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From: kovsky@netcom.com (Bob Kovsky)
Subject: Re: Is CONSCIOUSNESS continuous? discrete? quantized?
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In article <1995Feb26.213856.25826@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
Greg Stevens <stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu> wrote:


>What in your observed reality leads you to believe that consciousness is
>advantageous?  I'd think that any such belief was the result of sloppy
>thinking and not-careful analysis, so I am curious about what leads
>you to believe that consciousness is advantageous.  What about your
>"observed reality" makes it seem so?

	When I pay attention to what I am doing:

	1.  I get in fewer auto accidents;
	2.  My programs have fewer bugs;
	3.  I don't irritate other people so much.

	What about your "observed reality" makes you believe that 
consciousness is epiphenomenal?  (Please comply with the following 
rules:  no references to theory; no discussion of "inputs" or 
"algorithms" of "adaptive agents"; report only on observations of 
experience.)


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