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From: blenko@rochester.UUCP (Tom Blenko)
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Subject: Re: life is but a dream
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Date: Sat, 8-Oct-83 16:53:38 EDT
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The statement that consciousness is an illusion does not mean it does
not or cannot have a concrete realization. I took the remarks to mean
simply that the entire mental machinery is not available for
introspection, and in its place some top-level "picture" of the process
is made available. The picture need not reflect the details of internal
processing, in the same way that most people's view of a car does not
bear much resemblance to its actual mechanistic internals.

For those who may not already be aware, the proposal is not a new one.
I find it rather attractive, admitting most own favorable
predisposition towards the proposition that mental processing is
computational.

I still think this newsgroup would be more worthwhile if readers
adopted a more tolerant attitude. It seems to be the case that there is
nearly always a silly interpretation of someone's contribution;
discovering that interpretation doesn't seem to be a very challenging
task.

	Tom Blenko
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