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Article 3284 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: orourke@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
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Subject: Re: Strong AI and Panpsychism
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Date: 30 Jan 92 03:18:05 GMT
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In article <1992Jan29.214150.1709@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
>Therefore the existence of consciousness involves
>a property of the universe over and above the physical properties. [...]
>I'd be very happy to be proven wrong about this, and to be shown
>how materialism could provide an explanation of consciousness,
>but I've thought about this for a long, long time, with all my
>prior sympathies lying in the materialist direction, and I
>simply don't see how it's possible.

I take it then that you feel that, in "Consciousness Explained,"
Dennett didn't?  Not sure if you posted a reaction to this book...


