Re: virus: Technology (was manifest science)

Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Mon, 7 Jun 1999 01:31:07 -0500

Date sent:      	Sun, 6 Jun 1999 20:54:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:           	Dylan Durst <ddurst@levien.com>
To:             	virus@lucifer.com
Subject:        	Re: virus: Technology (was manifest science)
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> > I answered your question. What is ontogenetically below our
> > individual human consciousnesses, and supports and grounds
> > them, are cognitive processes of which we are experientially
> > unaware. What is phylogenetically below human consciousness
> > per se is the consciousness achieved by other terrestrial life forms.
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> Joe, I'm speaking of a stack. All the smaller problems are on top
> (imagine an upside down piramid). What is ontogenetically below us? I claim,
> again, that the assumption that our awareness is the base is silly.
>
I never claimed that; in fact I asserted the opposite when I wrote "cognitive processes of which we are experientially unaware". And turn your pyramid over. There's a lot more of which we ARE NOT experientially aware going on in our brains than of which we ARE experientially aware.
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> - dylan
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