The alien hypothesis?

[John Doe]

uh...I said Language - not consciousness...the lit
Crit philosophers stress that Language is everything,
not that consciousness is everything...Dennet and
Pinker, et al. stress that language is just one
component, or power, if you will, of human
consciousness...

--- Keith McMullen <keithsz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> from an empirical standpoint, all there is, is
> consciousness.....no way 
> to know if there's anything else.....impossible.....
> 
> On Oct 20, 2005, at 4:33 PM, John Doe wrote:
> 
> ....the famous
> linguistic scientist Steven Pinker, who you would
> think, given the nature of human vanity, has a
> vested
> interest in making his field paramount, denies that
> language is the only, or even necessarily the PRIME
> generator of conciousness, let alone All of
> Reality..
> 
> 



	
		
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