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does object permanency == living creature?
Replies: 43Last Post Mar. 28, 2007 12:13am by Thriftweed
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no 30 65%
i'm illiterate and can't figure out what object permancy is 11 23%
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Does an organism need to understand the concept of object permanency to be considered alive?

Post edited at 9:02 am on Jan. 7, 2007 by whoisabs

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i'm illiterate and can't figure out what object permancy is

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no

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Plants are alive and they have no brains to understand concepts at all.

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yea

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No, not at all. Most of the alive species don't have that.

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wat the fuck is object pregnency im thinking u mean your making your cabbage patch doll pregnent

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Yes I think so.

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No, babies don't understand object permanency for the first few months of life and I'm PRETTY sure they're alive.

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i would think no, yea pretty sure no

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How are they alive if they don't have mental capacities such as object permanency?

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Quote: from whoisabs at 5:05 pm on Jan. 7, 2007

How are they alive if they don't have mental capacities such as object permanency?

How else would you describe a 3-month old baby, if not alive?

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Quote: from whoisabs at 4:05 am on Jan. 8, 2007

How are they alive if they don't have mental capacities such as object permanency?

because the commonly accepted definition of life doesn't necessarily exclude those organisms without higher order thinking skills

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single-celled organisms = alive

not much mental capacity there, though.

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Quote: from whoisabs at 12:05 pm on Jan. 7, 2007

How are they alive if they don't have mental capacities such as object permanency?

1. Reproduce.
2. Have a metabolism.
3. Adapt to environment.
4. Grow.
5. Have homeostasis.

Those are (some of) the criteria.

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