On 03-10-98 Relatif Tuinn wrote to Todd Henson... 
 RT> Define consciousness.  
A system which experiences reality, stores that experience for 
retreival later [includes memmory], makes guesses about the likely 
effect of newer experiences [learns], and is aware of all of these 
processes as it tries to understand itself. 
 
Plato went on so far as to suggest that the memmory of experiences 
continues to exist after death; given the example of mass computer 
storage and the shrinkage of I/O devices like video cameras, there 
is a lotta logic behind the idea that God could, and did, make you 
a backup tape of your life; everything you ever did, said, thought 
about, is recorded.  After you die, you, or anyone who cared about 
who you were, and what you did, could take your tape and put it in 
a cosmic VCR deck to watch every noble and/or despicable thing you 
ever did. 
 
With judgement like that, who needs hell?  How do evildoers *ever* 
live it down?  You think they could lie about it like they do here 
all the time? 
 
With further consideration on the subject, I agree with Zoroaster, 
who said the problem was not 'evil', but dementia and ignorance to 
contend with, as we do here all the time.  Ignorance is relatively 
easy to cure without dementia, but usually the latter is the cause 
of the former, and it is generally incurable.  As again, we see in 
postings where the greatest ignorance is abundantly accompanied by 
the evidence of illogic and dementia.  A fool isn't only untaught; 
he is unteachable. 
 
 
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 RT>     Relatif Tuinn 
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 RT> ... A politician is a person who approaches every subject with an open 
 RT>     mouth 
 RT> --- Spot 1.3a #1413 
 
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 * OFFLINE 1.58 * Monotonous monogamy is a redundancy. 
--- Maximus 3.01
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