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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (24293)7/2/2006 12:56:00 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
... if kept mostly within the context....

I agree. It's just that staments of the type you highlighted:

THERE IS NO life without consciousness - consciousness and life are one and the same.

are so vague that they don't illuminate a discussion.

Words such as life and consciousness don't necessarily have a precise meaning. Much of the discuss then involves a process of flipping between alternative venacular meanings in a logical fallacy called Equivocation.



To: 2MAR$ who wrote (24293)7/3/2006 1:00:04 AM
From: LLCF  Respond to of 28931
 
<earlier qualifying of "intelligent creatures "><the discussion of consciousness should take on more relevant and quantitative meaning if kept mostly within the context of at least the higher vertebrates....>

I mentioned the need for defining and speaking of this to both you and Solon long ago and met with derision. Why would you want the context of intelligence to be the higher vertebrates??

DAK


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