On Sunday 17 June 2007 07:53:38 am Eric Baum wrote: > I claim that it is the very fact that you are making decisions about > whether to supress pain for higher goals that is the reason you are > conscious of pain. Your consciousness is the computation of a > top-level decision making module (or perhaps system). If you were not > making decisions waying (nuanced) pain against higher goals, > you would not be conscious of the pain.
It's like anything else -- you tend to do it consciously at first, but it gets "compiled down" to lower levels and happens automatically to a greater or lesser extent thereafter. Josh ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
