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>From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: We've Been Tricked- consciousness
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In article <BwJuuE.DpD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> lcarr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (lincoln carr) writes:

>...  If
>consciousness is not rationality or a certain degree of intelligence
>and it is a well-defined term and means SOMETHING, then what is one
>left with if not apperception?  

Words should be our servants, not our masters.

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