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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Thought Question
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In article <1995Jan13.184941.6505@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Greg Stevens) writes:

>>......Consciousness-merging is an established fact
>>in neurology, mainly through experiments involving the corpus callosum.
>
>I hope you're not going to try to cite anything talking about atomic 
>consciousness in elementary particles.  If you think "consciousness-merging"
>is an "established fact" then you have read too little neurology or
>cognitive philosophy.  There are in fact many out there who do not think
>we have a unified consciousness at all, but that our consciousness consists
>of many UNmerged modules (Brooks, Varela, et al...).

That module idea always looked like a "level error" to me.  Subjective
experience has a fair degree of unity, but the implementation might
well be a number of separate modules.

-- jd
