A Conversation for Heidegger's Ultimate Question - the original revised version
Ape based. . .
Henry Started conversation Sep 9, 2001
Hi Grimethorpe. I think this should probably go into the guide *as is*, before people start asking for changes or more data. Simple fact is that it was supposed to be simple.
Why Ape Based?
It seems there is a useful upper limit to what a turtle can comprehend (although I would be delighted to be proved wrong on this), and a useful upper limit to what a snake, monkey, dolphin, etc... etc.... can comprehend. To try to fit into this world, we are slowly coming to terms with the fact that we are merely another evolving species, as opposed to being divinely slotted in at the end. So it follows that there will be a useful upper limit to what a Homonid or any member of the ape family can understand. So I think the best, and possibly only (ape-based) answer to the (ape generated) question - "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is "Why not?"
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