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  2. From: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.origins
  4. Subject: Re: What is consciousness?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.185355.12016@aurora.com>
  6. Date: 18 Nov 92 18:53:55 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov13.043009.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <aas9TB1w165w@kalki33>
  8. Reply-To: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
  9. Organization: The Aurora Group
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  12. In article <aas9TB1w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
  13. >Life is revealed by the presence of consciousness,
  14.  
  15. Doesn't it make more sense to define an unknown quantity in terms of
  16. an observable one, rather than vice versa?
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  18. Mark Isaak           "Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every
  19. isaak@aurora.com      generation is humbled by nature." - Philip Lubin
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