Re: Making money from Java


<docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dnor3i$qqi$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <PsEnf.146354$y_1.67386@edtnps89>,
> Oliver Wong <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> But either way, whether the electrons in my brain are deterministic or
>>underministic, it STILL isn't my fault; the electrons in my brain STILL
>>made
>>me do it!
>
> Ummmmm... Mr Wong, where does 'me' exist in your statememt?

Your question is known to philosophers as the famous "Mind-Body
problem". (And so I won't pretend to be able to answer it in a satisfying
way).

I should have said "The electrons in my brain made my body do it!" to
avoid the whole "which part of this is me?" question. This also nicely
reflects the belief that the body is just a machine, albeit a very complex
one.

> Just curious;
> in modern parlance it is often said of a body which no longer registers
> electroencephalographic (EEG) activity, or 'flatlines' that 's/he's no
> longer in there'.

Yes, when there is no more such activity, the person is typically
considered "legally dead". I wasn't addressing the legal aspects of life and
death in my post, but rather the philosophical ones.

- Oliver


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