Re: Why consciousness matters

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 19:25:23 MST


J.R.Molloy wrote,
>Dictionary definitions of phlogiston and vitalism don't make
>phlogiston and vitalism real.
>You can define the ghost in the machine any way you want to. That
>doesn't make it factual.

But you didn't answer the question. What part of the dictionary
definition of consciousness do you dispute? How do you define "the
ghost in the machine" if not with "consciousness"?

-- 
Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>



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