On Sep 28, 10:26 am, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 Sep 2011, at 22:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Sep 27, 9:20 am, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > > Noooo. Millions of neurons fire simultaneously in separate regions of > > the brain. Your assumptions about chain reactions being the only way > > that neurons fire is not correct. You owe the brain an apology. > > Digital machines can emulate parallelism. > In all you answer to Stathis you elude the question by confusing > levels of explanation. > So either you postulate an infinitely low level (and thus infinities > in the brain), or you are introducing the magic mentioned by Stathis. >
Yes, this is just a tangent, I'm trying to show that the model of the brain as a chain reaction is factually incorrect. I agree, parallelism says nothing about whether it's computational or not, it's just that Stathis is trying to actually claim that psychological processes cannot drive lower level neurology. Craig -- 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.
