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Re: Do you believe other creatures possess consciousness like us? [Re: GrizzlyBear]
    #14175141 - 03/24/11 11:05 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

I saw this a little while ago, it blew my mind:

Animal Planet - Growing Up Grizzly
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Jennifer Aniston stars in Growing Up Grizzly 2, a one-hour Animal Planet special event that brings viewers up-to-date with orphaned grizzly bears Bart and Honey-Bump, premiering Sunday, January 18 at 8 PM (ET/PT). The cubs were first introduced in Growing Up Grizzly, starring Brad Pitt, which airs immediately following Aniston's special at 9PM (ET/PT).

Aniston and Pitt got involved in the Growing Up Grizzly specials after Pitt worked with professional animal trainers Doug and Lynne Seus while filming Legends of the Fall. Bart and Honey-Bump were adopted by the Seuses after the bears' mother was killed by a hunter when they were cubs.

Growing Up Grizzly 2 picks up with Bart and Honey-Bump at three-and-a-half years old — happy, healthy adolescent bears who take a liking to Aniston. She bonds with the bears, runs them through some training drills for their professional acting jobs and leads viewers on a journey across the wild lands of the Northwest to explore the grizzly bears' struggle to survive in their ever-diminishing habitat.

"That was amazing," said Aniston after her first hands-on encounter with Bart. "Something intense...It really looks like you can get right down and roll around with them. I don't know why, but it makes you emotional."

Growing Up Grizzly 2 takes viewers to the set of Bart's big movie debut, follows wild grizzly bears on a hunt for salmon in the far reaches of Canada and enlightens viewers about the Seuses' dedication to preserving the grizzly habitat and protecting all wildlife through their non-profit Vital Ground.




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It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Do you believe other creatures possess consciousness like us? [Re: Poid] * 1
    #14175151 - 03/24/11 11:07 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)



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Re: Do you believe other creatures possess consciousness like us? [Re: Poid] * 1
    #14175158 - 03/24/11 11:08 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

I definitely think so.  My dog is in tune with my emotions; he can tell when I'm stressed, excited, nervous, etc.  Toby is good shit.  Oh and also conscious lol.  But also, what about Mushrooms?  I pasted Terence Mckenna's "Message from the Mushroom" below, it really highlights an interesting perspective on these life forms.  In fact, the largest/oldest living organism on our planet turned out to be a HUGE ass mycelium network before logging roads divided it up.  It is estimated to have been in existence for 2,200 years and thus has seen the forest living above it die off and regrow and die off again.  Pretty wild shit, no wonder they have so much to share with us!  Too bad they don't speak engirsh...or more like too bad we don't speak mycelian

"I am old, older than thought in your species, which is itself fifty times older than your history. Though I have been on earth for ages I am from the stars. My home is no one planet, for many worlds scattered through the shining disc of the galaxy have conditions which allow my spores an opportunity for life. The mushroom which you see is the part of my body given to sex thrills and sun bathing, my true body is a fine network of fibers growing through the soil. These networks may cover acres and may have far more connections that the number in a human brain. My mycelial network is nearly immortal, only the sudden toxification of a planet or the explosion of its parent star can wipe me out. By means impossible to explain because of certain misconceptions in your model of reality all my mycelial networks in the galaxy are in hyperlight communication across space and time. The mycelial body is as fragile as a spider’s web but the collective hypermind and memory is a vast historical archive of the career of evolving intelligence on many worlds in our spiral star swarm. Space, you see, is a vast ocean to those hardy life forms that have the ability to reproduce from spores, for spores are covered with the hardest organic substance known. Across the aeons of time and space drift many spore-forming life-forms in suspended animation for millions of years until contact is made with a suitable environment. Few such species are minded, only myself and my recently evolved near relatives have achieved the hyper-communication mode and memory capacity that makes us leading members in the community of galactic intelligence. How the hypercommunication mode operates is a secret which will not be lightly given to man. But the means should be obvious: it is the occurrence of psilocybin and psilocin in the biosynthetic pathways of my living body that opens for me and my symbiots the vision screens to many worlds. You as an individual and man as a species are on the brink of the formation of a symbiotic relationship with my genetic material that will eventually carry humanity and earth into the galactic mainstream of the higher civilizations.

Since it is not easy for you to recognize other varieties of intelligence around you, your most advanced theories of politics and society have advanced only as far as the notion of collectivism. But beyond the cohesion of the members of a species into a single social organism there lie richer and even more baroque evolutionary possibilities. Symbiosis is one of these. Symbiosis is a relation of mutual dependence and positive benefits for both of the species involved. Symbiotic relationships between myself and civilized forms of higher animals have been established many times and in many places throughout the long ages of my development. These relationships have been mutually useful; within my memory is the knowledge of hyperlight drive ships and how to build them. I will trade this knowledge for a free ticket to new worlds around suns younger and more stable than your own. To secure an eternal existence down the long river of cosmic time I again and again offer this agreement to higher beings and thereby have spread throughout the galaxy over the long millennia. A mycelial network has no organs to move the world, no hands; but higher animals with manipulative abilities can become partners with the star knowledge within me and if they act in good faith, return both themselves and their humble mushroom teacher to the million worlds all citizens of our starswarm are heir to.”


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Re: Do you believe other creatures possess consciousness like us? [Re: the bizzle] * 1
    #14175159 - 03/24/11 11:08 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)



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