Paul
wrote:
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Oh the part of about a
computer running a program not being an abstraction... this is where one can
drill down into the nature of things to show that software running on a computer
is not of the same category of things as is mental awareness existing within the
mind body interface.
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I agree that software running on a
computer is not the same as mental awareness associated with a
human/brain
However I think
that:
Software running on a computer is
analogous to electrochemical dynamics occurring in the human
brain
Mental awareness associated with a
software program, is analogous to mental awareness associated with
brain-dynamics
I am not reductionist: I don't reduce a
human mind completely to the human brain, nor a computer mind completely to a
software program. I do think there is some added element of
"awareness" that is associated with physically implemented minds, in a way i
don't fully understand. But I don't think I need to understand this in
order to create a digital mind.
-- Ben
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