On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com>wrote:
> St: --Are you unsure if you're conscious?-- *No, I am human, so I "THINK" I am sure. That is no evidence. See my note to your next * *remark:* --------- St: --Do you deny that there is even an APPEARANCE of an association or supervenience or causation?-- *Of course not! appearance, or imagination are human treats. * *We assign them to the already absorbed world-knowledge at all times (from the cabe on). Our present level is a fine one.* *Not the final, for sure. We continually learn more and more.* ---------- St: --That the brain is computable means only that the physics determining the brain's observable behaviour can be simulated by a computer with an arbitrarily large amount of memory. But nothing is implied about the technical feasibility of this.-- *The BRAIN?? was it ever justified how mentality is generated BY the brain? I asked lots of questions, about topically slanted (colored??) mAmps or meaning-carrying blood-flows, even idea-loaded astrocytes(?), or those 'codes' (?) said applicable when retrieving memories (stored allegedly by those same configurational codes) - I got no reply. * * * *And you emphasised "OBSERVABLE" (meaning as of today).* * * *I call the brain a tool, which - of course - can be simulated on a suitable computer. Your last phrase may even be my reply. "Science" still lacks the guts to say "I dunno". Which may be interfering with many new discoveries contradicting the ' so far scientifically believed'. * *Regards* *JM* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
