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- From: timi@mendel.berkeley.edu ( Tim Ikeda)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: What is consciousness?
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 19:56:32 GMT
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- kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) wrote:
- *> Why wouldn't it be conscious? You said that a virus was conscious, it
- *> wouldn't be too hard to manufacture a virus (I'm willing to bet it will be
- *> technically achievable within the next ten years if it isn't already).
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- Kalki Dasa replied:
- >If a virus body were manufactured by human beings, it would not be
- >conscious either. Both a human body and a virus body without
- >consciousness are just dead bodies. The soul, which is the source of
- >consciousness, must be inserted into the body before it can be
- >designated as living. This is not within the power of any human being.
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- How can a "manufactured" virus be distinguished from a physically
- identical, "conscious" virus? Based on the stereotyped, "reductionist"
- view of "orthodox" science, we should not be able to tell the difference
- between the two viruses. How would the "exanded, non-physical" paradigm
- which you have suggested, be able to accomplish the differentiation?
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- Regards,
- Tim Ikeda
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