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Old 03-27-2008, 06:33 PM
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Edited to fix errors ....my usual bad habit of clicking 'post' before reading

I disagree with Dr Clive Wynne on .....

(1) He claims language is the cause of consciousness? I think this is nonsense. Consciousness must proceed language. A word points to a conscious experience, it does not create consciousness. One does not drive the word 'car', one does not feed the word 'dog', words only point to a conscious experiences , therefore must proceed language.... words do not describe colours they point to conscious images of these, words are meaningless unless one has conscious experience of what these represent.

(2)Unconscious emotion? What does he mean? How can one know one has an emotion without experiencing it? One can of course have unconscious habits but if emotional, these must be conscious to at least some degree or we would be unaware of them.

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