Sunday, May 23, 2004
Do Animals Think
Day No.2 of my Blogging life.
Found another competition in the New Straits Times. Write an essay on the question: Do Animals Think? Wonder if KenJay would be interested. It also got me wondering, do Animals think? I could be cheeky and say yes, animals do think. Humans are basically animals, and humans are capable of thinking, therefore animals do think.
You know, the principle of humans = animals, humans - think, therefore animals - think.
Right? Then what is there to argue.
So I decided to redefine everything. According to the Oxford Students Dictionary, ‘ANIMAL’ is defined as a living thing that can feel and move about, from the tiniest paramecium to us humans and to the gigantic blue whale. We known humans do think, and maybe the blue whale do think. But the bacteria? Can't see myself looking at a bacteria thru a microscope and the bacteria looking back at me thinking, "What a huge asshole!!" Or maybe not.
And then there is defining the word 'think'. Is it the ability to follow one’s senses and needs to perform tasks? Or are you defining it in the concept of Man – the ability to use the mind to make logical and sound decisions, to know what’s right and wrong?
Read an article somewhere that states how could animals not think and manage to survive in the world? Hmm... it gets me thinking too. Some people actually believes that their dogs and cats possess superintelligent powers. So I look at my dog and when he barks, he is actually telling me "Hey, I'm smarter than you, you know? You don't even understand me while I can understand you." Ouch! If that is what my dog's telling me, then screw him. God gave me dominiance over him.
Coming back to the question of do Animals think? Will sleep on it tonight, type the article tmr and maybe post it on somewhere.
You must be wondering why am I so free, with Summative 2 looming ahead. Well, tis becos I lost my files along with my notes. Thought it was at home, but in reality, it must be sitting in a box in the Lost and Found corner of the S.A.D. Damn sad man. Can only read neoplasia notes.
About kickboxing. Talk about really hitting sth hard. The instructor, this really familiar looking guy name Akira (me thinks he looks like Takeshi Kaneshiro slightly. Must be playing to much onimusha3) He was shouting, more power. And the first face that came to mind was Peter Pook. So with Pook's face on the bag, whallop. The bag went flying. Now that's power. And the kicking. Damn tiring. When we do a front push(ie front kick), we are supposed to aim for the midsection of the bag. But with my short legs and all, managed to kick the lower part of the bag, ie the groin area. For me, that's enough self-defence.
Anyway, it was fun, so Zhi Yi's safe. Planning to go as a regular after Sum2.
Signing off with another quote about my life.
Life... Dreams... Hope...
Where'd they come from...
And where are they headed?
These things... I am going to destroy!
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