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LOL... you're a good troll. Here's a game for you: please precisely define the distinction between sensory processes and cognitive processes, and how exactly DS sufferers lack the latter. Or were you just some armchair bullshitter?

Fair warning, if you really want to have this debate, I'm probably out of your league.

>> ^gorillaman:

>> ^dag:
I believe sentience is a gray scale that extends well into the animal kingdom.
You can judge the character of a person by how they treat those that are weaker and less capable.

I think there's an argument to be made for one or more 'sentience thresholds' where the sum of an advanced intellect's understanding of the world, sense of itself, and capacity for abstract thought places it in a very different sphere of mentality to even slightly less able minds.
It's obvious that there's a distinction between non-thinking objects and any thinking creature at all, which would be the first threshold; I claim that humanity, or perhaps only the best of humanity, has cracked another.
It's a fact that compared to humans, animal brains are disproportionately devoted to sensory processing, etc. rather than cognition; which places us orders of magnitude ahead of them in our particular province, even with brains of apparently similar complexity. So there's a real gap there, rather than a smooth progression.
We have animal brains with a little extra cognitive grey matter stapled on top. That little bit seems to make all the difference. It's exciting to think where we'll be when we're able to create a lot more cognition, either biologically or electronically.
Now all of this may not have direct implications for damaged human brains, but it informs our understanding of intelligence generally.
I feel that the error being made by say, vegetarians who claim that 'an animal has just as much right to exist as a person', and similarly sincere but misguided retard-guardians is that they fail to account for these extremely important distinctions.

Retard jokes are my rape jokes (go for it though, doesn't really bother me, just not that funny). My aunt has DS. She is high functioning like the folks in this video, holds a job, helps around the house, etc. For that we're blessed. However, I'd argue that this video doesn't do the best job of showing the full spectrum of downs. Everyone in this video is very high functioning, and it isn't always like that. I've met some DS people that really need help to do even the most basic tasks. Often, it's nearly impossible to get much more than a word or two out of them, and they can be extremely irritable. The high functioning folks can manage their lives, but it would be a mistake to assume they are all as capable as these folks.

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OMG!! Even funnier than I imagined! Thank you so much for finding this Dan ... it made my day =o)

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Double Ds - The girl should have had Double "D"s - as part of the skit of course.

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>> ^Yogi:

>> ^NetRunner:
>> ^enon:
Gotta love DS research team

I know, right? Thing is, I bet this wasn't at all hard for them to find.
Isn't it weird how so-called "news" organizations never point this kind of stuff out?
It's like they're afraid of being called "biased" anytime they call a Republican out for lying or something.

I don't care if they do it for republicans...I want them to do it for EVERYONE! Do some fucking Journalism you fucking idiots.


They're happy to do it to Democrats, even if they're not actually lying.

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^enon:
Gotta love DS research team

I know, right? Thing is, I bet this wasn't at all hard for them to find.
Isn't it weird how so-called "news" organizations never point this kind of stuff out?
It's like they're afraid of being called "biased" anytime they call a Republican out for lying or something.


I don't care if they do it for republicans...I want them to do it for EVERYONE! Do some fucking Journalism you fucking idiots.

>> ^enon:

Gotta love DS research team


I know, right? Thing is, I bet this wasn't at all hard for them to find.

Isn't it weird how so-called "news" organizations never point this kind of stuff out?

It's like they're afraid of being called "biased" anytime they call a Republican out for lying or something.