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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.
But that "I", for me, depends on my brain, and could not have been a
giraffe. That's the illusion I was referring to.
Best,
Bill
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