"you are a very small shell script that thinks it's the data being piped through it"

[lilamp]

an interesting take on the theory of self , ganked from src.

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[ducati.livejournal.com]

yeah... this is kind of a new-ish (in academic terms) school of thought. pioneered pretty scientifically well by this dude.

[ducati.livejournal.com]

and to reply to my own comment... there's also, interestingly enough, an emerging field of similar thought amongst high performance athletes. step aside, yo. let the real player do the work.

kind of like the author indicates, there's tons of chatter on the subject if you just listen for it. who says athletes aren't thinkers? ;-)

[divsca.livejournal.com]

Interesting that this was coincidentally posted on salon.com today:

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/09/25/is_she_conscious/

[ducati.livejournal.com]

And for some really sobering perspective:

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/coma/index.html