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Elaboration 55

Foresight, is typically such a manifestation of man's extra degree of freedom. While animals cannot 'ideate' for more than a few seconds in their future, man can even fantasize all possible futures, reason-out what would happen, take measures for all cases, etc. This is beyond animal ideation. It is why animals never go and put seeds in the soil in order to have a harvest a season later. The seemingly contradiction in this, by animals that hoard nuts and the like, is not a sign of fore-sight, of third degree of freedom, but mere acquired instinct, i.e. they would remain doing it when we tell them it is no longer necessary.

Ven 2007-09-11