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Whacky, it varies according to coffee consumption, I suspect.
posted by
Ciel
on July 3, 2006 at 6:54 AM
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Hummm...that could be interesting.
Considering that humans don't use 80% of our brains, or is it 85%?
posted by
Whacky
on June 29, 2006 at 3:27 PM
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Dear Ciel , A complexity of intellectualism.---Karldean.
posted by
Karldean
on June 29, 2006 at 11:23 AM
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TVblogger-- this sounds like a relative of something that was being
explored in the 60s, I think: giving birth underwater, the Leboyer method. But it didn't have dolphins in it...
posted by
Ciel
on June 29, 2006 at 11:10 AM
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Mam-selle, you say 'animals' as if they are 'just' animals...
We can be viewed in the same way. Homo sapiens is an animal... but not 'just' an animal. So, where is the line to be drawn?
posted by
Ciel
on June 29, 2006 at 11:05 AM
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Mam'selle
Yesss ... we all spring from apes, but some of us are no good at jumping.
posted by
ariel70
on June 29, 2006 at 10:54 AM
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I have yet to be convinced that animals can provide any of the answers to humanity's key questions ...
Other than, perhaps, where to find the best rates on car insurance.
"We all evolved from apes ...
Only some much further than others."
posted by
Mademoiselle
on June 29, 2006 at 10:51 AM
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link
Oops, I guess link don't work in comments. Here's the site.
http://www.planetpuna.com/Birth&Dolphins/index.htm
posted by
TVBlogger
on June 29, 2006 at 10:46 AM
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Dolphin Midwifery
Have you heard of the dolphin birthing being done in some places? I couldn't find the website where I'd read about it before but somewhere it's out there. I did find this site about
dolphin birthing. Supposedly dolphins will naturally circle a pregnant woman as she gives birth in water. While I doubt there are any scientific studies, proponents say babies born by this method tend to be calmer, more emotionally stable and more intelligent. It does make you wonder.
posted by
TVBlogger
on June 29, 2006 at 10:45 AM
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Ciel
A very thoughtful post, thank you.
I challenge the notion that God created the world and the universe, but oone has to agree withyou that there are so many things ( such as the size of dolphins' brains ) that we don't understand.
I often sit on my terrace in the Andalucian sun, and i wonder how the world looks through the multi lensed eye of an insect. How would it feel to be endowed with a bat's echo-sounding capability, or the multiple senses of a shark?
Perhaps " lower" creatures have more smarts than us ; they just be.
posted by
ariel70
on June 29, 2006 at 10:07 AM
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In fact, Sannhet, we are mere children compared to dolphins
which reached their current state of evolvement somthing like 20 million years ago, whereas our oldest relative that could be called human is in single-digit millions. ( I don't know what the current fossil record indicates, but "Lucy" only goes back around 3 million years, and she was far from Homo sapiens, yet. )
posted by
Ciel
on June 29, 2006 at 10:06 AM
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Ciel -
I'm with you. There is way too much evidence to the contrary showing that "God" stopped creating after designing one feeble, arrogant, and intelligent species.
posted by
sannhet
on June 29, 2006 at 9:59 AM
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