Helena writes, in response to my MISplaced queer
>Do animals have consciousness? I don't know!!! Well....if
>"consciousness is
>co-extensive with language..." then at least I can see there's a
>conceptual
>problem here. Maybe we mean human consciousness. But even though I've
>read
>about animal language a bit myself -- bees, parrots, dolphins -- and I'd
>have
>to say, this is a topic I can't handle.
...and i wanted to write, first, THANK YOU for your honesty - what a
breath of fresh air. really. it is a complex area, consciousness, and i
appreciate your clarifying the venue you are interested in, re this
month's reading.
second, i want to say that i haven't really the right nor place to dis or
dismiss the interests of those who enjoy discussing this months reading, i
was rude, i think, not meaning to be especially, but i'd been thinking
this month's reading was by Leonte'ev,
and so of course i was surprised by the direction of the discussion.
if i've got nothing nice to say, better to say nothing at all.
mistakes and misplacements, all abounding, tsk tsk.
diane
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:point where everything listens.
and i slow down, learning how to
enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
(Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
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university of colorado, denver, school of education
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