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Subject: Re: RE:intelligence and adaptability
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Date: Fri, 4-Nov-83 18:36:33 EST
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Man is the toolmaker and the principle tooluser of all the living things
that we know of.  What does this mean?

Consider driving a car or skating.  When I do this, I have managed to
icorporate an external system into my own control system with its myriad
of pathways bot forward and backward.

This takes place at a level below that which usually is considered to
constitute intelligent thought.  On the other hand, we can adopt external
things into our thought-model of the world in a way which no other creature
seems to be capable of.

Is there any causal relationship here?

					Mark Terribile
					DOdN