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>From: monaghan@milton.u.washington.edu (Tracy Monaghan)
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Subject: Re: Consciousness (was Re: Daniel Dennett)
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Date: 26 Nov 91 23:20:35 GMT
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In article <1991Nov26.135953.5926@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
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[stuff and nonsense deleted]

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>Instead, I'll suggest a reductio ad absurdum of the AI view.  Assume that
>the mind is reducible to the functioning of the brain.  

Hold your horses there, partner.  Are you implying that the mind exists
beyond the functioning of the brain?  That there is some 'magik' going on?

Pray tell what are you removing/losing in reducing the mind to the
functioning of the brain.

[additional nonsense removed]

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Cheers,

Tracy
monagahn@u.washington.edu

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