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If human conciousness is just a meat mechanism, and conciousness is an illusion, would we not all be superior, have quicker reflexes, do our work more efficiently, if we had no consciousness?
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009
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If human conciousness is just a meat mechanism, and conciousness is an illusion, would we not all be superior, have quicker reflexes, do our work more efficiently, if we had no consciousness?
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009
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Until you regain conciousness you WILL be treated.
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He admits to the possibility/probablity that conciousness is a direct artifact of quantum mechanics but, for some reason, he wants to downplay the role of microtubules.
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The reasons for this condition of the collective conciousness is infinately interesting, however, and should be debated in order to rescue authentic democracy from the simulacra of democratic norms that make changing the status quo seem a quixotic endeavor.
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People at my school were doing it Last Year! there was this thing where if u get 3 people to put pressure on someones chest against a wall they would pass out and regain conciousness a few minutes later, needless to say these were the same people failing all their classes.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Boy dies playing ‘passing out game,’ officials believe 2005
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Another instance of so grossly unjust, so palpable, so general an evil that it has occasionally aroused some protest even from our dull conciousness is this: the enforced attitude of the woman toward marriage.
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Another way to look at this – although it doesn’t solve the above problem – is that without the transcendent, to explain conciousness we have to resort to something called panpsychism; if Mind is real and there is nothing other than the material, then the material must contain consciousness and all things must posses a degree of being conscious.
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Another way to look at this – although it doesn’t solve the above problem – is that without the transcendent, to explain conciousness we have to resort to something called panpsychism; if Mind is real and there is nothing other than the material, then the material must contain consciousness and all things must posses a degree of being conscious.
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By now the American conciousness is so badly out of kilter that there really can’t be anything other than a degree of difference between Edwards and people like MattY.
Matthew Yglesias » My John Edwards Problem, And At Least Some of Ours 2007
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