--- In [email protected], "Hugo" <richardhughes...@...> wrote:
> I'm verging on giving up here, every time I > spend more than a few minutes on a post > my computer crashes when I press send. > Does anyone else get this problem? Is your computer male? It's quite a common problem with the male of the species. [snip] > Give science a chance, it has only just > started probing the brain and it's a joyous > and strange machine to be sure but already > we know that consciousness arises somehow in > the reticular activating system. Knock out the > RAS and you knock out the person whether they > are thinking about being a bat or not. Is that last point significant? The fact RAS is a necessary condition doesn't make it a sufficient condition, does it? As per the "The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness" article - an eyeball is a necessary condition for sight. But is the eyeball "what sight IS"? (Or even if you add in all the optical nerves and other mush)
