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To: ManyMoose who wrote (135261)	4/3/2001 11:13:23 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I would be very interested in your feedback. I am having difficulty grasping the significance of this (and other) parts of the article. "You know, we have physicists who want to build a so-called Theory of Everything using just a few basics, such as spacetime, mass and charge," Chalmers notes. "They want to explain everything in terms of a few reductionist components. And they can certainly explain a whole lot of complicated stuff that way -- maybe even chemistry, life and behavior. "But consciousness seems to be left out. And so what I tend to think is that if we're reasoning consistently about these things, if we've got something that these fundamentals can't explain, then we need something else which is new and fundamental. So I've argued that perhaps we need to view consciousness as a kind of fundamental constituent of reality." You heard right: The world's foremost thinker on the Hard Problem is speculating -- and Chalmers would be the first to stress it's only speculation, mind you -- that consciousness may one day very well turn out to be a basic building block of the universe. Like photons are to light, or cream filling is to Twinkies, consciousness may prove to be an inherent requirement of all that surrounds and composes us. Thanks.