Re: Consciousness "Hard Problem"

From: Albert (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 12/13/04


Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:21:32 -0600


|-|erc wrote:
<snip>
> Sequences of words have meaning. We literally hear our
> conscious mind string them out never ending at a potential speaking rate, but
> unheard by us in ourselves are collosal sentence fragments processing at computer speeds.
>
> e.g.
> I got the key.... I got the secret.... I got the key to another way.... I got the key

You are truly illiterate.

-- 
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the 
range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally 
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
     -- George Orwell as Syme in "1984"	


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