Re: Mirror neurons
On Sep 6, 2007, at 7:27 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
Carrol Cox wrote:
My objection is your and Joanna’s implicit assumption (which I don’t think you hold — but your words surely carry it) that your judgments are valid from some perspective “outside” human perception and judgment — that there is/would be something beautiful about the B-Minor or
the arc of a dolphin even if humans did not exist. Both of you anthropomorphize the Cosmos itself.There’s a whole tradition in thought, a tradition to which Marx belongs, that makes this assumption.
“You call it rain but the human name doesn’t mean shit to a tree.” - Jefferson Airplane