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Subject: Re: Simulated Brain
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>From: system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 92 14:12:18 NZST
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Quote from Mike Thomas:

 means to excape perditors; I can think of a bat and a moth which have 
a
 love hate relationship without the hate on the part of the moth just 
two
 nuerons which respond to the bats sonar, which cause it to change its
 fight path of just fall out of the air. I always thought that it would
 be strange to be this moth, flying along then all of a sudden for 
reasons
 unknown to myself just stop flying and fall to the ground. The point
 becomes this: the moth has no control of itself it operates in direct
 response to its environment, it does not "love", or "hate", or "want."

 Humans on the other hand can react to their perceptions in millions of
 ways. It is often said, "the difference between a friend and an enemy 
is

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So? That doesn't show that we have the "delf" or the "I" that you refer 
to. We might just be very very very complicated moths.

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  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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