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Subject: Re: Consciousness and its relationship to Evolut Date:
6/7/2001 12:31 PM Recommendations: 1 Something has to experience
conciousness: it is a subjective quality. Hence whatever runs
the set of programs (into my way of thinking) with the
appropriate input and output will experience conciousness.  Now
we are back to consciousness being a quality existing in the
mind. I hope we can figure out mind before we go on to its
qualities (or is it states, or is it a property? A red folding
chair has the property of being red, but may have the states of
being folded or unfolded. I need a little more precision or else
I lose the thread.  Ummm, my bad. But my bad 'cause its easy to
slip into a linguistic trap here. Conciousness is a subjective
process that exists in the brain. The mind is a result of that
subjective state. Its not a property.  And whatever runs the
programs .. will experience