On Jul 25, 8:32 am, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > The replacement neurons are integrated so that they interact with the > rest of the brain just as normal brain tissue would. An example is the > one you came up with, neurons without their nucleus, which would > function normally at least for a few minutes.
If they can only function for a few minutes, then that function may not be 'normal' to anything except us as distantly removed observers. > If any of those things happened you would say, "Hey, things look > strange!" But you can't say this, because the normal brain tissue, > including the neurons that enable speech, receive normal input from > the replacement neurons. So either everything looks just the same, or > everything looks different but you can't be aware of any difference. > > (Please don't say that they *don't* receive normal input, because that > is the entire point of the thought experiment establishing > functionalism!) They may receive some normal input, but there may be a lot more input which we have no way to understand from our perceptual distance which gets amputated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
