> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 01:37:41 -0700 (PDT), turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

>>On Apr 6, 4:16 am, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:

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>>> Your ideas were considered long ago.
>>> For instance 1967, The Ghost in the Machine :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine

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>>> Today brains are recognized as nanotech information
>>> processes, with many processes going on in parallel
>>> and in distributed fashions, capable of producing such
>>> "experienced" illusions as qualia as virtual reality attributes.

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>>> Today the mysteries are into impersonal manifests, such as
>>> universal "organizing principles" that manifest matter, energy, space,
>>> time, and information structures such as "personal" brains.
>>> The mysteries ask "Why is there something, rather than nothing?"
>>> Unfortunately, so far, any understandings have not supported
>>> the human need for hubris. But there it is.

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>>And often it's pleasurable.

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>>For example i might find myself in a shotgun shack.

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>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYbUCvz1LYE&NR=1

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> That's amazing! The existential mysteries!
>
> More like that please.