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>From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Causes and Reasons
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Date: 17 Dec 91 18:20:54 GMT
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In article <1991Dec17.154142.21021@psych.toronto.edu> michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar) writes:
>
>*I* uniquely determine what *I* am thinking about.  I am the sole arbiter
>of the content of my conscious thoughts.  How could it possibly be otherwise?

   If I came up to you and beat you on the head with a rubber truncheon, your
conscious thoughts would be altered.  You would feel pain, and possibly anger.
You would almost certainly feel confusion.  In this way, I am altering the 
content of your thoughts by altering your environment.  

   Undoubtedly the thoughts that would have passed through your mind had I not
beat upon your head would be considerably different than those which would have
taken place had I beat upon it.
--scott


