From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Dec 09 2000 - 11:24:12 MST
Jason Joel Thompson <jasonjthompson@home.com> Wrote:
>My PERSONAL SUSPICION (as yet unfounded in light of our current
>understanding of the human brain,) is that our consciousness runs as an
>emergent sub-set of our current hardware and cannot be reduced to its
>components in an effective fashion.
If "emergent" is not just a euphemism for "magical" then this consciousness
generator of yours must be made of parts. If it's made of parts it can be studied
reductively.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:32:16 MST