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From: jim@ism780b.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Consciousness - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 00:26:30 EDT
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ism780b!jim    Jul 18 00:05:00 1984

>        I suspect that we, and many higher animals that i observe, drift
> in and out of various levels of consciousness throughout the day, and
> as we grow and age.  And i suspect that Nature selects for those who
> are more aware of their existence than others.

Thise is a really warped view of evolution.  Man is not the most selected
for, not the latest species to be developed, not the most complex organism.
There are millions of other species out there.  Each is the pinnacle of its
own evolutionary path.  Most of them are more stable than man.  Ants have been
selected over and over and over for millions of years.  They evolved into an
extremely selectable state.  Man is just an experiment, and it looks like he
is about to select himself right out of existence.

I found the rest of your article pretty sensible.

-- Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim)