> physical brain == carrier of knowledge == neurons, synapses etc. == real world But they are not interconnected in a hierarchy only, to the best of my knowledge.
> The mind knows about itself and its physical carrier, the brain. But the > functioning of the brain has nothing to do with the abstract concepts > build within it. I tend to think that Nature had no abstract concepts "in mind" when "building" the brain. Rather abstract concepts are what we with our limited ability to comprehend use to reduce complex things to something we *can* understand, no ? Eg. the brain simply IS but we use abstract concepts to *describe* what we understand of it. Unless you want to reduce those abstract concepts to Laws of Nature - which have nothing much to do with why or whether the brain is internally connected hierarchially or web-like. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
