Hermital wrote:
>
> 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
>
Algorithm to emulate all thoughts.
Given thought T, think "T".
QED, ex post facto, and excelsior.
---
Jim
