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Purpose And Consciousness

Submitted by samkaplan on Mon, 02/12/2007 - 2:04pm.

I think I agree with you that consciousness is required for purpose—let's just call it free will, since that's what we're really talking about.

In which case, though I agree that the one requires the other, I would first like you to prove to me that we are conscious and that the decisions we make are conscious decisions.

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