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From: 5LG3 (Terrill Snyder)
Subject: Re: Nested hierarchical programming, you say?
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>So in a very real and final way, the "we" you refer to certainly is its  
>own context. We can continue to believe in consciousness and other  
>ego-candy to feed our need to distinguish ourselves from the rest of the  
>universe (cf the doctrine of geocentricism), or perhaps we may one day  
>find pragmatic, parsimonius, aesthetic, philosophical, moral and  
>scientific value in abandoning these ill-conceived notions in favor of  
>ones that embed us within our supercedent universe -- itself truly alive.
>
>Well, if you've made it to the bottom of this article, thanks for reading  
>it. Good day.
>---
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>David ARDELL    <<Nothing is "mere">> -- Richard P. Feynman
>Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
>Stanford, CA 94305-5020  Phone: 415-723-4952   Fax: 415-725-8244
>NeXTMail welcomed.

Wow, well said.  The imagination that it takes to begin to understand the
world is so much greater than the "flat world doctrine" of a dead universe,
where the carbon molecule is God.   
