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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.ai,net.philosophy,net.sci,net.misc
Subject: Re: Mind and Brain
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Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 10:42:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 26 10:42:05 1984
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Keywords: behaviorism,brain,mind,Plato,dead greeks

> "subconsious", "mind", etc -- what DO these words mean?  More
> importantly, do these things exist?
> I assert they do not.  I take the behaviorist philosophy that what
> you call "mind" is a thing invented by Plato or some dead Greek
> person which is just as mystical and unreal as "the Gods" or
> "magic."
> What you have is a brain.  What you do is behavior.  You are an
> organism that responds to AND IS CHANGED BY your environment.
> That's all.  The rest you've made up or assumed was true because
> some dead greek person said it was there.
> Show me your "mind" -- demonstrate its existence.  I dare you.

BRA-VO!!!!!!!
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						Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr