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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Cognitive Function, Reduction, and Quantum Mechanics
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In article <3m1j6i$brs@oahu.cs.ucla.edu>,
Kenneth Colby <colby@oahu.cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>    
>
>    McGinn makes a distinction between consciousness as medium and
>    conscious content as messages. There exist no laws of classical
>    or quantum mechanics from which one can derive the meanings of
>    the messages. 

Hardly surprising, since there is NO meaning to any message as such (a message
in isolation). The only 'meaning' is in a system which originated it or a sys-
tem which receives it. This 'meaning' is in a physical process which produced
the message (in the originating system) or in a physical process which the 
message causes in the receiving system. 

>...................Additional principles regarding representation,
>    interpretation, semantic information, etc. are required for
>    adequate explanatory accounts.
>	     KMC
>


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