My apologies, Morticia, if I seemed in any way to rebuff you. And thanks MT, for saying it as you saw it. A refreshing trasit.

No offense intended. The "Crick school of core materialism" was a badly turned phrase of my own. I meant those who espouse hard-core materialism as their sole philosophy, holding that all knowing must come from nerves, brains, cells and molecules. This school of thought was championed by Francis Crick of DNA fame; he wrote a book shortly before he dies called The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul. (New York: Charles Scribner s Sons. Koch, Christof and Crick, Francis ), which asserts this belief and relgates such spiritual notions as intuition (and "integrity" and maybe even honor, justive, beauty and all them great and wonderful attributes) to biochemical snap-crackle-and-pop.

I think it is much more likely that cats would be able to see and know each other remotely, using non-physical abilities, than it that people would, given that people are hammered into semiotic forms of thought from an early age and therefore tend to build wallks of symbols around their natural abilities. Just my NSHO.

Regards,

A