From: Steyr@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: Are we alive ?
Date: Sat Mar  5 01:51:16 1994

OK then ... here's something which has rattled around my mind 
occasionally.

Is the human body really a single living entity, or could we compare 
ourselves to, say, a nest of ants .... with individual cells within our 
body corresponding to an ant in the nest ... all working together to 
achive common goals.  Are we really alive or are we just an association 
between cells ?  Could a nest or hive of insects be considered a single 
entity ?  

On the other end of the scale ... perhaps we are just a tiny part of a 
much larger living entity called Earth ... or perhaps the galaxy.  Could 
we perhaps be to the Earth as a single cell is to us ?  Does the Earth 
have it's own thought patterns on a level which we cannot comprehend ?

OK.  Enough weirdness for one day.  Let me know what you think.  Am I 
really a kook ?