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From: jtm@syteka.UUCP (Jim McCrae)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Sotware vs. "meat"
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 17:52:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 17:52:45 1984
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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