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>From: long@next1.acme.ucf.edu (Richard Long)
Subject: Re: Creation of alt.consciousness
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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 16:47:28 GMT

In article <1992Jun8.133050.25652@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki  
Kuoppala) writes:
> This is a proposal to create a group for discussions on consciousness.
> Unless objections are heard or a better name is proposed, I will
> create the group alt.consciousness in a while.
> 
> Topics include:
> 
> - nature of consciousness - where do they come from, what are their
>   properties, who has them
> - states of [ human ] consciousness
> - various alterants: psychoactive chemicals, mind machines, sleep  
deprivation,
>   fasting, sex, sleep, meditation, sensory deprivation
> - altered states: hypnosis, trance, OOBE's, changes of perception,
>   the religious experience
> - do machines, children, animals, non-living things, humans have  
consciousness
> - brain chemistry and consciousness
> - brain magnetic and electronic action; measuring states of
>   consciousness
> - mind engineering: brainwashing, hypnosis
> - consciousness altering and research techniques
> - philosophical aspects
> - quantum mechanics and consciousness
> - influence of experiences to perception and consciousness

If discussions on psychoactive drugs and altered states of "consciousness"  
are included, I think that it is safe to predict that such a newsgroup  
will quickly degenerate into something like alt.new-age.scientology.  Care  
to take any bets?
--
Richard Long
Institute for Simulation and Training
University of Central Florida
12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300, Orlando, FL 32826
(407)658-5026, FAX: (407)658-5059
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