RE: [split] t-shirt to soul topic
September 5, 2009 at 4:39 pm
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2009 at 6:34 pm by fr0d0.)
Yes I'd agree with that Adrian. Your point that 'the brain' is interpreting & giving meaning is too general. The thoughts still do not demonstrably exist physically. They are still dependent upon the interpreter (brain matter) and the HDD (the memory, being possibly similar).
IOW, like 0's & 1's on a HDD, they are meaningless without interpretation. the interpretation process isn't the thought either. It only works out what the thought is, through cognition.
The computer interprets 1's & 0's and presents it as formalized. This isn't thought.
Yeah, but because thoughts rely on the infrastructure does not mean that thoughts are the infrastructure. Interpretation [CPU] and memory [HDD, RAM] doesn't produce thought. Thought is independent of both of those.
IOW, like 0's & 1's on a HDD, they are meaningless without interpretation. the interpretation process isn't the thought either. It only works out what the thought is, through cognition.
The computer interprets 1's & 0's and presents it as formalized. This isn't thought.
(September 5, 2009 at 6:55 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: 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.
Yeah, but because thoughts rely on the infrastructure does not mean that thoughts are the infrastructure. Interpretation [CPU] and memory [HDD, RAM] doesn't produce thought. Thought is independent of both of those.
