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You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Dec 15th, 2009 at 05:05:34 PM EST
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by ATinNM on Tue Dec 15th, 2009 at 06:57:05 PM EST
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shouldnt that self portrait be here?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Dec 15th, 2009 at 07:03:48 PM EST
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I operate on a context sensitive, Real Time, Stimulus/Reaction basis.  
by ATinNM on Tue Dec 15th, 2009 at 07:11:41 PM EST
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ATinNM:
I operate on a context sensitive, Real Time, Stimulus/Reaction basis

thanks for providing the succinct definition of 'sentient being' i've searched for for quite a while!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Dec 17th, 2009 at 09:59:50 AM EST
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Like a cabbage?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Dec 17th, 2009 at 10:03:47 AM EST
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So, Taxis and Tropism are evidence of sentience?
A taxis (plural taxes, pronounced ˈtæksiːz) is an innate behavioral response by an organism to a directional stimulus or gradient of stimulus intensity. A taxis differs from a tropism (turning response, often growth towards or away from a stimulus) in that the organism has motility and demonstrates guided movement towards or away from the stimulus source [1][2]. It is sometimes distinguished from a kinesis, a non-directional change in activity in response to a stimulus that results in the migration toward or away from a stimulus.


En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 17th, 2009 at 10:23:29 AM EST
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i said 'succinct', not 'succulent'!

as for cabbages being sentient, most of the time i wouldn't know, the rest of the time i'm non-verbal, so if i did know, i couldn't tell you.

i guess i lack the necessary presumption for assumption, this time...

didn't 'the secret life of plants' scientifically show us plants are sentient, anyway?

i happen to dig cabbage, a lot.

(and muddy work it can be, too)

:)

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Dec 17th, 2009 at 04:54:45 PM EST
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