Quoting Stathis Papaioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 27/01/2008, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the evidence of billions of years of evolution says that the mind doesn't
work without the body. No body, no mind. No physics, no psychology, no AI.
If it can't move, it can't think. (And I think, thanks in part to mirrror
neurons, that we are now on the verge of finally pinning down why. But
that's another post).
So should paralysis or amputation make someone less intelligent?
|I do not think that this is the question, though. If one is born paralysed (I
have taken care of a cerebral palsy kid when I was young) - there is no
knowledge and no possibility of learning co-ordinbated movements (limbs and
thoughts). I| am sure this depends on the severity of the non able bodied
person. If one has the memory, it is different. My partner has lost an arm, it
is still existent in his mind, he feels pain in it occasionally and he forgets
sometimes that he hasn't got it anymore. I think this is not about
intelligence, but it is about our mind being inter-dependent (also via
evolution) with senses and body.
Gudrun
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Stathis Papaioannou
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