Re: advice needed for Star Trek talk

2010-12-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Dec 2010, at 20:24, Brent Meeker wrote: On 12/14/2010 7:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Ron, I think the path to seeing the mind as a program is easier in this way: 1. It's not what the parts of the brain are made of its how they function which determines behavior 2. This leads to the

Re: advice needed for Star Trek talk

2010-12-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Dec 2010, at 16:30, Jason Resch wrote: Ron, I think the path to seeing the mind as a program is easier in this way: 1. It's not what the parts of the brain are made of its how they function which determines behavior 2. This leads to the idea of multiple realizability

Re: advice needed for Star Trek talk

2010-12-15 Thread ronaldheld
Jason: I do not think a neutron take more trhan a finite amount of voltage to be able to fire. I do wonder if merely replacing the bio parts by processing hardware, do you lose the part of the complexity of the mind? Np problem with an antimatter man and mind. Ronald On Dec 14, 10:30 am,