From: Joseph Sterlynne (vxs@mailandnews.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 19:36:26 MST
>> Joseph Sterlynne
> QueeneMUSE
>> Consciousness is not some magic thing which floats around waiting to be
>> embodied in one brain or another. It is a result, in your current
>> organic brain, of a set of neurons performing some operation.
> That's like saying the meal is a result of the stove heating up the pot!
I should have been more careful about the word [result]; I was using it in a
much looser and probably inaccurate way.
> You're forgetting a whole series of chemical reactions - sometimes called
> "the soup'.
I'm including whatever chemical reactions there are in the process of
consciousness in the definition of said process.
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