Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have no doubt that the brain is a physical computer,
And I also have no doubt mind is what the brain does. > > > and that > > computations performed by the brain are no different from any other > computations. > Good. > > > We are discussing physicalism and computationalism, and if they are > compatible or not > Of course they are compatible! > > > Bruce repeatedly makes variation of the claim: "look, the brain is > physical and the brain generates consciousness, these are the facts". > This is what I am replying to. It's an argument from authority Argument from authority , what the hell are you talking about? In every experiment ever performed when the physical brain changes consciousness changes, and whenever consciousness changes a change in the brain can be found. What more evidence do you need, what more evidence could there even be?? > > Ok, so you are rejecting computationalism. I don't know about Bruce but I'm not rejecting computationalism because I believe the mind is a information processing system. what I'm rejecting is "comp"; Bruno claims his silly homemade word means the same thing but clearly that's not true and the fact is I don't know what it means and I'm not sure Bruno does either. John K Clark -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
