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From: roger@yuba.wrs.com (Roger Rohrbach)
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Subject: Re^2: "self" consciousness
Keywords: consciousness, thought
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Date: 7 Feb 90 20:27:38 GMT
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mfinegan@uceng.UC.EDU (michael k finegan) writes:

>One cannot assume a priori that thought and conciousness are separate.

    It's true that we cannot assume this.  We can, however, perform an
experiment:  is it possible to be aware (conscious) of something (our
surroundings, ourselves, both...) while having no discernable thoughts?
These two points are central:  that we have not exhausted the possibilities
of empirical study in this realm;  and that the distinction between con-
sciousness and other psychic processes bears investigation.

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