On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 9:05 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.... > > Okay then I think we are in agreement here. 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%2BBCJUj%3D_DKZ5x3NjpBufwBqjXsTNCuuum4nOReSC3FG4%2BFeTw%40mail.gmail.com.
