Ken,
> I just re-read your message and could not find your "announcement of
> intention to anthropomorphize". Could you give a quote, please?
I might have used "quotes" around my word, "gladly", to make it clear to the
obnoxious that the word "gladly" was bracketed. Instead I wrote the
following near the beginning of that message:
>> (Like you I use quotes because it is difficult to speak of a "goal"
>> or "purpose" of evolution when evolution does not in reality have
>> purpose, but I will stop with the quotes because it makes for
>> awkward reading.)
But you missed it or ignored it.
Casual discussion of evolution is often riddled with such anthropomorphisms.
It is natural to speak as if adaptive behaviors like those of the praying
mantis are "purposeful" and that bugs are "glad" to act according to their
intincts. We know such words are used only for the sake of illustration.
-gts
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Stuart" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [P-F] Optimal Health
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:40:14 -0500, gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >I specifically announced my intention to anthropomorphize, Ken. Perhaps
you
> >should read more closely, and contribute something of use to the
discussion.
>
> I just re-read your message and could not find your "announcement of
intention
> to anthropomorphize". Could you give a quote, please?
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Ken Stuart" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 11:00 PM
> >Subject: Re: [P-F] Optimal Health
> >
> >
> >> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:35:51 -0500, gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >The female devours her mate's head,
> >> >which he gladly sacrifices as food to help nourish the fertilized egg.
> >>
> >> A little bit of "projection" is going on here with the use of the word
> >"gladly".
> >>
> >> Don't take those PBS "Nature" programs quite so seriously... :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Ken
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Ken
> [log in to unmask]
>
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