Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA19688 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 3 Jun 2000 18:04:40 +0100 From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk> Organization: Reborn Technology To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Really, really??? Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:17:17 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <3938DB4D.66A78FEC@mediaone.net> Message-Id: <00060317203703.00520@faichney> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, Chuck wrote:
>
>I'm just (half) joking, of course, but Searle, in his effort to explain away
>the computational theory of mind, says something to the effect that our
>thoughts can't be encoded in 1s and 0s - that that would be assuming we are
>in a coma. That was the nature of my comment/joke to Robin a few days ago.
That reminds me Chuck: you never replied to my reply to that. I hope you
don't mind if I repeat it: Do you think that to ignore something (in this
case consciousness/freewill) is to assume that it does not exist?
The implication being, of course, that it is perfectly valid for memetics
to ignore consciousness and freewill, because that is *not* to imply that
we don't believe in them.
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