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Article 7572 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: tobis@meteor.wisc.edu (Michael Tobis)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: A linguistical reformulation of the problem of consciousness
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Date: 10 Nov 92 17:39:56 GMT
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In article <iordonez.721351866@academ01> iordonez@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Ivan Ordonez-Reinoso) writes:
>Everything in the Universe is in third person (that, it, there, etc).
>Everything but a very little part, that is in the first person, I. What
>makes the difference? What makes a part of the universe become a first
>person? Explain it in terms of third persons alone.
>
>In other words, Why am I?

An interesting way of phrasing the question. I would object to the "very
little part" part, though. Thus far, the worlds of the subjective and the
objective have proved stubbornly incommensurable: my existential reality
cannot be measured by mass or volume. I would substitute "the most interesting
part" for "a very little part".

mt


