Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!pesnta!hplabs!sytek!syteka!jtm From: jtm@syteka.UUCP (Jim McCrae) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Sotware vs. "meat" Message-ID: <494@syteka.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 17:52:45 EST Article-I.D.: syteka.494 Posted: Wed Nov 28 17:52:45 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 19:53:45 EST References: ea.9800040 Lines: 15 Howzabout this? Your "meat" is the 4-D picture you maintain of yourself. Others "meat" is your picture of them. Actually, the body is more of a symbol, an associative marker in real space (which is not space-time) to give you a place to be with all these other beings like you. And the software is your N-D picture of yourself doing things inside your body, i.e., inside your mind. You can have other pictures of yourself, others and your own processes, but you can't leave you. You're all you've got, quite literally. All the rest is a well-coordinated dream of sorts. If you want backing evidence or religious documents re-stating this position, good luck. I don't know of any. "Feelings without explanation, some things are hard to define... like the sound inside your mind, playing all the time, playing with a heart of steel..." -David Byrne Jim McCrae ...!hplabs!sytek!jtm