From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxf!govern
Newsgroups: net.ai
Title: Consciousness, Monism, and Brain as Machine
Article-I.D.: houxf.274
Posted: Tue Feb  8 17:08:22 1983
Received: Fri Feb 11 05:48:40 1983

(Long article, as might be expected from the title)

Prem Devanbu's original article had three points which interested
me, so here is more grist for the mill.

	1) Consciousness in another being is essentially unprovable,
	   (in the dualistic-logical sense of "proof".)
	   (I'll buy that.....unless some really Mind-boggling
	   counter-argument comes along.)
	   (However, this was only a side point in the discussion.)

	2a) Consciousness is essentially monistic / non-dualistic, and 
	2b) this implies 1).

		2a) This worldview fits in well with Eastern forms
		    of philosophy/religion, but that does not mean
		    that we can take it as an axiom, even if it
		    concurs with other observations.
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