[ExI] Is the brain a digital computer?

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Wed, 2/24/10, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>  wrote:

> That's not an argument, it's just rhetorical posturing.

I call it an appeal to intuition. I think most people find it intuitively implausible that we would create a new conscious entity if we trained a large group of pigeons to type in a Turing equivalent pattern. 

But that's what the computationalist theory of mind implies.

-gts