At 07:01 PM 1/7/99 +0000, Robin Faichney wrote:
>I don't agree with your dichotomy. You forgot "man-
>made": neither magical nor natural. Not that I'm
I was using "natural" as the opposite of "supernatural", but I agree with your distinction as well.
>saying consciousness is manmade in the usual sense.
Would you say it (consciousness) is like colour in
that sense? That it is necessarily subjective, even
though it is obviously correlated with an external
pattern (wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation in
the case of colour).
>Just that it's a meme that serves a function in
>human relationships, and that there is *nothing*
>"out there" to which it "points". Not just that
>it has fuzzy boundaries, or that we can't define
>it sufficiently well, but that IT AIN'T THERE!
-- David McFadzean david@lucifer.com Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/ Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/