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From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: Antipode of 'boostrapping', cogitos, etc.
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Date: 21 Jun 91 17:46:30 GMT
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Regarding various: 'bootstrapping'-problems, cogitos,
and 'symbol-grounding' issues, it occurs to me to wonder 
about the other end of the temporal spectrum for a 
'conscious' agent, viz. its 'death'.  'Mind',
a construct of the brain, coming to an end in humans
or in other conscious assemblages, poses a sort of
inverse realization-of-consciousness problem.

  -eric silber
  silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM