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  1. This is all very interesting. The real answer is: "We don't know!" And I suppose we won't be sure of these answers until someone truly identifies what physically constitutes conciousness and then physically reproduces it.
  2. Thank you all for this illucidating conversation on Christmas! This is my first post. I am atheistic. But I grew up with Christmas and have a very dim view of those who try to remove that title from this celebratory day! Personally I don't make a big day of it! I grew up poor and have never become rich though I support free enterprise. I am a musician who provides for himself and am happy with that. So celebrating by giving gifts - well, I'd rather give gifts when I want to than when some community appointed day suggests it. But I like the idea that by bringing a green tree inside we preserve life that has pretty much gone dormant in the nature ouside. (I live in the Northeast) And the candles, too, are to me a symbol of that life. And then we have the beautiful music. Christian or not - this art, is awe inspiring, even if I sometimes have to choke at certain texts! I grew up with it and it's uplifting in a nostalgic as well as artistic sense. I've been with older folks in an assisted living facility who were told to call the Christmas tree a "Holiday tree". Hey - C'mon let's let them have their joy!
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