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>From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
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Subject: Re: Grounding: Real vs. Virtual (formerly "on meaning")
Keywords: symbol, analog, Turing Test, robotics
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Date: 22 May 92 11:52:01 GMT
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In article <vhogcINNfit@agate.berkeley.edu> epfaith@twinkies.berkeley.edu (Edward Paul Faith) writes:

>It follows that the human brain
>contains not one consciousness, but three, the central, the left, and
>the right, and that the left and the right form a part of the central.
>In this way we see how to divide up consciousness until we reach
>the bottom-most level.

Isn't it more likely that consciousness is a process which can (and 
probably does) run in many parts of the hardware? 


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