[ExI] Meaningless Symbols.

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 13:28:09 UTC 2010


2010/1/15 Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com>:
> --- On Wed, 1/13/10, The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Yet your brain takes it stride and understands...
>> *This* is what I think is fascinating....
>> ...But there are things that the universe does for
>> which there are not yet words, symbols, or concepts.
>
> Right, Stuart!
>
> The human brain does things that software/hardware systems cannot and will never do. Its method remains a mystery for now, and that mystery makes some of us uncomfortable, but our discomfort does not change the facts.

You've previously implied that S/H systems *can* do everything the
brain can, short of consciousness. Otherwise, zombies would be
impossible.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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