From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 03:24:02 MDT
It appears as if Max More <max@maxmore.com> wrote:
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|At 12:37 PM 5/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
I suggest `you' <max@maxmore.com> actually say WHO this `you' might be
next time you quote. After all, General Semantics teaches us that you[1]
and you[2] might well be quite different entities.
|> "Consciousness is what makes us 'human,' Professor McFadden said.
|>"Language, creativity, emotions, spirituality, logical deduction, mental
|>arithmetic, our sense of fairness, truth, ethics, are all inconceivable
|>without
|>consciousness." But what's it made of?
|
|Gosh, great question! While you're at it, answer this one:
|What is the number 4 made of?
|
|All I know is that blue fnords snore transcendentally.
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|This piece sounds silly -- the brain's EM field will be an epiphenomenon to
|neural activity.
One cannot easily use `neural activity' for measurement, as EEG use shows.
But the resulting EM field can. What I really would like to know: how does
the resulting field generate a `consciousness', esp. a global one, assuming,
as `you' did, that it does.
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