Hi Patrick:
> I'm not sure if I get "the conscious is part of the unconscious in an
> active state". Do you mean simply that consciousness is a kind of active
> state of the brain? If so, I disagree with it. I associate (maybe wrongly)
> it with the view that matter was somehow out there, until reproducing
> chemicals had found a sufficient complex enough organization to magically
> have a consciousness emerge out of it. I think experience (consciousness)
> was (and is) there first (to avoid a common misinterpretation,
> consciousness I don't merely mean SELF-consciousness. Matter of
> terminology).
I agree "experience was (and is) there first." I think Erin's post that
talked about information processing plants backs up our view. So does
the MOQ, IMO.
Platt
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