On Sunday, August 25, 2019, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:26 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sunday, August 25, 2019, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Yes and insurance is different from cash. So what? A bit is just a >>> physical thing that you choose to regard purely in terms of its >>> computational relations...we calll the "abstractions" for a reason. >>> >> >> Under your own definition of abstraction above, there is a distinction >> between a mind and a brain. >> > > Just as there is a distinction between scissors and cutting a piece of > paper. Mind is what a brain does, just as cutting paper is what scissors > do. It is the difference between a noun and a verb. Not that one is an > abstraction from the other. > > Bruce > > But a mind doesn't require a brain to do what the brain does. A Turing machine can replicate any finitely describable process, so if the brain is finite it would be more accurate to say a mind is what a particular program does. Jason -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUjptmzXk0YaKhyNa5jT1x8OYM0VLasrnLz_Ybs7WQSxLA%40mail.gmail.com.
