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- From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
- Subject: Re: Searle on animal consciousness
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.033502.18271@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <1993Jan25.023842.11756@sophia.smith.edu> <1993Jan25.115504.13869@sophia.smith.edu> <1k0r1tINN5fn@cannelloni.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:35:02 GMT
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- >In article <1993Jan25.115504.13869@sophia.smith.edu% orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
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- >% Let me add to this thought. The night after I last sprained my
- >%ankle, I had great difficulty sleeping from the pain, but I managed a
- >%few hours of fitful sleep. It seems clear to me the pain continued while
- >%I was asleep. Searle argues for this convincingly in "The Rediscovery of
- >%the Mind." My body responded to the pain even while asleep, e.g., by not
- >%attempting to roll over. So one can have unconscious pains.
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- Perhaps you only had pain while sleeping to the extent that you sleep was
- interupted by times of (partial?) consciousness.
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