On Tue 4/28/98 02:08 GMT cijadra at zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
>> >> This would tend to sugest that the general architecture of the mind can
> >> be emulated.
> Start with emulating a single cell, DNA, RNA, etc. ... all functions
> within...
>You are either confusing mind with brain or using mind and brain as
synonyms. I view the mind and brain as separate and of different
origins.
Have you ever read John Beloff's excellent series of 5 papers on the
Mind/Brain problem? They can be found online at
http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/~dualism/papers/index.html
Perhaps my view is better articulated in the following manner:
Noncomputational
Humankind
is not the measure
of all things.
Humankind
is only the measure
of human things.
Human beings
are material in origin.
The organic brain
is also
material in origin.
An organic brain can,
in principle,
be emulated
by a single
mathematical
algorithm.
Tangible
organic brains
and intangible
conscious minds
originate
on different levels
of conditional relativity.
Consciousness
is a transcendent
continuum
of physical energy.
Each individual mind
is a transcendent
concatenation
of unique thoughts.
Thought
is noncomputational.
Mind
is noncomputational.
Neither thoughts
nor minds
can be emulated
by a single algorithm.
- Alan Williams
--
Consciousness, Physics and the Holographic Paradigm:
http://www.livingston.net/hermital/intro.htm