"Ray Scanlon" <rscanlon at wsg.net> writes:
>Neil Rickert wrote in message <71ioga$ks6 at ux.cs.niu.edu>...
>>No, I am not a Marxist, and I do not consider DNA a dirty word. I
>>happen to like science to be accurate, and not just a set of "Just
>>So" stories.
>Wouldn't we all.
>It is for this reason that I argue that people should use the word "soul"
>instead of "mind" when referring to that which is aware.
The problem with this is that it conflicts with ordinary usage. The
usual idea is that the soul is spiritual or immaterial, whereas the
mind might well be material - something like an executing process or
virtual machine. Since I don't believe in souls, I prefer the term
mind.
