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>From: zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism (was Re: Virtual Person?)
Message-ID: <1992Feb2.082603.6355@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 2 Feb 92 08:26:03 GMT
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	I would like to throw out a simple proposition, can anyone
explain how consciousness can be distinct from the brain keeping in 
mind the following:
a) Consciousness does not exist without sense! Try very hard to hold
a consciousness without using one of your senses as a reference point.
b) It is very nice to be able to say "I think!" but I propose that that
statement has no meaning, without being able to say what it is that you
'think of' you might as well have said "I bleep" (This last part I know
is unoriginal)

It is obvious to me that our brain is connected to the rest of our sense
organs thru nerves, and hence all sensory input to our 'minds' must be
a result of physics of the body! (Yes, I know what I mean but it is really
getting late and I can't explain it!)
	The question is "why do we need to introduce some ether-substance
called 'mind' when it does not introduce any new effects into the system?
	If it doesn't do anything, then why assume that it must be there?


