I'm not quite sure what you mean by "significant". What I am saying is that value, significance and importance cannot be measured or even defined. It is pointless to talk about them as if they were absolute quantities. We CHOOSE the value and significance of things, that makes it no less important, but it is still chosen, not a physical property of the object or person. I love my family, I don't expect strangers to feel the same way about them. That doesn't make me better than them. The mind is what matters, the game, not the pieces and the board.
The universe is a collection of random atoms responding to laws and forces in a deterministic fashion. The only thing that matters to those of us who inhabit it is what we decide is important and of value. And it only matters to us. Placing an intrinsic value on objects and people is fetishism.
Space/Science » in reply to re: Des cartes before de horse
Significant chess-playing monkeys and English speaking whales who know God?
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