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>From: mcdermot@cs.uiuc.edu (Timothy McDermott)
Subject: Re: A linguistical reformulation of the problem of consciousness
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Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:53:20 GMT
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In <1992Nov10.173956.20795@meteor.wisc.edu> tobis@meteor.wisc.edu (Michael Tobis) writes:

>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".


There is a middle position surely in which "I" doesn't forget those
second persons called "you",  and perhaps even those third persons 
that are not that or it or there but "they"?

Or is it considered that consciousness also divides 'I' off from
'you' and 'they'?

C
>mt


