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Re: A Question
« on: September 15, 2015, 08:43:57 am »
Crickets are an insect one hears in the summer.  Often in the old cartoons they were played when I was growing up (and TV was free), mostly in Looney Tunes, when someone is on a stage and the audience does not respond, we - the viewer - would hear these crickets.

It was a way of me letting you know I was scratching my head, wanting to respond, but am unable to do so.   Hence, the crickets ...



I suppose I should have explained that I did not want you to mistaken my lack of a response as an unwillingness to acknowledge your question.

A stone or a rock does not suffer consciousness.  Did you come across a passage in WWR where Schopenhauer compares what motivates a stone, such as the force of gravity, to the more complicated internal forces which motivate human beings and other animals?
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