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Article #661Re: Just a bunch of chemicals with the illusion of life
From: Jeff Baldwin
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 00:00
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"dog" <dog@dog.net.uk> wrote: I received a virus from internet that wiped me out. I'm just coming back on line (slowly). I want to continue this thread but fear that I've missed something.... and I'm **WAY** behind schedule on other matters. I'll post in more detail later after recovery is complete. [...] >so forth. consciousness can thus be seen to be a reflective mechanism: you [...] Someone posted to me that consciousness is choices. That was a definition with a proactive nature. Yours is a definition with a passive nature. Active versus reactive. Interesting, is it not? I think you're both right.... and both quite mistaken in your conclusions based upon the limited and constricted definitions which you allow yourselves. More later. Jeff Baldwin
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10681a,49bda08ab926d96a X-Google-Attributes: gid10681a,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,49bda08ab926d96a X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public X-Google-Thread: 103560,49bda08ab926d96a X-Google-Attributes: gid103560,public From: mvcs@gramercy.ios.com (Jeff Baldwin) Subject: Re: Just a bunch of chemicals with the illusion of life Date: 1996/12/28 Message-ID: <5a46hc$bjf@nnrp1.farm.idt.net> X-Deja-AN: 206473056 references: <58tvfi$c1f@nnrp2.farm.idt.net> <Pine.SOL.L3.93.961216135235.1672C-100000@podsun18> <01bbedd7$fe23ef20$c3ec48c2@chrisb> organization: Mind & Vision Computer Systems newsgroups: sci.cognitive,sci.philosophy,bionet.neuroscience