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Lock With No Key


Is there consciousness

without language ...

 how would you know

 

I believe that there is

but have nothing

to show

 

The ‘Hard Problem’

continues ...

unmetered unrhymed

 

Restated

unproven

— and left ill defined

 

(Radnor High School: January, 2026)

 

 

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Kurt Philip Behm

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Philosophical inquiry into consciousness and language; highly abstract

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