>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...
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>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.
>
How do you know?

Blake wrote "Where man is not, nature is barren." Which shows that even Blake can be wrong.

Joanna


> In fact,
>this is rather mawkish anthropomorphizing.
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>Carrol
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