Incredible Octopus Behavior Nearly Caused Scientist To Drown From Laughing

[ellennelle]

30. how kind

of you to establish 'intelligence' as the criterion for not eating something.

may i therefore recommend you read michael pollen's 12/23/14 article on plant intelligence.



i'm not being cheeky; it's not that a creature might have intelligence that should give us pause, and at least arouse awe and inspiration and humility. it's simply that it is alive.

because, after all, if something survives, there is some kind of intelligence that sustains it. it must learn and remember what is learned.

not a complex notion at all.

and there have been reports of saints the world over who lived without food for many many years.

air and water.

could we love the planet so much that we make such a sacrifice that would mean infinite gentleness for her?