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>From: petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson)
Subject: Re: Ignore Searle and be happier
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Organization: Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division
References: <1991Dec30.203517.30168@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Dec30.205355.12606@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> <1991Dec30.234440.1645@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 92 16:14:07 GMT

What does it mean for a tree to have knowledge.  Does it have will and wills itself toward the sun.  Does it will itself towards the water.  Or does this happen because of natural forces.  Would you also say that these natural forces have knowledge.  Grav
ity knows that two masses must attrack (or is it the masses that know there is gravity).  I think that you have a strange concept of knowledge. But I would say that since you know about the tree and its behavior, you are a conscious being, and if the







know about its environment and its behavior then it to would be a conscious being.


