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To: jwalsh07
Breathtakingly ignorant.

Apparently, but it's nothing to be ashamed of, and can be corrected.

Here, let me help you out. Since this is only a forum, some brevity is usually in order. Since you ignore context, I could have said, "The development of the brain, alone, does not determine consciousness, because even fully developed brains are not necessarily conscious and frequently are not."

Does that help?

Hank

28 posted on 03/09/2003 5:27:57 PM PST by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief
"The development of the brain, alone, does not determine consciousness, because even fully developed brains are not necessarily conscious and frequently are not."

Actually, that would be a logical fallacy. Consciousness could be a subset of the Brain Development superset, but not intersect with any other superset. Thus Brain Development would determine consciousness, but not all subsets under Brain Development (such as different brain activities) would necessarily interspect the Consciousness subset.

-The Hajman-
29 posted on 03/09/2003 5:31:55 PM PST by Hajman
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