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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: What is consciousness?
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 22:55:26 GMT
- Organization: sgi
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- References: <1992Nov17.033947.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <LoDFuB8w165w@kalki33>
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- In article <LoDFuB8w165w@kalki33>, kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
- |>
- |> We have answered all your questions very precisely, but whether we
- |> answer or not, you are too confused to understand anything.
-
- Could you please outline the procedure you employ to distinguish
- between a poster who is "too confused to understand anything"
- and one who does understand, but is not yet convinced?
-
- |> Thank you for not posting any more useless replies to us.
-
- Could you please outline the procedure you use to decided which
- replies are 'useless"? A reply might be useless to you, and
- yet illuminate points for other t.o readers.
-
- |> We are very much in favor of the called for "boycott" if it means
- |> that there will be no more rubbish for us to sweep up.
-
- Could you please outline the procedure you use to decide what is
- rubbish? For example, I pointed out that one of your claims -
- consciousnesses can contact one another directly and that this
- can be tested - leads to a recursive problem. Namely: if A claims
- to contact another consciousness B directly, then I can only check
- this directly by contacting A's consciousness directly.
-
- Maybe I missed it, but I don't think you ever replied. Was this
- because what I said was "rubbish", or because of something else?
-
- jon.
-