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Gelfling
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@luvtub – A kindred spirit! I call it specism (akin to racism).

It is always fun for me to ask the question, How will people look at ___ in two hundred years? Since I taught psychology (and it’s such a young field) it was always a fun question to bring up. There’s a lot of room for imagination because we have are still relatively clueless about human behavior (particularly the causes). On a wider scale, when I ask myself how people will look us in 200 years, I think people will judge us most harshly about our selfish and negligent stewardship of the planet.  But in 2000 years I hope that our descendents will look at us  judging other beings as less than ourselves, and wonder why we did not see that is one step away from abuse and genocide. By then, after we have run through the resources for the planet, it is likely that they will have found tasty alternatives.

I am curious. Animals are not supposed to be able to think abstractly. When you see “abstract thinking” what do you notice? The most recent example for me is the concept of a window. When I say window, in the car or in the house, my dog knows what that means.

Back to a more important topic– yesterday I actually had two Carbonite melts yielding useful characters. Not enough characters, but useful ones. Woo hoo! At this rate I’ll finish this game in three years.