> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:33:00 -0700 (PDT), turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

>>On Aug 30, 9:38 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:

>>> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:13:26 -0700 (PDT), turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

>>>>An explicit neural representation of red is created that invariably
>>>>    and automatically 'reports' this to higher brain centres

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>>> That is tantamount to deception,
>>> pragmatic but deception because those higher brain centers
>>> buy into the low level reported representation as reality.

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>>Nothing will be a reality.
>>For now; something is a reality.

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>>Hopefully; usually something is better than nothing.

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>>Nothing is a zombie; unconcious.
>>Something is a devil; "free" will.

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> The paradigm of what it is and means to be human is under
> stress. I predict a new religion out of this stress, a new set of
> stories that will help us finite ones to satisfy our hubris and meaning
> needs in the face of stories of our insignificance and meaninglessness.