RE: The Brain=Mind Fallacy
June 2, 2012 at 12:58 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2012 at 1:01 pm by fr0d0.)
(June 1, 2012 at 7:34 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Essentially, you become like a computer that can turn on but can't load and start its operating system.
(June 1, 2012 at 7:38 pm)Annik Wrote: Indeed. Any data in the hard drive would be wiped, the computer is useless.
The brain is what performs the mechanics enabling us to think. Thoughts =/= brain. The brain facilitates what we understand to be us > our personality. The brain =/= us.
Information > Information gathering device (senses) > information storage device (bio electric circuitry within the brain)
Thought: use of brain to cogitate information / physical process. Facilitating =/= thought
I completely agree that the processes that lead to thoughts are mechanical.
If a computer had a thought - would that thought be physical? No never. It's still something not physical in nature.
