(September 4, 2009 at 4:25 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The brain is the bus. It's never the passenger. The passenger is free to duplicate itself into other brains. Should there be a severe electrical storm it could kill a large number of passengers. If the brain is damaged then there may not be room for so many passengers as previously.
What you're talking about is ideas not thoughts (memes?), thoughts are entirely physical (completely reliant on thought-supporting infrastructure) ideas are abstract and can be carried on a variety of media (verbal, visual, books, TV etc.) but again they STILL cannot survive without infrastructure.
Kyu
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