[MD] The SOM/MOQ discrepancy.

[Platt Holden]

> [Ham]
> > An existent is something that is empirically identifiable by its
> properties 
> > or attributes.  Consciousness cannot be quantified, localized or
> objectively 
> > experienced.  Its origin is explainable only by a transcendent reality,
> > whereas existents can be explained in terms of cause-and-effect. 
> Therefore, 
> > consciousness is not an existent.
> 
> My consciousness can localized in space & time.  When I am conscious
> of a sound it is always where I am.  Also I had no consciousness before
> I
> was conceived & don't expect any after I die. This all has a causal
> explanation.
> Therefore, I must conclude my consciousness exists after all.
> Craig

A nice exposition of the individual and the self, condemned by both 
materialists and mystics as hallucinations. I conclude both the individual 
and the self exist after all -- and I don't mean exist as figments of 
imagination -- as fundamental to consciousness. 

Platt