Re: Phenomenological Continuity and Discontinuity

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:39:22 GMT

On Mon, 31 May 2004 22:52:00 -0400, "Jim Hunter"
<jimhunter1@comcast.net> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

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>"Lester Zick" <lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:40bb94e6.41706083@netnews.att.net...
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>> Phenomenological Continuity and Discontinuity
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>> There seems to be an inordinate amount of discussion on the topic of
>> phenomenological continutiy and discontinuity related to sentience and
>> computer programs, etc. that doesn't make a great deal of sense.
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>> Phenomena of all kinds are continuous to the extent they have any kind
>> of material foundation at all.
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> That's hardly true. Since Philosphers and Psychologist still can't seem
> to get their head out of their ass, and stop confusing the
> term "Phenomena" with their idiotic terminolgy from Behaviorism
> and the CIA called Epi-Phenomena. So they are adviced to turn
> the TV off, get a real job working with some organization
> other than Communist China or NAZI Germany and start working with
> REAL computers rather than their retarded Zero-IQ Bill Gates Golden
>Parachutes.

I have no idea what any of this means vis-a-vis the topic of this
thread.

>That means the brain and its operations
>> as well as computers and their operations.
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> The brain is a chemical soup. It's operations are like
> computers only in the way a bowling ball is
> like a bowling pin.
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Regards - Lester