Re: more, briefly

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Fri, 10 Apr 1998 11:20:52 -0500

At 09:07 AM 4/10/98 -0700, Adrian Teo wrote:
>> At 04:51 PM 4/7/98 -0400, Massimo Pigliucci wrote:
>> Similarly, consciousness is clearly an epiphenomenon
>> >of neuronal connections in the brain.

Can you define mathematically, the term 'epiphenomenon'? I hear this term
bandied about by mechanists like design is bandied about by the ID group,
but I don't see how one can give it an objective definition. It has all the
smell of a subjective term to me.

glenn

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