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Article 7619 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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Subject: Re: Simulated Brain
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>From: system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 01:27:16 NZST
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gindrup@math.okstate.edu (Eric Gindrup) writes:

> In article <burt.720913842@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> burt@aupair.cs.athabascau
> 
> >In article <m94oTB1w165w@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz> system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.
> > (Wayne McDougall) writes:
> >
> >>[...] When I say that the number "2"
> >>exists, I don't mean, like Plato is thought to have believed, that
> >>there is a big marble TWO somewhere.
> >
> [...]
> >
> >Cat's existed, for example, before there was ever a word for cat.

For the record, I never made the statement that now appears to be 
attributed to me. Please adjust your opinion of me up or down 
accordingly.

BW: in your recent message vis a vis identity qua identity, vs 
persistent sense of identity over time - I don't disagree with anything 
you say. Didn't seem worth quoting a long message for that effect. So I 
wasn't just ignoring you.

-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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