The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #50442   Message #764927
Posted By: Amos
13-Aug-02 - 11:46 PM
Thread Name: A Mudcat's Mind at Work
Subject: RE: A Mudcat's Mind at Work
Cows are not vegetarian in structure, only in their diet. A different mix of parts indeed -- cellulose and chlorophyll, carbon-exchange; but there is some evidence (I've heard) for the quick intelligence of such life-forms (Backus, I think, Secret Life of Plants). So who knows? Domination would probably be a different proposition -- judging by all the antecedents it would not be through high mobility and striking blows, but perhaps by strong communities, deep roots and surviving higher and wider. We would not have to worry about money because we'd be covered by Social Sequoiaty.

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