On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Higgo James wrote:
> Desmund Biddulph helped me to a crucial insight: thoughts exist in the
> plenitude, but they are not objectively related to one another. This very
> thought, of you reading this e-mail, exists. But don't expect it to be
> followed by another one!
> So - consciousness is the hard problem precisely because it does not exist
> as a sequence of thoughts in time. Nothing can be viewed objectively as a
> sequence of thoughts in time.
> A lion's idea of hunger exists, but there is no lion...
James, should we interpret this to mean that you now accept the
ASSA rather than the RSSA?
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Jacques Mallah (jqm1584.domain.name.hidden)
Physicist / Many Worlder / Devil's Advocate
"I know what no one else knows" - 'Runaway Train', Soul Asylum
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Received on Fri Jan 07 2000 - 09:21:14 PST