Re: Dualism

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From: Timothy Y. Chow
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:22

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In article <1992Sep14.003130.26845@math.ucla.edu> barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>As so often occurs, you folks are falling into the philosophical 
>trap of trying to produces a precise definition of consciousness,

As so often occurs, you are way off the mark.  Only someone who has barely
looked at the articles in this thread would think that they have been
concerned chiefly with establishing a precise definition of consciousness.

>The interesting questions:
>(1) Why and how did consciousness evolve
>(2) what are the stages of development and possible types
>    of consciousness within an individual organism.
>(3) How can we create consciouss entities.

These are at best the SCIENTIFICALLY interesting questions.  What makes you
think that nothing except science is interesting?
-- 
Tim Chow     tycchow@math.mit.edu
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
only 1 1/2 tons.                               ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949

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