On Friday, April 24, 2015, John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> wrote: > Stathis: > I am an idealist enough (and an agnostic) to confess to lots and lots of > so far undetected functions (maybe even components -- outside our > 'material' --concept) that contribute to the functioning of a human > 'brain'(?) as developed into by now. Scanning goes for known items, > composing is contemplated for known structures (that include known > functioning and functionals as well) so to "scan and reproduce" is but a > pius wish *within our knowledge-base *of today. Maybe ever. The readiness > for infinites is a humanly unknown domain. > I feel it as much more than a linear progressing from 200 (1000?) to 11 > billion or so which may be (if only by the huge numbers) above linearity. > AND... it includes the Aristotelian (what I called in a recent post my pun: > "Aris-Total") *mistake* of regarding the 'total' as the composition of > known *material* parts. > > Physicists may fall into these traps, mathemaiticians even more, but > people in 'thinking' areas should not. > > Apologies to the physicians and number-churners. > > JM >
John, You may be right and there may be brain structures and functions that defy scanning and reproducing. However, this is straightforward scientific question, amenable to experimental methods. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
