On Mar 24, 2009, at 3:30 PM, [email protected] wrote:
You don't know that the tumor has that sort of consciousness. You
don't even
know much about the consciousness of cockroaches(probably why they
make
difficult pets). Isn't consciousness part of this problem?
My remark was a bit facetious, but the point is valid, if a little bit
anthropomorphized: If a thing exists, it was brought into being by a
process that included a result, an end state (telos). and the thing
was the end state of the process.
