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Animal Vegetable Mineral. Does every living "animal" THINK? Including microbes?

Posted - July 9, 2021
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  • 10636
    No.  Many act solely on instinct (especially microbes).  This is not to say that they can't learn.
      July 9, 2021 11:42 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    What is "instinct" Shuhak? Automatic reactions? And doesn't "learning"require thinking? Thank you for your reply! :)
      July 9, 2021 11:46 AM MDT
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  • 10636
    Instinct - an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli.
    (I am not saying that all animals or microbes don't think)

    No, leaning doesn't require thinking.  A bacteria doesn't think (it has no brain).  Yet if it keeps running into a "road block" it will change its path.  COVID(a virus) isn't thinking, yet it mutates to keep itself alive.
      July 9, 2021 12:28 PM MDT
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