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- From: farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris)
- Newsgroups: alt.consciousness
- Subject: Re: physical vs nonphysical
- Message-ID: <Nov.20.22.13.13.1992.29162@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 03:13:13 GMT
- References: <!wnqpjl@lynx.unm.edu>
- Distribution: alt.consciousness
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- In article <!wnqpjl@lynx.unm.edu>, bennett@deepthought.unm.edu (Paul
- Bennett) writes: ....
-
- :apparently different when I dream. It is for this reason that I consider
- :these things to be all in one realm of consciousness (begging the question
- :of what consciousness really is... we haven't answered that one
- yet... ;)).
-
- Consciousness, I would venture to state, is awareness of onesself.
- After that, you can start talking about what is one is aware of. ;)
-
- : One problem here is that "physical" and "nonphysical" are not well
- :defined words. Moreover, we each have differing ideas regarding their
- :apparent meanings. Curious, no?
-
- My favorite definition for physical: we can measure it with physical
- instruments. If you can't measure it, it ain't physical (yet ;)
-
- :
- : In closing, please keep up the discussion, RE: views of Consciousness.
- :
-
- Request acknowledged and granted.
-
- -Lorenzo
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- "Once upon a time men were possessed ******************************
- by devils. Now they are not less * Lorenzo Farris *
- obsessed by ideas" -CG Jung * farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu *
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