(July 18, 2009 at 7:14 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Show me. How can you measure a thought? Are you talking measuring the electrical activity? Translating the electrical activity into something else? This still isn't the thought itself, just the transport, facilitator or receiver. Without substantiation your point is outside reality and only in theory. It doesn't count.
Of course I am talking about measuring the electro-chemical impulses but then I never claimed we could measure every aspect ... my position all along has been that this is a technological limitation and that it is only a matter of time before we gain full visualisation of mental processes. Presumably when they can display someone's thought in full 3D colour (on whatever is the medium for such things then) you will STILL claim they haven't measured thought? What exactly to you use that grey mush inside your head for Frodo?
All you are doing is making a vacuous claim just like the metaphysical idea of separating mind from brain which is self-evident [expletive deleted]'s because whenever the physical brain is damaged there are accompanying mind changes (usually for the worse).
Kyu
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