[Matchett-PI]

"Your reference posits an infinite gap between animal and human consciousness. I have played with dolphins in the wild. They are as aware of life and their existence as I am. In the ocean I am the poor crippled blind idiot compared to them."

No doubt you also believe that dolphins get jokes and understand baseball, too.

I have no inclination whatsoever to argue with someone who insists that he is simply the expression of his selfish genes. What can I say? Your genes won.

You wrote: "Life, in all its forms, is the same and it all traces back to if not one, then a few single sources."

That was true - up to a certain point.

[LeGrande]

No doubt you also believe that dolphins get jokes and understand baseball, too.

Baseball is a stretch, but dolphins certainly communicate and play. I have seen a silverback gorilla pinch a female gorilla and then pretend that it wasn't him. Clearly a sense of humor.