Re: Immortality

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



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