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Re: Sum ergo cogito ? Symbolic situated-consciousness?
Jesse S. Cook III (jcook@AWOD.COM)
Tue, 2 Jul 1996 08:00:14 -0400
On 1 July 1996, Sheldon Klein wrote:
>>>> I can understand from this that, suitably analyzed, "free will" is
>>>> a relic of "folk psychology," but not "consciousness." Is there
>>>> some real reason for linking them?
>>>>
>>>> (Cogent points, BTW)
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>SKlein replied
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>>>Can you make the 'suitable analysis' explicit?
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>>>I sometimes tell my classes that,
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>>> "People don't think- they just think they think."
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>>>A decade ago, this was good for smiles all around.
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>>>Now, to my dismay, it's taken seriously.
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>To which JS Cook III
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>>If you were to qualify that statement by adding "Some" at the beginning, I
>>don't see why it shouldn't be taken seriously. Maybe the students of a decade
>>ago took it literally and the students of today are supplying the missing
>>qualifier.
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> Alas, I am dismayed-- I thought I was answering your question.
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>Cheers.
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>Sheldon
>sklein@cs.wisc.edu
It wasn't my question. Did Mike Shupp ask it?
Jesse S. Cook III E-Mail: jcook@awod.com
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"Our attitude toward others is not determined by who *they* are;
it is determined by who *we* are."
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