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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
- Subject: Re: Searle on animal consciousness
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.193658.12593@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:36:58 GMT
- References: <1k1mj7INN8cu@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan27.174733.3100@cs.ucf.edu> <C1J039.8A9@unx.sas.com>
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- In article <C1J039.8A9@unx.sas.com> sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan27.174733.3100@cs.ucf.edu>, clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
- >
- >|> Corollary question. If you don't remember, in what sense
- >|> are you conscious?
- >
- >At this point in my life there is a *lot* I don't remember any
- >longer. I do not infer from this that I was unconscious for most
- >of my life.
-
- Excellent response. In any case, memory doesn't work that way (i.e. it
- is not a videotape machine).
-
- > Suppose someone offered you
- >[insert absurd sum of money or some other desideratum] to be
- >tortured painfully and at length under the conditions that (a) no
- >permanent harm or disfigurement would result, and (b) that you
- >would be given a drug so that although the torture would be felt,
- >you would have no memory of it after it was over. Would you take
- >the job?
-
- I certainly wouldn't.
-
- > If not, why not?
-
- I don't like the idea of people monkeying around with my mind, and I
- would not trust their assurances anyway.
-