panthera
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I thought this little essay summed the matter up rather well.
I don't know the author otherwise, nor have I yet had time to read his counterpart in the discussion.
What I do know is Caleb has here managed to express something I have long known to be true: Deciding to be as opposed to merely existing is what denotes sentience. Even when the resulting actions turn out to be the same.
My new word of the day: Lemma. a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition
http://www.steamthing.com/2009/10/against-repressive-antisentimentalism.html
I don't know the author otherwise, nor have I yet had time to read his counterpart in the discussion.
What I do know is Caleb has here managed to express something I have long known to be true: Deciding to be as opposed to merely existing is what denotes sentience. Even when the resulting actions turn out to be the same.
My new word of the day: Lemma. a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition
http://www.steamthing.com/2009/10/against-repressive-antisentimentalism.html
