On Saturday, September 29, 2012 2:14:34 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Craig Weinberg > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > The spark plugs don't fire in response to the will of the driver, the > brain > > does. This isn't magic, this is the ordinary process by which we > participate > > in the world in every waking moment of our lives. It is not the same. > > Building a car that you can drive with your mind is one thing, building > a > > car that can predict where you want to drive to next month is completely > > different. > > But the atoms in the food I ate for dinner that will be incorporated > into my brain don't know what I'm going to do next month. All they > have to do is behave like every other carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen etc. > atom in the universe. Whatever my brain does, it does it with those > interchangeable components. >
At the level in which there are interchangeable components, there is no brain. At the level at which we can describe a brain, the context is a whole living organism. Your view conflates what I call the micro-impersonal level with higher impersonal levels and the perceptual frame of impersonal representations with the perceptual frame of personal presentations. Craig > > -- > Stathis Papaioannou > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/0yzrPhaAMFwJ. 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.
