Re: The Mind (off topic, but then, is anything off topic on this list?)

John M wrote: Eric, your proposal sounds like: "here I am and here is my mind" . What gave you the idea that "the two" can be thought of as separate entities? The fact that we differentiate between a bowel movement and a thinking process in philosophy ... does not MAKE them separate entities.

Morality and Many Worlds

Science Fiction writer Greg Egan has a short story online at http://www.netspace.net.au/~gregegan/MISC/SINGLETON/Singleton.html that deals with some of the ethical implications of the Many Worlds Interpretation of QM. It describes the motivation for the invention of the "Qusp", a device Egan has a

Re: The Mind (off topic, but then, is anything off topic on this list?)

Eric, your proposal sounds like: "here I am and here is my mind" . What gave you the idea that "the two" can be thought of as separate entities? The fact that we differentiate between a bowel movement and a thinking process in philosophy and constructed separate noumena for 'mental' and 'bodily' a