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- From: epowers@mccoy (POWERS)
- Subject: Re: Evolution implied by the Bible
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.000201.8575@nmsu.edu>
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- References: <16B5E10EB2.I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:02:01 GMT
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- In article <16B5E10EB2.I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de>
- I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Benedikt Rosenau) writes:
-
- > IMO, people identify with their conscious state. So far so deep :-)
- >
- > But many people do not like to see them or better, the very essence
- > of them, as the product of chemical reactions/physical processes,
- > because it is so damn apersonal. There is nothing that gives the process
- > of identification with it the very notion of being special/not the
- > surrounding that is the base of identification.
- >
- > In other words, I or rather *feeling of being myself* is nothing
- > tailor made?
- >
- > However, I do not identify myself much with me as I was twenty
- > years ago, so I would expect my soul, or whatever introduced
- > consciousness, to have changed. Few of the theories of souls say
- > it the same way, so I reject them for that reason. And then the
- > theories seem to get their explanatory power (awkward term) from
- > their materialistic parts. Soul is not necessary, it just gives
- > them more emotional appeal.
- >
- > If there is a better one, I would be interested.
- > Benedikt
-
- I'm curious what you think of my idea that if thought is
- completely due to physical processes that we can't differentiate between a
- false thought and a true one?
- Erik Powers
-