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Article #671Re: Just a bunch of chemicals with the illusion of life
From: G K GRAY
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 00:00
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In article <staring-1412960740180001@smisch.tiac.net>, Samson (staring@my.screen) writes: >In article <58tvfi$c1f@nnrp2.farm.idt.net>, mvcs@gramercy.ios.com (Jeff >Baldwin) wrote: > >> Given: Life/conciousness/mind is nothing more than chemical reactions. >> Then: >> 1) Why/how did/does subjective perception "come to be"? >> 2) If mind and all its attributes are mere checmical reactions with >> deterministic, material (and therefore objective) origin, then why >> does subjective perception at times differ (and markedly so) from >> objective reality? >> 3) Why does "the subjective" (in humans only?) strive to "objectify" >> itself? > >Read Dennett's _Conciousness Explained_ for some good (pseudo)answers to >all these questions and more... > >-- >smisch@tiac.net (emoticons implied by context) > >'Where in the world are lunatics allowed to bathe naked in the moonlight?' -- R.D. Laing Also "Consciousness Reconsidered" by the same, MIT Press Gord
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10681a,49bda08ab926d96a X-Google-Attributes: gid10681a,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,49bda08ab926d96a X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public X-Google-Thread: 103560,49bda08ab926d96a X-Google-Attributes: gid103560,public From: gord@homostudy.win-uk.net (G K GRAY) Subject: Re: Just a bunch of chemicals with the illusion of life Date: 1996/12/14 Message-ID: <283@homostudy.win-uk.net> X-Deja-AN: 204228367 references: <58tvfi$c1f@nnrp2.farm.idt.net><staring-1412960740180001@smisch.tiac.net> reply-to: gord@homostudy.win-uk.net (G K GRAY) newsgroups: sci.cognitive,sci.philosophy,bionet.neuroscience