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

[Heartland]

Heartland wrote:
>My claim is that brain is 3-D and mind is 4-D.

Ok, I'll bite on this one.  How is a brain a 3-D object?

It exists through time, and changes over time.  It moves to different
spacial coordinates at different times.  You must specify all 4
coordinates to find it.  It is a path through 4-space.

-eric

I've addressed this in my previous post. I wrote: "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 considering Jeffrey Herrlich's obviously correct point that atoms that make up 
the brain necessarily require time component, the above should be replaced by this: 
"Information about hardware and software of the mind (brain structure and 
algorithms) is a static symbol for the activity of matter in space and time that is 
the mind. No amount of information can ever replace the actual activity itself. The 
only sufficient equivalent/representation for any activity is that activity 
itself." Same point, better description, I hope.

S.