[extropy-chat] Consciousness is a process inmulti-dimensionaltime.

[Jef Allbright]

gts, as often is the case, I can't tell whether you're trying to be
profound, or just being polemical.

So, instead of the toothpicks, substitute hydrogen atoms linked with
oxygen atoms in a two to one arrangement.  An emergent property, not
present in the components, is wetness.

- Jef




On 12/20/05, gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:54:25 -0500, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Take six ordinary toothpicks...If matter be once without containership,
> > it can only be made to havecontainership by some new modification, but
> > all the modification whichit can admit are equally unconnected with
> > containership.
>
> Is that really true? Toothpicks contain wood fibers, and wood fibers
> contain molecules, and molecules contain atoms, and atoms contain
> subatomic particles, and subatomic particles contain God only knows what.
>
> So matter may be once with containership.
>
> -gts
>
>
>
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