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Subject: Re: Nobody Home (Was: Human Intelligence vs Machine Intelligence)
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>From: system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 92 15:16:32 NZDST
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sparky@wixer.cactus.org (Timothy Sheridan) writes:

> Has any Searlian (sounds like a star trek term) proposed how the
> informational processes of the brains different material systems eventually
> link up with the ethirial non-material non-informational super-substance
> of deep isness we call consciousness?
> 
> If we remove eyes there is still consciousness.
> if we remove the visual cortex- the same.
> etc.. at some point the info-process must meet the Mugwamp jizzum of our
> selves..
> 
> So I ask Mr. Searl and Co. -- Could consciousness be made of Information?
> 
> Tim.

Instead of meeting the Mugwamp jizzum, perhaps you reach the point 
where the system from which you are plucking eyes loses the capacity to 
maintain grounding, with the consequences hithertofore explained?

-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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