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- From: u0a38@seq1.cc.keele.ac.uk (LJ Barton)
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- Subject: Re: What it means to be alive
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 21:20:52 WET
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- HIGH THERE...
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- Difficult one this...potentially extremely contentious...
- Don't you jst love it ?...So I'll just stick in a little bit of my oar...
- ...I haven't got time to go into detail yet, but for reasons I'll
- explain later I've spent a lot of time considering this one from the
- angle of consciousness and intelligence...
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- So...just to make a dogmatic declaration for the time being:
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- Memory is the dynamic persistence of qualia; personality the dynamic
- persistence of memory.
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- What's this got to do with what it means to be alive ?
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- I'll tell you later...
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- Cheers,
- Lol (Freelance thinker and imagineer)
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- Just say 'No' to individuality
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