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To: ko_kyi
Are you saying fist/hand = brain/conscience?
4 posted on 05/23/2002 12:02:32 PM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: F16Fighter
Are you saying fist/hand = brain/conscience?

More accurately fist/hand = Conscience/brain. Your question is loaded so that by answering the responder must buy into the implicit premise - that consciousness has an independent reality and is not just the nominal word for a brain doing what a brain does. I am not trying to convince you that that is the case, but rather that anyone can prove a philosophical point by setting the question up in a clever way. Your question is no different from "Are you still beating your wife?" - you get the answer you want regardless of what the answer is.

20 posted on 05/30/2002 7:57:38 AM PDT by ko_kyi
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