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>From: tim@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Tim Roberts)
Subject: Re: Brain and Mind (was: Logic and God)
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sparky@wixer.cactus.org (Timothy Sheridan) writes:

>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
>>> 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

>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.

And the boojums.

Another Tim
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