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Originally Posted by TimMason
Wonderful stuff. First, behaviourist psychologists ordain that human activity should be analysed as if it were the activity of unicellular organisms. Then they throw their hands up in astonishment when they discover that unicellular organisms share numerous qualities with human beings.
What does the concept of 'purpose' entail? Imputing it to organisms that are not conscious is a metaphorical usage (for my part I would say the same thing of imputing it to an organism without language). If we employ the term strictly, can it really be applied to anything beyond the higher animals - or aliens?
Speaking of aliens, they are around us all the time; simply they are manifest in ways that our senses do not register. For their part, some of them have partial consciousness of our existence, which they, for the most part - and happily for us - regard as no more than a minor irritant. Others are blithely unaware of us, which is why you may, from time to time, have the distinct impression that someone is standing on your foot.
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Now you are making me think you're the same guy that on another forum claims he is communicating with aliens through a crystal in his brain. And they make him do thing like post on the internet to embarrass him.