X-Message-Number: 5241
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 22:35:45 -0500
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <>
Subject: Re: qualia again

In #5226,  writes:
> Now consciousness study is a big field--but even within it, many
> practitioners ... try to study consciousness without involving
> feeling!

There's an article on the study of consciousness and feeling in the
latest (December) _Scientific American_.  It includes a persuasive
thought experiment which purports to prove that a good emulation of
a person would feel.
--
Keith Lynch, 
http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/


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