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>From: sparky@wixer.cactus.org (Timothy Sheridan)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Brain and Mind (was: Logic and God)
Message-ID: <1992Oct29.155202.17808@wixer.cactus.org>
Date: 29 Oct 92 15:52:02 GMT
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In article <5w1DTB3w165w@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz> system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz
(Wayne McDougall) writes:
>swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>
>>
>> We *currently* have no way of knowing, but argument from ignorance has a way

>> of evaporating as science advances.  Two centuries ago it was almost in-
>> concievable that life could be based purely on chemical reactions (as they
>> were then understood), but that is now universally accepted as an establishe
d
>> fact.  Why should mental activity be any different?  Why should the current
>> problems be anything other than ignorance?
>>
>> --
>> sarima@teradata.com			(formerly tdatirv!sarima)
>>   or
>> Stanley.Friesen@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com
>
>
>Hmmm. Just a passing comment. If life is based PURELY on chemical
>reactions, then home come no one has created life in a test tube yet?
>I expect your answer will be a form of "have patience". Hmmm....
>
>
>--
>  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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The reason 'living organisms' are not created in test tubes from basic
elements is thet they are verry verry complex and we currently lack the
apropo voodoo chants.

(^_^)


