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From: kovsky@netcom.com (Bob Kovsky)
Subject: Re: Significance of consciousness
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In the previous article,
Andrzej Pindor quoted from me and responded:
>>
>Could you give an example of a "non-material" experience and an example of it
>having "consequential effect" on material bodies?

	The purpose that motivates me when I write a message on Usenet 
has effects on the keys that are pressed.

>
>>	In addition to the common-sense fact that non-material experience 
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>has a consequential effect on material bodies, consider the following.  
>>The construction of conscious experience would appear to require a 
>>substantial apparatus.  Why waste all that material and energy on an 
>>"epiphenomenon?"
>
>A lot of "common-sense" facts turn out to be false when looked at more closely.

	I don't know of any "facts" that turn out to be false, where 
"facts" are the most primitive experiences.  I do understand that more 
refined interpretations and theories are often discarded as false.

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