Re: CHAT: mass-hallucination?

Christopher Wright wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:00:43 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
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>>I'd suggest two or three axioms for the universe that we can be sure of:
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>>1)A consciousness (namely, me) exists.
>>2)There is some ability to process data (although 'process' implies
>>time, which, again, rather lacks evidence), which leads to the way I
>>percieve the world.
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>Actually, I'd refine that to:
>1) A consciousness (namely, me) exists.
>2) This consciousness is bound to a state or states that allow knowledge
>and thought. (This does not imply any veracity to that knowledge.)
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Hmm.  Maybe.  I'd suggest that thought is not neccesary.  Something
could be feeding us something that we interpret as thought, for
example.  Knowledge, however, of an instantaneous state, is neccesary.

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