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Re: Questions about the nature of property rights (was Re: ("life affirming" == "no initiation of force") == "all rigihts are property rights"?)
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Tue, 11 Jan 2000 05:23:50 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote:

The ideas I've expressed <URL:http://www.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=3467>
apply only to the physical universe...They specifically don't apply to
ideas and to minds (both animal and human).

I don't accept the concept of property as being applicable to minds at all.
...Because of that, and because minds are different from matter, I
don't accept the idea of property as applying to my mind or to anyone
else's. I'd include animals in this even; our relationship with them is more
complicated than that of simple property.

Well, if you are meaning a mind as different than a brain, I think it's
safe to just call it an idea (in the context you use above).  It's a
complex bit of software.  Whatever intellectual property rights arise
from this whole discussion would then apply.  Or am I way off base?

Chris



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  Re: Questions about the nature of property rights (was Re: ("life affirming" == "no initiation of force") == "all rigihts are property rights"?)
 
(...) That's not clear at all. The mind-as-software concept is one way it may possibly be, but that's actually a fairly radical view. It's something I'm agnostic about until we've got further information. In the meantime, this is such an important (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Questions about the nature of property rights (was Re: ("life affirming" == "no initiation of force") == "all rigihts are property rights"?)
 
I realized that last night I failed to address an important question I'd raised earlier: (...) The ideas I've expressed <URL:(URL) apply only to the physical universe -- that is, matter (and potentially energy, because of that equivalence thing). (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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