On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:35 AM, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > Stasthis, > let me barge in with one fundamental - not dispersing my reply into those > (many and long) details: > As I read your comments/replies (and I agree with your position within the > limits I want to expose here), I have the feeling that you agree with the > rest of the combatants in considering 'the brain', our idea about > 'intelligence' and 'consciousness' as complete and total. I argue that it is > not. Upon historic reminiscence all such inventory about these (and many > more) concepts has been growing by addition and by phasing out imaginary > 'content' as we 'learn', - an ongoing process that does not seem to have > reached the ultimate end/completion. > So you are right in considering whatever we new yesterday (my substitution > for today) but not including what we may know tomorrow. Drawing conclusions > upon incomplete inventory does not seem acceptable.
We have to do our best with the information we have, don't we? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
