huntley@nprdc.arpa (David Huntley) (11/19/88)
I once heard of an 8-year old child who was asked to describe the difference between "mind" and "brain". She said that you can't see or touch the mind, but you can weigh the brain. Doesn't it seem plausible that the brain is the "machine" of human consciousness? We can work forever on improved inorganic brains. But how will we ever engage their minds? David Huntley, 3lbs8oz |:^D (no jokes about microencephalism) huntley@nprdc.arpa ucsd!nprdc!huntley
ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew C. Plotkin) (11/19/88)
/ Doesn't it seem plausible that the brain is the "machine" of human / consciousness? We can work forever on improved inorganic brains. / But how will we ever engage their minds? If the brain is only a machine, then the mind engages automatically when complexity reaches a certain level. If not, we just have to write software as good as ours. --Z