Re: I need help with a paradox. not a trick question, i do not knowthe answer

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

> yes, i'm familiar with the concept of dna, and with the "genome
> project."  also a little bit with anthropology and linguistic systems,
> both of which have highly deliciously suggested that reflexive
> consciousness (a main constituent of homo sapien) could well have
> occurred at different times on the planet independently of each other.

Consciousness, reflexive or otherwise, isn't what links us on the family
tree.  DNA is what does that.  A fish could very well develop
consciousness, but it's not going to produce offspring with any of us.

> meaning, as an "evolutionist," i do not necessarily believe that we all
> are derived from a common ancestor and therefore related . . .

And yet evolutionary studies seem to be pointing that way.  Funny, that.

> . . . just that we should make everyone's time on this big blue marble
> as good as possible.

Irrelevant, non-scientific non sequitur.

> if we derive from a common ancestor, it is probably one that existed
> prior to the breakdown of the bicameral mind; in short, a less advanced
> mammalian state.

And this is supposed to make a difference *how*?

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