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Subject: RE: Simulated Brains
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>From: system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 92 17:21:52 NZST
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thomas@ckgp.UUCP (Mike Thomas) writes:

> 
> (that you and I have) does not change. I guess what I am saying is that
> a person does not lose a perspective of self. Your brain has millions of
> for the mind (or soul). What I am talking about is this focus of thought
> which we perceive as "self." When I say "I" I do not mean 100 trillion
> neurons (even if that is all I am?) I am refering to that single thing
> we call "I", or mind. 

Well, so you say, but as has been suggested before perhaps these 100 
trillion neurons are all that you are, and that damaging them 
excessively would necessarily impact on your perspective of self, and 
what that self was.

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  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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