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   From: Benjamin@verizon.net   
      
   "Keynes"  wrote in message   
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   | Inside and outside are concepts.   
   | If you don't think about them, they   
   | aren't there.   
   |   
   | There is a lot of talk about brains.   
   | If one believes he is a brain and that   
   | his thoughts and feelings are merely   
   | the inevitable deterministic chemical   
   | drippings of no significance, where   
   | can that lead?   
   | [...]   
      
   One who 'presumes' to know that   
   which he doesn't, in fact, know 'moves   
   away from' Truth, which is the only cir-   
   cumstance in which 'the' "brain" 'is not   
   there'.   
      
   Absence-of-understanding with respect   
   how and why nervous systems work,   
   does not 'justify' absence-of-under-   
   standing with respect to how and why   
   nervous systems work.   
      
   Yet people Kill, and otherwise Ravage   
   one anothers' Beings 'in the name of'   
   absence-of-understanding with respect   
   to how and why nervous systems work.   
      
   It's a Hard Problem, but it was Resolved   
   'decades' ago.   
      
   The fact that folks still 'move away from'   
   Truth derives in absence-of-communica-   
   tion, not 'inavailability' of the necessary   
   understanding.   
      
   k. p. collins   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)