At Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:01:25 +0000, you wrote:
>
>In message <c5e6edfa.36cc669f@aol.com>, MemeLab@aol.com writes
>>In a message dated 2/18/99 8:37:57 AM Central Standard Time, MemeLab@aol.com
>>writes in response to Robin:
>>
>><< BTW, this seems to be a common response on this list. If you don't agree
>>with
>> somebody, call their position a "semantics game". You aren't the first
>>person
>> to do so this week. Such an accusation makes it at least as possible that
>>you
>> didn't understand, or didn't want to understand, as that I was merely
>>"playing
>> a semantics game". Consider more possibilities.
>>
>> -Jake>>
>>
>>After looking back over this, I don't think this is what you were
>necessarily
>>doing. It just sounded a little similar to what Reed definitely was
>doing,
>>and I was a little annoyed at that.
>
>OK, please ignore what I said about this in the one I just sent.
>
>>I still don't see that there is a
>>necessary distinction between a "material" and a "social" world view,
>much
>>less inconsistencies between them.
>
>See my replies to both yourself and David.
>--
>Robin
The position that self-awareness may emerge from the complex patterns and interactions of matter and energy is known in philosophicals as emergent materialism.
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher