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So can other animals.
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You can use a tool.
So can lots of other animals.
O yeah, tell your cat to send me an e-mail, could use some insight on his feelings about the meaning of life.
Jokes aside,
you have to be joking to actually argue this stuff.
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But that's due to your religious view.
Really, how do you know?
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"Experience of the outside world" is EXACTLY what science is all about.
Do you apply the scientific method when seeking out meaning and truth in this life?
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No, that's just a philosophy that is all inside your own head.
So, you don't think that what actions I do matter? That what I do makes a difference, and effects the rest of the world no matter the size? Though what one does, life, reality as we know it changes, for them and us.
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Why do you think animals function like robots?
What they do has less meaning, it sort of becomes tasks performed again and again, with less variation than the actions of humans, although humans sort of develop routines and become working robots themselves, what goes on is not only the task at hand.
What makes you want to see other animals as equals? That can't be true, they can be fun, and helpers, but beyond that they are more a part of nature, that we simply cannot be apart of. We are outside of it, and have built barriers, although it leaks through and remains still very much a part of us, we are still seperated.
What does OTOH mean?
The escape exists within ourselves, not within the bank account's numbers of papers.