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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:24:36 -0500
Subject: dogmas?

It certainly isn't very important, but it was pretty careless of Mike Darwin
(#5661) to call me a "dogmatist." I have no dogmas, and he hasn't absorbed
what I have said on the subjects he refers to--two of them basically, related
but different.

1. Criteria of identity or of survival: I have repeatedly said that this
question is unresolved.

2. Seat or source of feeling and consciousness, the "self circuit" or
"subjective circuit:" I have merely pointed out that (a) we know it exists
(whether or not the name is well chosen) since we have feeling and
consciousness; and (b) given reasonable assumptions, it must be some subset
of the brain and its functions. 

No dogmas here, just us chickens.

Robert Ettinger   


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