You sort of contradicted yourself there. How do you know the jellyfish doesn't feel those things? Especially after saying I have no way of knowing how animals feel about certain things.
I don't see why oblivion is the only other option.
In other words, you're saying all those positive...
The gazelle certainly doesn't enjoy it. And the cheetah doesn't enjoy a failed hunt. Nor does it enjoy getting it's successful kill stolen 90% of the time.
But this is besides the point. The point is, the cheetah is fast in order to catch the gazelle. The gazelle is fast in order to evade the...
I had a feeling he was someone like that. But what does POE stand for though? I'm just curious, and google isn't giving me a clear answer.
Anyway, I don't see a point in replying to voiceofgod. Anything said to him will be wasted energy and he'll just continue on with his persona.
Wanna bet? Visit a neuroscientist and have him hook you up with the proper equipment. Document the whole thing with a video camera.
Of course you won't do that though. You'd hate discover your worldview is completely delusional.
Actually they can. They can predict your choice several seconds before you make it. Or rather, before you realize you already made the choice. You're stooping low enough to call them liars without even looking into the field of neuroscience, because you hate the idea of your personal world view...
It's rather very asymmetrical. There's far more suffering in nature than there is pleasure and enjoyment. In fact, suffering, harshness, fighting and killing are seemingly integral while pleasure is just something an organism is lucky to experience from time to time. It's so integral that you...
I don't have all the answers, but the point is, I don't need to. It doesn't help your point. You're asking these questions as a way of arguing a point. That's argument from ignorance.