Re: ::scr long waffley post about consciousness

[Alaric Snell <alaric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 08 April 2002 17:52, you wrote:

> > So eating something would do nothing since the neural tissue of what
> > you eat is not incorporated into your own. Indeed, what you eat is
> > broken down to raw materials and new cells built from that.
>
> Unless the thing you are eating contains alcohol. Or caffeine. Or
> prozac. Or are just really well prepared and delicious, leaving the
> eater feeling more contented (which is a change in their personality
> after all).

Ah, those are temporary influences upon you rather than incorporating 
something into you (unless you count the memories, in which case this drifts 
away from a discussion about an ethereal soul into 'you are the sum of your 
experiences', which is IMHO a different debate)

ABS

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