i think you misunderstod what i said....Originally posted by belewfripp
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And, as Stan Schultz has mentioned, a tarantula he had with no usable legs or palps adapted its chelicerae as 'walking' organs and dragged itself around by its fangs. So, deprived of various body parts, Ts do have quite the ability to adapt.
any animal will use what it has ON its body to get nutrition, of course... I was saying that the higher brain functions allow us to use EXTERNAL items to help us out (monkeys with sticks to get ants, dolphins with hoops, humans with tools)...
i agree, there is a wrong confusion of the definition of memory, like i said before. Not all memories are used for a purpose, which is what i love about being human... nothing like remembering that beautiful sunset or your first kiss... you know what i mean Whats the point of it? no reason... you could say "oh its for your personal well being" but is it? it could be argued 'no'....
and also, the cerebral cortex = memory isnt the same as cerebral cortex = using our hands... And to me, yes it does mean FULLY that they can't do the same things we can.. i.e - thats why they cant speak. even if they had larynxes, they still need the BRAIN SOFTWARE/FXN to be able to speak. If if they could tell us they can remember, the need the BRAIN SOFTWARE/FXN to be able to remember. Even if they had the capacity to hold ralleys and learn to be racist and have opinions, they'd still need the tools to be able to translate. They just don't have higher brain functions. And by higher brain functions i don't mean that we're HIGHER up on the ladder, its just a term.. it means things like speech, memory, coginition, etc...
hey, we can all fly, right... we just don't have the tools to do it yet.
I can prove god doesn't (or does) exist, i just can't show you
why did we not evolve flippers? well we probably don't need them so often in the world we live in. Why did ants not evolve tails? well, they don't find the use in them.. why did tarantulas not evolve bigger brains? well, the probably had no use for them..
but this brings us to the question of self-similarity -- why do we even exist in the first place? but thats a WHOOOOLE other topic on a totally different board
im off to bed too!
peace
dave