From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 12:51:21 MDT
gts wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
>> This drive [to breathe] is merely a subroutine in the lower
>> reaches of the neural net that serves to maintain the body
>> I am currently using.
>
> You wrote to me in a previous message that you do not believe you are
> a "ghost in a machine."
>
> Yet your words above suggest very strongly that you do in fact believe
> you are a ghost in a machine.
### No, my words do not imply that. I do not believe in ghosts. Or vampires
and werewolves, either.
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>
> As someone else mentioned here today, this goes to the question of
> mind/body duality. Do you or do you not believe there is such a
> duality?
>
### In the context of Cartesianism it's irrelevant to the issue I addressed.
Rafal
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