Re: advice needed for Star Trek talk

2010-12-14 Thread Brent Meeker
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 idea of multiple realizability http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: advice needed for Star Trek talk

2010-12-14 Thread Jason Resch
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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_realizability (Brains can be ma