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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Is CONSCIOUSNESS continuous? discrete? quantized?
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 17:13:16 GMT
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In article <departedD437At.FxE@netcom.com> departed@netcom.com (just passing through) writes:

>My definition would be:  the ongoing process of information exchange
>across spaces that map the information differently, which spaces are
>affected by the information transferred.  The more ordinary definition
>of consciousness in human life would be a specialized case of that:
>absorbing information and remapping it into your inner world(s), and
>being affected thereby.

You might be interested in the definition George Bealer gives
in his _Quality and Concepts_.  (I think that's right.)  I'd
quote it for you, but I don't have my copy handy.

-- jd


