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>From: jj@medulla.cis.ohio-state.edu (John Josephson)
Subject: Re: Thought? Physical processes? Inside? Outside?
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>> There seems to me to be no evidence that awareness has anything
>> that can reasonably be called a location.

There is plenty of evidence that awareness goes away when the brain
stops working.  And plenty of evidence that awareness ``gets funny''
when certain chemicals are ingested that appear to have their major
effects in the brain.  In fact the evidence is so overwhelming that
awareness is brain-dependent, that it takes a special sort of
blindness not to see it.

 .. jj



