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Subject: Re: Life imitates art?
Message-ID: <8219@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 08:44:04 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  8 08:44:04 1987
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Keywords: Missing dimension,intelligent life,godlike
Xref: utgpu sci.research:144 sci.med:2040 talk.rumors:755 misc.headlines:631
Summary: Horatio has more senses than most of us dream of.

In article <227@scubed.UUCP>, nobody@scubed.UUCP (Pseudo news poster) writes:
> In article <2096@cxsea.UUCP> douglas@cxsea.UUCP (Douglas Wells) writes:
> >In article <224@scubed.UUCP> warner@kelvin.UUCP (Ken Warner) writes:
> >+In article <225@chemstor.UUCP> bob@chemstor.UUCP (Bob Weigel) writes:
> >+>... but he made man in his image.  ( With a free will too!)  Somehow, that
> >+>seems to fit reality a little better in view of who I am.  But keep on
> >+>matching those Chromosomes! 
> >+I wonder what an Orcinus orca would think of that viewpoint. 
> >
> >How do you know that Orcinus orca can think?
> 
> Well, I wuz just talkin' to Shamu. We were sitting around tossing back
> a few anchovies and I asked him, "Whaddayathink God looks like?". 
> He was basically non-committal and said, "My daddy tol' me never to discuss
> politics, religion or whether sealions taste better than cod." 
> 
> Then he sort of winked at me over the edge of his fish bucket and said, "I do
> wonder about the utility of being bi-pedal in a limitless void."

There are those who can understand sea mammals, and those of us
who always draw a blank when, devoutly and seriously, we beseech
them. Of course, maybe its those extra senses. The
funny-mentalists and animal talkers all tell me that listening
with my ears is not enough, but that I must also listen with my
heart. Try as I might, and despite the sounds it makes, my heart
never hears a thing.

Lately, I've heard of psychic surgeons. (Or was it sturgeons?
I'll have to Shamu.) They have a very well developed sight. With
their fingers of course. Some of the funny-mentalists claim to
have an inner sight. Maybe this is from misplaced fingers. If I
can ever get one to hold in one (philosophical) stance long
enough, I'll perform a dissection, looking in particular for any
digits protuding from the thalamus and tickling the mammilary
bodies. This would explain a lot, especially why they don't want
to restrict empirical discussion to the normal senses.

I do not mean to denigrate the obvious intelligence of whales.
Most have a lot of fun, and they do not hypothesize supernatural
beings that they then take most seriously. (Just ask them!)

Any gods who are offended can settle the score with me
personally, as long as they continue to use only sensory channels
I seem to lack.

Russell