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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Definition of Consciousness
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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 23:36:00 GMT
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In article <3b08sn$bd3@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>,
DeWayne Filppi <def@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> wrote:
>In article <jqbCzK8oq.DBI@netcom.com>, Jim Balter <jqb@netcom.com> wrote:
>>In article <39r3b8$8hq@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>,
>>Ian Noe <labin@unix.cc.emory.edu> wrote:
>>>The 
>>>most despicable and criminal activity happening in philosophy and science 
>>>today is the materialistic reduction of consciousness to machinery.  
>>
>>I can think of few things more despicable than to declare as criminal the
>>voicing of an opinion you disagree with.
>>
>I can think of few things more despicable than to think despicable one
>who declares as criminal the voicing of opinion you disagree with. ;-)

I don't believe you, but regardless, what's your point?  Note that the
debate over the criminalization of speech is a hallmark of western political
culture.


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