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Old 02-January-2009, 05:28 PM
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And the "seeming" can come from the fact that each space-time instance of our consciousness codes up its "present" interactions and its "past" interactions, but not its "future" interactions. Any moment of my conscious experience contains a sense of an expanding past, as I remember the past, and remember remembering the past.

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Another possibility---supported by Von Neummann's Chain---is that consciousness does indeed exist independently; it would be part of the system, but also outside it. Not saying that is the case, just saying it could be.
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