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In article <35s56r$t3t@portal.gmu.edu>,
HARRY R. ERWIN <herwin@mason1.gmu.edu> wrote:
>What is consciousness? What is the mind? KIBO questions. Let me lay out 
>some ideas, though.
>.......
>Hence, objects of interest to the organism are dual to these (continuously
>varying) patterns of more-or-less coherent dynamics in the brain--the
>mind.  Note that these patterns are fundamentally semantic, although
>syntactic processing can be performed by the mind. Attention is the
>process by which these patterns emerge (are generated). The self is the
>internal pattern dual to the physically experienced body. Loss of
>consciousness is literally the loss of these patterns--loss of mind. 
>
Could you explain what you mean by "fundamentally semantic" as opposed
to (merely) "syntactic"?

>This suggests that if we develop a capability of monitoring these 
>coherent dynamics, we will have a way of objectifying the mind.
>
>--
>Harry Erwin
>Internet: herwin@gmu.edu 
>Just a dumb graduate student working on Katchalsky network models....
>(And if you believe that, I have a ranch in California to sell you.)

Andrzej

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