Re: Science and Unemployment...

David Tonhofer (tonhofer@inf.ethz.ch)
4 Jul 1995 00:46:55 +0200

In article <3sq6l3$el5@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>,
Madhudvisah dasa Swami <shelter@peg.apc.org> wrote:
>rayvt@comm.mot.com (Ray Van Tassle) wrote:
>
>>In article <3snjp4$64e@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>, shelter@peg.apc.org
>>(Madhudvisah dasa Swami) wrote:
>
>>Hogwash.
>>"Science" "generally won't consider the possibility of the existence of
>>the soul" because nobody has found anything which can be detected or
>>measured.
>
>You can't detect consciousness? It is not at all difficult. You can see
>consciousness, life, you can detect it. AND YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN IT either...

To quote Minsky out of context: "That's because it's too simple to
explain, not too difficult."

>The only logical explanation is consciousness is a symptom of something
>that leaves the body at death... That something is the soul...

Boy, you will be disappointed...

Software don't run without the hardware. ;-)

-- David