X-Message-Number: 7976 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 22:16:06 -0800 From: Tim Freeman <> Subject: Seat of consciousness? I don't get all this talk about a "seat of consciousness" or a "seat of feeling". I'll agree that, given suitable definitions of "consciousness" and "feeling", we might have to agree that these things exist. But do they have to have a "seat"? My computer computes, but I can't say which of those pesky transistors is the seat of computation for the computer. My bread machine makes bread, but I can't say which cubic millimeter of machinery is the seat of bread-making. My car moves forward when I push the gas, but I can't identify which part of the engine is the seat of forward-going. I'm sitting on my chair, but do I have to have a seat of sitting? (Maybe so on the last one. :-) So why do we need a seat of consciousness or a seat of feeling? -- Tim Freeman http://www.infoscreen.com/resume.html Web-centered Java and Perl programming in Silicon Valley or offsite Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7976