Comments on: My life as a sponge

By: My disorientation | Dangerous Intersection

My disorientation | Dangerous Intersection — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:03:32 +0000

[...] also disoriented because some of my relatives were sponges. No, they didn’t look like sponges; they were sponges. And once cells figured out how to thrive together in that primitive sponge-like way, things [...]

By: Don’t stare at dead things or animals having sex. | Dangerous Intersection

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:18:22 +0000

[...] I visited the Body Worlds exhibit twice while it was in Chicago two years ago. The exhibition was breath-taking and educational. I plan to see Body Worlds III while it is in St. Louis. I plan to bring my kids (aged 7 and 9), because this is a terrific chance to learn about one of the most incredible phenomena on Earth—the human body. Viewing the body from the numerous perspectives offered by the exibitors, the question is not why it sometimes breaks down or dies. The real question is how it ever actually works, given its surreal complexity. There is no reason that human specimens should be viewable by anatomy students, but off-limits to the rest of us. Why has the viewing of dead humans become off-limits to most of us? There is probably no single reason, but it’s not because we aren’t interested in viewing dead bodies. I’ve long suspected that it’s due to a widespread reluctance to consider the undeniable fact that humans are animals. See here and here and here and here and here and here. [...]

By: We are gods with anuses: another look at “terror management theory.” | Dangerous Intersection

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:54:09 +0000

[...] human bodies. the uncanny sameness of humans, the predictability of personals ads, our relatedness to sponges, my own skeleton, my not-so-distant ancestors, (and here’s more about my not-necessarily [...]

By: Why are humans so repulsed by the idea that they are animals? | Dangerous Intersection

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:04:27 +0000

[...] for example, my posts on the uncanny sameness of humans, the predictability of personals ads, our relatedness to sponges, my own skeleton my not-so-distant ancestors, ubiquitous synonyms for poop the common aversion to [...]

By: Janus

Janus — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:05:51 +0000

However ‘Truth’ is determined by a show of hands…

By: Craug

Craug — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:52:21 +0000

Truth is not determined by a show of hands…

By: Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:33:28 +0000

Would you like to know more about the nervous system of the sponge? Go to Neurophilosophy.

Sea sponges are sedentary organisms that attach themselves to the sea bed and filter nutrients from the water that they force through their porous bodies with flagella. They are the most primitive of all multicellular animals, with just four different types of cells making up partially differentiated tissues in a simply organized body.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:06:59 +0000

Yana writes: “It made me consider the possibility of human-chimpanzee hybrids”

Interesting that you ask… Carl Zimmer reports that scientists now think that humans and chimpanzees did interbreed over a period of about 1 million years. They have been coined “humanzees”.

http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2007/04/12/meet_the_monkey_cousins.php

“One of the biggest surprises came when one team of researchers concluded that the ancestors of chimpanzees and humans interbred for over a million years, producing hybrid humanzees.”

By: michael

michael — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:06:19 +0000

We all came from the ONE. The highest form of man is his recognition of his union with the ultimate form of himself, which is the nature of his beginnings, or you, or us. or all of us. You are the same thing as me, and as long as you pretend you are not, All i can say is that I am just another human being like you, trying to make sense of our very short lives here on this planet, and just add that bit of glory that although I will die in my body, I will be with you all in my spirit.

By: michael

michael — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:52:15 +0000

if you actually want to know the truth let me tell you that the truth is already within you, and there is no way that it could ever had existed anywhere else! If you understood what I just said then you already know your own soul which of course is my soul also.