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To: WriteOn
you equivocate between a narrow definition of intelligence and consciousness. your "faith" requires that consciousness be material.

What are you blathering about? There is no faith involved, beyond a reasonable acceptance that mathematics is probably founded on axioms that are essentially correct. I don't require anything. Anybody who understands theoretical mathematics as it pertains to this topic also understands the relationship between intelligence and consciousness. Do you accept that mathematics is correct or not? Be careful how you answer, as the validity of simple arithmetic is dependent upon the same axioms as my assertion that consciousness is a necessary property of certain types of systems. I will gladly adjust my world view the minute you provide evidence that the mathematics is incorrect. I suspect I'll be waiting for a long time.

Feel free to pontificate with your mental flatulence, but when you actually get around to providing a rigorous refutation of my points, let me know. I'm not going to waste my time on bomb-throwing cowards who can't support their own assertions.

56 posted on 01/23/2005 11:49:17 PM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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To: tortoise

show me the math smart boy. i don't think you got it. if you did, there wouldn't be anything to discuss, we could close up all the neuroscience, philosophy and nlp shops in the world.

you ain't got squat, boy. :D


120 posted on 01/26/2005 6:11:17 PM PST by WriteOn
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