On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:57 AM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, August 25, 2019, Bruce Kellett <bhkellet...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:26 AM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Sunday, August 25, 2019, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >>> everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Yes and insurance is different from cash. So what? A bit is just a >>>> physical thing that you choose to regard purely in terms of its >>>> computational relations...we calll the "abstractions" for a reason. >>>> >>> >>> Under your own definition of abstraction above, there is a distinction >>> between a mind and a brain. >>> >> >> Just as there is a distinction between scissors and cutting a piece of >> paper. Mind is what a brain does, just as cutting paper is what scissors >> do. It is the difference between a noun and a verb. Not that one is an >> abstraction from the other. >> >> Bruce >> >> > But a mind doesn't require a brain to do what the brain does. > That is not exactly what I said. Mind is what a brain does -- and maybe other things can do what a brain does, although we do not have any examples of this as yet. I did not claim that a brain is what a mind does.... Bruce A Turing machine can replicate any finitely describable process, so if the > brain is finite it would be more accurate to say a mind is what a > particular program does. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLTOw3fpwP1gb0ApX3tS1i%2BoxjMZfs-_%3DHJ%2Beach-VaW9Q%40mail.gmail.com.
