Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!decwrl!labrea!husc6!mailrus!umix!uunet!pyrdc!gmu90x!dstalder@gmuvax2 From: dstalder@gmuvax2 (Darren Stalder) Newsgroups: alt.individualism Subject: Re: Individualism - Reality or Myth? Message-ID: <916@gmu90x.UUCP> Date: 4 Apr 88 09:00:18 GMT References: <779@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <1081@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <7705@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4344@chinet.UUCP> <4283@hoptoad.uucp> Sender: dstalder@gmu90x.UUCP Reply-To: dstalder@gmuvax2 (Darren Stalder) Organization: George Mason University Lines: 22 In-reply-to: morrow@topaz.rutgers.edu (John Morrow) In article , morrow@topaz (John Morrow) writes: >If you want to claim the mind is seperate, you must prove it. >Scientifically, I doubt it can be proven. A dead body without a mind >weighs as much as a live body with one just like a computer which is >off wieghts as much as one that is on. Making a choice implies that >you can make the wrong choice. How can your brain function under >"wrong" physics? Actually that is incorrect. There have been measurements made and the body weighs some 300 grams less after other things such as water loss are taken into account. I wish that I knew where I read this since I know that everyone will want the reference. But I dont know, so you can accept it or not. -- Torin/Darren Stalder/Wolf Blessed Internet: dstalder@gmuvax2.gmu.edu Be! Bitnet: dstalder@gmuvax ATTnet: 1-703-352-8124 Hail uucp: multiverse!uunet!pyrdc!gmu90x!dstalder Eris! Snail: PO Box 405/Fairfax, VA 22030/USA DISCLAIMER: I have enough problems getting credit what I do do for work, much less this stuff.