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

[gts]

"It was never supposed [the poet Imlac said] that cogitation is inherent  
in matter, or that every particle is a thinking being. Yet if any part of  
matter be devoid of thought, what part can we suppose to think? Matter can  
differ from matter only in form, bulk, density, motion and direction of  
motion; to which of these, however varied or combined, can consciousness  
be annexed? To be round or square, to be solid or fluid, to be great or  
little, to be moved slowly or swiftly one way or another, are modes of  
material existence, all equally alien from the nature of cognition. If  
matter be once without thought, it can only be made to think by some new  
modification, but all the modification which it can admit are equally  
unconnected with cogitative powers."

Samuel Johnson

-gts