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In article <283@homostudy.win-uk.net>, G K GRAY (gord@homostudy.win-uk.net) writes:
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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:
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>>> 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
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>Also "Consciousness Reconsidered" by the same, MIT Press
>
>Gord
Correction: Author is Owen Flanagan - has some of its chapters in
each of which he deals specifically with a single author, that for
Dennett probably clearest and most detailed.  Recommend reading
along with Dennett. Gord