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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Thought Question
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In article <1995Jan20.153230.27315@gdunix.gd.chalmers.se>,
Claes Andersson <sa209@utb.shv.hb.se> wrote:
> The other way around.. he refers to the part of our conciosness that obviously
>can't have any meaning, at least nothing that means that it can't be substituted
>with another function. Think about how many choises we make without our
>conciousness swithced on. Don't you think that the rest of it could be "wired"
>in the same way. If something hurts, why don't the body just retract the limb from
>the source of pain and store the situation = The same result as you can hope to
>get with a self awareness.

A reflex movement of the limb would often be a very stupid strategy.  
Consciousness allows more intelligence to be brought to bear on the problem
of what to do about the pain.
