A Platonic model of mind  can be described analytically:

        self->mind->brain->body 

This is analytic since it is hierarchical, being one in which the One self 
controls the many.

is a sort of republican form of Government (see Plato's The Republic),
with the more intelligent layers ruling the less intelligent ones.
This might be more susceptible to computer emulation 
This is completely different than that of Materialism,
or reductionistic (logical atomism) model of mind which is 
essentially mob rule:

"Reductionism | Define Reductionism at Dictionary.com
noun 1. the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in 
biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, 
most basic physical mechanisms that ..." etc.

In Freud's version of this we are controlled by unconscious desires, 
essentially being victims of mob rule. One can see this form
of mind in the art of German Expressionalism.






Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000]
See my Leibniz site at
http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough

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