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<blockquote data-quote="markdneck" data-source="post: 33358" data-attributes="member: 1111"><p>"The line which demarcates the instinct of the brute creation from the boasted reason of man, is, beyond doubt, of the most shadowy and unsatisfactory character--a boundary line far more difficult to settle than even the North-Eastern or the Oregon. The question whether the lower animals do or do not reason, will possibly never be decided--certainly never in our present condition of knowledge. While the self-love and arrogance of man will persist in denying the reflective power to beasts, because the granting it seems to derogate from his own vaunted supremacy, he yet perpetually finds himself involved in the paradox of decrying instinct as an inferior faculty, while he is forced to admit its infinite superiority, in a thousand cases, over the very reason which he claims exclusively as his own. Instinct, so far from being an inferior reason, is perhaps the most exalted intellect of all. It will appear to the true philosopher, as the divine mind itself acting immediately upon its creatures."</p><p></p><p>So if a spider designs a web that fits the local trees and plants, is configured best for the available prey and faces the prevailing breeze just right ... that is "instinct" yet if a human engineer, if he could do as well, did the same ... that is IQ? Figuring and planning whether Mantid or cat or person are the same. We just talk about it better!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="markdneck, post: 33358, member: 1111"] "The line which demarcates the instinct of the brute creation from the boasted reason of man, is, beyond doubt, of the most shadowy and unsatisfactory character--a boundary line far more difficult to settle than even the North-Eastern or the Oregon. The question whether the lower animals do or do not reason, will possibly never be decided--certainly never in our present condition of knowledge. While the self-love and arrogance of man will persist in denying the reflective power to beasts, because the granting it seems to derogate from his own vaunted supremacy, he yet perpetually finds himself involved in the paradox of decrying instinct as an inferior faculty, while he is forced to admit its infinite superiority, in a thousand cases, over the very reason which he claims exclusively as his own. Instinct, so far from being an inferior reason, is perhaps the most exalted intellect of all. It will appear to the true philosopher, as the divine mind itself acting immediately upon its creatures." So if a spider designs a web that fits the local trees and plants, is configured best for the available prey and faces the prevailing breeze just right ... that is "instinct" yet if a human engineer, if he could do as well, did the same ... that is IQ? Figuring and planning whether Mantid or cat or person are the same. We just talk about it better! [/QUOTE]
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