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Article 1646 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Animal Intelligence vs Human Intelligence
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Date: 26 Nov 91 20:17:42 GMT
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In article <38000@shamash.cdc.com> map@svl.cdc.com writes:
>So who is doing the "deliberate focusing of the mind on reality?" - you
>are, whenever you think about reality.  We each have the ability to   
>alter our level of focus, analogous to our ability to alter the focus
>of our eyes.  Just as we can make our view of the words on a computer
>screen sharpen or blur, so we can make our thinking sharpen or blur       
>(or stop altogether).  We can choose to concentrate fully on the problem
>at hand, we can stare blankly out the window ignoring the problem, or         
>we can concentrate at any level in between.  

Suppose you decide to focus your mind.  Did you decide to decide,
or did it just happen?


