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Originally posted by saltfish
The very knowledge and will that you displayed while typing that paragraph is nothing more than a culmination of developed and nurtured behavior that has been molded in what you call your "self."
The gift of concious thought is painful at best, it makes you want to explain, that which you are intimate with permantly (self). Only when you can remove yourself from a situation, can you accurately and objectively evaluate it. Thus, it is so difficult to explain your concious thought. So we have given it names like soul and spirit.. ..but we just wana sugar-coat it and make it special.
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First of all, the very fact that I *THINK* I am conscious, proves that I do.
It is perfectly concievible to think of a "man machine" which acts purely on a stimulus:response basis, but would not have consciousness.
The fact that I percieve a self is proof that I have a self. What I am intrested in, is that
nature of that self. Denying it's existence is not an explaination.
Second of all, I want sugar coated nothing.