Good one. Haven't read it yet but just wanted to say that I have never had trouble with this idea - clearly Platonic in nature but beyond that, possibly the most clearly intuitive and ancient notion known to Man. Bruno's idea still strikes me as the best formulation of it, but most are yet to embrace the full implications of comp.
Kim > On 25 Dec 2014, at 8:17 pm, Evgenii Rudnyi <[email protected]> wrote: > > In paper > > Forsdyke, D.R. (2009). Samuel Butler and human long term memory: is the > cupboard bare? Journal of Theoretical Biology 258(1), 156-164. (see > http://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/mind01.htm) > > the author considers a possibility that the long term memory is outside the > brain. I guess that Bruno should like it. > > "The suggestion of the medieval physician Avicenna that the brain ‘cupboard’ > is bare, – i.e. the brain is a perceptual, not storage, organ – is consistent > with a mysterious ‘universe as holograph’ model." > > "Charles Darwin spent much time setting out various combinations of 26 units > in linear order on paper. Yet, that each cell of an organism might contain > similar digital information, now known as DNA, was beyond his conceptual > horizon. Likewise, many today compute using remote information storage yet > are unlikely to countenance the possibility that their own brains might > functioning similarly." > > Best wishes, > > Evgenii > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
