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  4. From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
  5. Subject: Re: Searle on animal consciousness
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan28.220623.14268@unocal.com>
  7. Sender: news@unocal.com (Unocal USENET News)
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  9. References: <1993Jan24.213358.10067@sophia.smith.edu> <1jvevlINN4va@cannelloni.cis.ohio-state.edu> <8287@skye.ed.ac.uk>
  10. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:06:23 GMT
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  13. Some people call consciousness an "emergent phenomena"-
  14. property of a sufficiently complex system.  Life is
  15. another emergent phenomena- some chemical systems are
  16. definitely non-living, some definitely living, and a
  17. small set almost or barely alive.  Therefore there
  18. may be a stages along the eveloutionary complexity
  19. ladder that correspond to non-conscious, clearly
  20. conscious and ambigious.
  21.