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. postnews -n net.religion <