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From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: Discovering What Nature Wants
Keywords: Consciousness and Intentionality.
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Date: 18 Oct 89 05:51:58 GMT
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It's time I got some useful work done, and it has become evident that
trying to play Socrates in this group isn't getting me anywhere.  Can
we leave it at this:

    some people use language in such a way that when they say
    "Nature can form intentions" they _mean_ "some parts of Nature
    can form intentions", and for them the truth of the former
    necessarily follows from the truth of the latter.

    other people do not use language in that way.

"Truth cannot be tolerant" -- Freud.