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   From: Reanimater_2000@yahoo.com   
      
   "ralph"  wrote in message   
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   > In message , Immortalist   
   >  writes   
   >   
   >>The activities of the nerve cells alone are enough to explain what human   
   >>experience is.   
   >   
   > I guess that you would not want us to take this sentence too literally.   
   > That the experience of a human being is recorded in that human's nerve   
   > cells (as a whole, not individually) is probably not controversial. The   
   > experience of that human being, however, clearly involves his/her physical   
   > attributes and their history, and interactions with the world and its   
   > inhabitants.   
   >   
   > Doncha think?   
   >   
      
   Yes I agree that the stimulation of the nerve cells connected to the sensory   
   apperatus and leading back into the brain are necessary for sustained human   
   experience but if a device could stimulate them in an identical manner the   
   device would replace the much larger world.   
      
   But I believe that the actual experiences we have are the activities of the   
   nerve cells only. Yes nerve cells are influenced by other nerve cells or   
   things connected to them like the world or devices.   
      
   But these are just the most reasonable theories to believe in at this time   
   in history. Some activities that influence the nerve cells could be   
   experience or not but at this time we believe that our experience can be   
   explained by the neural activities.   
      
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