[ExI] Is the brain a digital computer?

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Christopher Luebcke <cluebcke at yahoo.com> wrote:

> ...If you pass a high-powered magnet over the hard drive of
> my computer, the mass of the hard drive will not change, but the 
> information will be destroyed... Christopher

I do not consider information on a hard drive as constitutive of thought, for the same reason that I do not believe newspapers think about the words 
printed on them.

-gts