I agree of course with Richard Rorty who said that the idea there is a mind that something that is outside the brain/body is one of the worst ideas ever concocted in history.
Information is processed in computers with electrons moving in electronic circuits. - pt On Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 8:19:40 AM UTC-6, Mark Buda wrote: > > Information is only processed in minds, not in physical systems, unless > you can show that minds are physical systems. I believe minds are > mathematical objects, as are physical systems, and that minds are a > particular kind of mathematical object. I strongly suspect that the > particular kind of mathematical object that minds are is called a lawless > choice sequence. > > Still doing some reading and thinking on that, though. > > -- > Mark Buda <[email protected] <javascript:>> > I get my monkeys for nothing and my chimps for free. > > On Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 8:54 AM John Clark <[email protected] <javascript:> > wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 6:23 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> *> If experience (Galen Strawson, The Subject of Experience) is the >>> result of information (only) processing, * >>> >> >> If? If information is not the thing that needs processing to produce >> intelligence then what is? >> >> > then the argument for arithmetical (Platonic) reality holds. >>> >> >> Only if somebody can show how information, or anything else, can be >> processed without using matter that obeys the laws of physics. And, despite >> the existence of books made of dead trees with black squiggles made of ink >> with a high Carbon content pressed onto them, nobody has even come close to >> doing that. >> >> 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.
