Can you justify that in a noncircular way? What's a mind, and why doesn't a glass have one?
Is someone really obligated to define "mind" just in order to demonstrate that a glass is not in the set of things that has one? I can't define "game" but "the weak nuclear force" is not an example of one.
Where are the new monthly threads when I need them? A pox on the +11 EDT zone!
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