On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:57 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > That is not exactly what I said. Mind is what a brain does -- and maybe other things can do what a brain does, although we do not have any examples of this as yet. I did not claim that a brain is what a mind does.... Bruce 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. > -- 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/CAFxXSLTOw3fpwP1gb0ApX3tS1i%2BoxjMZfs-_%3DHJ%2Beach-VaW9Q%40mail.gmail.com.
