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Re: Consciousness Explained - New book

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The Starmaker wrote:
> Ned Latham wrote:
> > Edgar L. Owen wrote:
> > >
> > > Consciousness is part of reality and must be covered in a true
> > > TOE even though physics completely ignores it. Thus physics
> > > itself can't possibly construct a true TOE.
> >
> > Nonsense.
> >
> > > Consciousness isn't a physical phenomenon
> >
> > It is a *consequence* of three physical phenomena:
> >
> > 1. The development of cell structures with a capacity for the
> >    behaviours that we call "memory";
> > 2. The development in those cells of a capacity for the behaviours
> >    that we call "habituation" and "aversion";
> > 3. The development of massively complex structures in which squillions
> >    of those cells interact.
> >
> > No need to "add something" to the everything.
>
> Those three points creates the "illusion" of ...consciousness.

It's an illusion in *some* cases.

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Consciousness Explained - New book "Edgar L. Owen" <Edgar@edgarlowen.com> - 2017-07-15 08:07 -0700
  Consciousness Explained - New book "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-07-15 08:26 -0700
    Re: Consciousness Explained - New book "Edgar L. Owen" <Edgar@edgarlowen.com> - 2017-07-15 10:58 -0700
  Consciousness Explained - New book "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-07-15 08:28 -0700
  Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Garfield Dieter <igdle@rdlge.rf> - 2017-07-15 18:29 +0000
    Re: Consciousness Explained - New book "Edgar L. Owen" <Edgar@edgarlowen.com> - 2017-07-15 12:23 -0700
      Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Garfield Dieter <igdle@rdlge.rf> - 2017-07-15 19:55 +0000
        Re: Consciousness Explained - New book "Edgar L. Owen" <Edgar@edgarlowen.com> - 2017-07-15 14:48 -0700
          Re: Consciousness Explained - New book "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-07-15 14:49 -0700
          Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Winfred Plumer <lewru@pulwr.cn> - 2017-07-17 15:37 +0000
  Consciousness Explained - New book "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-07-15 15:43 -0700
  Re: Consciousness Explained - New book The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-15 15:48 -0700
  Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-07-16 19:51 -0500
    Re: Consciousness Explained - New book The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-16 21:14 -0700
      Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-07-17 04:55 -0500
        Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-07-20 06:41 -0500
  Re: Consciousness Explained - New book RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2017-07-21 15:14 -0700
    Re: Consciousness Explained - New book The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-21 18:24 -0700
      Re: Consciousness Explained - New book The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-23 11:21 -0700

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