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> > From: Sodom <sodom@ma.ultranet.com>
>
> > Budda, Armun, Marduke or any of the like. You could make the
> argument
> > that Mother Nature is omniscient, since all knowledge is within it's
>
> > realm. You could make the argument that Mother Nature is Omnipotent,
>
> > since it defines all the laws of reality, you can say we are all
> > connected through mother nature since all of the particles in us
> > interact with their neighbors and eventually reach almost everything
>
> > everywhere. My sticking point is only that I see no reason to
> conclude
> > sentience.
> do you consider your self sentient? Is it just your brain that is
> sentient? Certainly your hair isn't,
> and probably not your feet. But YOU are sentient.
>
> If you agree with all that; we are both presuming that if any one part
> of a
> system is sentient the entire system is
> sentient. Therefore mother nature is sentient.
>
> -paul prestopnik
I consider myself to probably be sentient, and when I think of
"myself" in this manner, I mean the program running on the hardware of
my brain - nothing more. The body is simply a brain us@lucifer.com
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On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> The problem being, of course, that 'saintliness' is in general parlance
> copulating with holiness and miracles,... [snip]
Like the Miracle of the Revelation of Selection performed by St. Darwin
the Blessed upon the minds of misguided unbelievers?
-Prof. Tim
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On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> The problem being, of course, that 'saintliness' is in general parlance
> copulating with holiness and miracles,... [snip]
Like the Miracle of the Revelation of Selection performed by St. Darwin
the Blessed upon the minds of misguided unbelievers?
-Prof. Tim