<< Subj: progress in evolution (answer to Rich Daniel)
Rich:
Do you believe that evolution always progresses upward (toward more
complexity)? Parasites often lose complexity as they evolve from
free-living organisms.
Bertvan:
*snip*
In mammals, evolution seems to have resulted in an
increasingly complex central nervous system, culminating in the complexity
of
human consciousness.
##### Are you implying that a human CNS is more complex than a cow's? In
what way? What is the measure of complexity? Are you implying that other
mammals are not 'conscious'? That they are not capable of abstraction?
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