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On 2 Aug 2001, at 16:21, Bill Spight wrote:
> Dear Joe,
>
> > Neither is the word "giraffe" really a tall, long-necked,
> > four-legged, leaf-eating african denizen, but the word stands for,
> > that is, symbolically represents, its referent, as does the personal
> > pronoun.
>
> And what, pray tell, is the referent for that "I"?
>
For you, it is that dynamically recursive conscious self-awareness,
that emerged from your material substrate brain as you developed
from infancy, which asked that question. For me, it is the one that
answered it.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
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