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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