Bruno I admire you for responding to everything, no matter how irrelevant.
Have a pleasant summer
John

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:

>
> On 22 Jun 2013, at 03:26, Roger Clough wrote:
>
>
> Materialists believe apparently strange things, such as that mind is
> matter.
>
>  What if mind is matter ?
>
>
> Then mind would be quantized, and there would be particles of mind
> (psychon, as someone named it).
>
> Comp would be false, but some other mechanist assumption would remain
> correct. Just be sure your doctor put the right psychon in the artificial
> brain.
>
> I find comp more plausible, and as having a bigger explanatory power. Even
> for matter, I am not convinced by the "particle" idea.
>
> Bruno
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>
>
> If mind is matter, if thought is particular, can you explain then how such
> particles think ?
> Do they mull around until they vote one to be the leader, who organzies
> the rest of the unruly mob ? And what orders does he give them ? Etc.
>
>  Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000]
> See my Leibniz site at
>  http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough
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