Comments on: My life as a sponge http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/10/my-life-as-a-sponge/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:24:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: We are gods with anuses: another look at “terror management theory.” | Dangerous Intersection http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/10/my-life-as-a-sponge/#comment-31586 We are gods with anuses: another look at “terror management theory.” | Dangerous Intersection Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:54:09 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=231#comment-31586 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/10/my-life-as-a-sponge/#comment-31102 Why are humans so repulsed by the idea that they are animals? | Dangerous Intersection Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:04:27 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=231#comment-31102 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/10/my-life-as-a-sponge/#comment-23354 Janus Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:05:51 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=231#comment-23354 However 'Truth' is determined by a show of hands… However ‘Truth’ is determined by a show of hands…

]]> By: Craug http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/10/my-life-as-a-sponge/#comment-23314 Craug Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:52:21 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=231#comment-23314 Truth is not determined by a show of hands... Truth is not determined by a show of hands…

]]> By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/10/my-life-as-a-sponge/#comment-21973 Erich Vieth Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:33:28 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=231#comment-21973 Would you like to know more about the nervous system of the sponge? Go to <a href="http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/sea-sponges-have-the-makings-of-a-nervous-system/" rel="nofollow">Neurophilosophy. </a> 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. 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 http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/10/my-life-as-a-sponge/#comment-11873 Ben Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:06:59 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=231#comment-11873 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." 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 http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/10/my-life-as-a-sponge/#comment-10307 michael Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:06:19 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=231#comment-10307 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. 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 http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/10/my-life-as-a-sponge/#comment-10306 michael Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:52:15 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=231#comment-10306 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. 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.

]]> By: michael http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/10/my-life-as-a-sponge/#comment-10305 michael Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:39:15 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=231#comment-10305 Evolution is the purist form of understanding how it is that we are here. Science is the way that we seek to understand the reality of which we are a part. There is no such thing as superior or inferior outside of the human ego's need to feel that way. We are not just a part of nature, we are nature, and this realization makes my life worth living. Most of the chatter we hear comes due to the human games that we all play, most of us unaware that the universe will continue long after our species, but not us, are all gone. How can that be? Because we are nature, she is our reality. You and I will die someday, but our deepest reality lies within our souls which are at one with nature herself, or us ourselves. I love being with that truth. Why is that truth? The universe exploded about (depending upon the astronomers you talk to) about 15 billion years ago. Evolution is the purist form of understanding how it is that we are here. Science is the way that we seek to understand the reality of which we are a part. There is no such thing as superior or inferior outside of the human ego’s need to feel that way. We are not just a part of nature, we are nature, and this realization makes my life worth living.

Most of the chatter we hear comes due to the human games that we all play, most of us unaware that the universe will continue long after our species, but not us, are all gone. How can that be? Because we are nature, she is our reality. You and I will die someday, but our deepest reality lies within our souls which are at one with nature herself, or us ourselves. I love being with that truth.

Why is that truth? The universe exploded about (depending upon the astronomers you talk to) about 15 billion years ago.

]]> By: grumpypilgrim http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/10/my-life-as-a-sponge/#comment-2376 grumpypilgrim Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:20:10 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=231#comment-2376 Further to Yana's comment, horses and donkeys are just one example of hybrid species. Whale-dolphin hybrids -- unofficially known as wolphins -- are also known to occur both in nature and in captivity: http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/ap_050415_wolphin.html As regards human-chimp hybrids, I could make a joke about President Bush, but that would be too easy. Further to Yana’s comment, horses and donkeys are just one example of hybrid species. Whale-dolphin hybrids — unofficially known as wolphins — are also known to occur both in nature and in captivity:
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/ap_050415_wolphin.html

As regards human-chimp hybrids, I could make a joke about President Bush, but that would be too easy.

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