Re: Introduction and comment

Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:37:43 -0800
From: Robert Paul <Robert.Paul@directory.Reed.EDU>
To: quantum-d list <quantum-d@teleport.com>
Subject: Re: Introduction and comment

Stanley Jeffers writes:

> I ...would like to urge colleagues to try 
> to make more suggestions of actual experiments that could 
> be performed to give us insight into the nature of consciousness.
 
If I might ask a brief, but perplexing  question: what question or 
questions about 'the nature of consciousness' might one hope to answer 
by experiment or calculation? And having asked it, let me ask some 
more simple questions. (1) Would 'an insight into the nature of 
consciousness' be part of an answer to the question 'What *is* 
consciousness?' ? (2) Would we recognize the answer--do we know what 
would even begin to count as an answer--to that question, viz., 
'What *is* consciousness?'

All good wishes,

Robert Paul
Reed College
Portland OR
robert.paul@reed.edu

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the referenced posting by Stanley Jeffers is at
http://www.teleport.com/~rhett/quantum-d/posts/jeffers_1-28-96.html