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Article 5962 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: chris@kbsw1 (Chris Kostanick 806 1044)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: penrose
Message-ID: <1992May28.150514.2238@kbsw1>
Date: 28 May 92 15:05:14 GMT
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In article <1992May27.182726.24523@sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
>In article <1992May27.152204.23631@kbsw1> chris@kbsw1
> (Chris Kostanick 806 1044) writes:
>
>
>   >Your conclusion that brains and minds are distinct seems less than
>   >rigorous. Have you ever seen a disembodied mind?
>
>  What? Less than rigorous? It seems perfectly rigorous to me! Who do you
>know that died of insult to the mind?

I think you confuse the medical word "insult" with the common 
usage, but actually my wife's grandfather died of something like
insult to the mind. His wife died and though he was in reasonable
health, he died of stomach cancer within the year. It is quite common
for one spouse to die soon after the other. There are many at least
anecdotal cases of people that "just give up" and die. If this isn't
insult to the mind, what do you mean?

Chris Kostanick
"Stick and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me"


