On Oct 17, 6:50 am, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> > Well I'm going to stop guessing about what Stathis thinks and let him > > chime in if he wants to. > There is no downward causation from high > level to low level, since that would look like magic. Or it would look like ordinary voluntary action. Otherwise you would have to say that your neurons are moving your fingers on a keyboard and typing things that you only are aware of after the fact. You would have to say that you only imagine that you understand their meaning and have a false memory of deciding to write them. That sounds a lot more like magic to me. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.