> > 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.
I did not say that. I was talking about concepts (mind) only. > > 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. That is what I said/meant. Mapped to informatics/computing, the brain is represented by hardware plus operating system; the mind is the knowledge that OpenEHR et al. try to abstract in concepts, stored as software. Neural Networks is another issue. They try to imitate the functioning of the physical brain. But it is the _concepts_ learned by neural networks what we talk about here. Christian - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
