On 8/26/2019 6:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
What does "distinct" mean in that? It's a distinction you make because you can think of a brain and processes of the brain as separate. Just like you can think of an automobile plant as distinct from the steps required to make a car. But that doesn't mean that a car can be made without any physical process. It is distinct in the sense that bits are different from electrical voltages or scribbles on paper.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. There's not an identity relation between the two, as one discards unnecessary details."Unnecessary" to what? The specification of the mind.But you don't know that. You're merely assuming that a mind can be specified without reference to a physical world in which it exists.If functionalism is true, and if it's description is not infinite, then it can be.
But one of the specifications of the mind may be that it's physically instantiated. Otherwise it couldn't perceive or act.
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