[extropy-chat] "Dead Time" of the Brain.

[Heartland]

>> >  Heartland Wrote:
>> >
>> >  "So, a brain is a 3-D object. Mind is a 4-D
>> > object."
>> >
>> >  I think you are mistaken here. A brain is
>> > definitely a 4-D object. It does objectively
>> > survive the passage of time, does it not?
>
>> Anything from 1-D to 3-D also exists/survives in
>> 4-D. My point is that the fundamental nature of
>> brain structure is 3-D while mind nature is 4-D.
>> What I mean is that a projection of the brain from
>> 4-D to 3-D retains the same functionality of the
>> brain but it isn't possible to go lower than 3-D
>> and still end up with a functional brain.
>
>
> But "a functional brain" occurs in time, and a static
> brain frozen in time performs no functions.

What the brain *does* through matter in space and time is a 4-D object. There is a 
clear distinction between hardware, software, and an activity which both hardware 
and software determine. Brain is not the mind.

S.