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- From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: Re: Eating our other world friends & enemies
- Message-ID: <STEINLY.92Jul29142135@topaz.ucsc.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 21:21:35 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.094005.8843@oracle.us.oracle.com> <m5km1g-.xtifr@netcom.com>
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- In-reply-to: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk's message of 29 Jul 92 08:30:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.083026.18881@cs.hw.ac.uk> adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt) writes:
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- In article <1992Jul27.035713.24540@oracle.us.oracle.com> mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
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- >I would argue that we have conclusive evidence that dolphins are not
- >intelligent. They have not made a significant attempt to communicate
- >with us despite the large numbers of them that we kill via things like
- >tuna fishing.
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- Humans have made no significant attempt to communicate with bacteria,
- despite the large numbers of humans that bacteria kill via a variety
- of diseases. What does that say about human intelligence?
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- Not true. I shout at them frequently to stop ;-)
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- More seriously, there have been for example experiments on tropisms
- in micro-organisms which involved controlling the movements of
- bacteria I believe - which makes for some communication - at least
- if I felt an uncontrollable urge to move back and forth rapidly
- _I_'d be tempted to look for the external cause...
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- * Just because there's a reason *
- * Doesn't mean it's understood Specials, 1979 *
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