> >
> Gary's Response: The mind is the "place" of all
> mental activities. It is
> the experience of having a body that can process and
> be aware of existing.
> The mind is recognizing that we can hear own
> thoughts and that we can see,
> feel, taste, touch, etc. The self is our construct
> that develops over time
> to identify ourselves and different from other
> people we meet.
> Self-awareness is the process built into our body,
> especially in our nervous
> system. If when we sleep we dream then we are
> experiencing self-awareness.
> If when we sleep we do not seem to dream then there
> is no experience of
> self-awareness. Self-awareness is an experience of
> a process of mental
> activity of the body. "mind-awareness"? Perhaps.
> Those objects:
> cameras, thermometers, tears, etc are all passive
> tools which were not built
> to be aware of the activities that they are engaged
> in doing. Thus no
> self-awareness. No mind. The mind requires a self
> reflexive,
> self-reflective, and recursive structure.
>
> Gary
Your argument style is a stream of assertions. I will
leave you with those assertions intact.
Blue is red.
cheers,
André
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