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From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Subject: Re: Strong AI and consciousness
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In article <1994Nov28.135205.27234@unix.brighton.ac.uk> mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute) writes:

>I've just this weekend read a back issue of New Scientist that bears
>directly on the problem of how consciousness might be both private, and
>yet subject to evolutionary selection.

>Humphrey, N. (1994). 'The private world of consciousness', New Scientist,
>141:1907, 08-Jan-1994, IPC Magazines Ltd, pp 22-25.

Developed further in hs book "A Natural History of the Mind", Chatto &
Windus, 1992.

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