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- From: ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (wood,christopher)
- Subject: Re: What is consciousness?
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 23:54:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.235433.306@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <1992Nov16.170942@IASTATE.EDU> <1o4HuB4w165w@kalki33>
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- In article <1o4HuB4w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
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- [ Discussion of "Soul" and body trimmed...]
-
- >But "you" in the proper sense, the soul that is personally
- >you, cannot create another soul. Soul is a nonphysical entity which does
- >not behave according to the causal structure of physical law.
-
- >Consciousness, which is a nonphysical property of the nonphysical soul,
- >cannot be studied by the reductionistic methods. But it can be studied
- >scientifically, provided the scientific paradigm is expanded to include
- >the acknowledgement that these nonphysical entities exist.
-
- Science is the study of the material world. Y'all can claim that your
- pet entities can be studied "scientifically" when science is "expanded"
- to include that which is not science. Makes about as much sense as "I
- am from Crete. All Cretins are Liers."
-
- >Since only the soul "has" consciousness, no. No machine we build can
- >ever be conscious or have consciousness. We cannot build nonphysical
- >entities using physical instruments. Nor can nonphysical entities be
- >expected to emerge as a function of any purely physical operation. They
- >are an altogether different kind of phenomenon.
-
- >Sincerely,
-
- Not!
-
- >Kalki Dasa
- --
- Chris Wood Bellcore ...!bellcore!prefect!ccw
- or ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com
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