[ExI] Wernicke's aphasia and the CRA.

Gordon Swobe gts_2000 at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 12 15:03:36 UTC 2009


--- On Sat, 12/12/09, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:

> The replacement would have to involve artificial neurons
> that are *functionally equivalent*. 

I.e., functionalism.

> To properly model a brain you may need go down all the way to
> the molecular level, which would of course require...

Now here you and Searle may almost agree. To create an artificial brain modeled "down all the way to the molecular level", we would need essentially to create a real brain.

-gts





      



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