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>From: bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Causes and Reasons
Message-ID: <1991Dec17.114908.2272@arizona.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 91 18:49:06 GMT
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In article <1991Dec17.154142.21021@psych.toronto.edu> 
michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar) writes:
>
>*I* uniquely determine what *I* am thinking about.  I am the sole arbiter
>of the content of my conscious thoughts.  How could it possibly be otherwise?
>
>- michael
> 

  Look at Dennett's new book "Consciousness Explained" to see how it
could possibly be otherwise.

  It is certainly otherwise for me.  I very often think about things I
don't want to think about, and sometimes thoughts just pop into by
head for no apparent reason.

	-- Bill


