[ExI] Is the brain a digital computer?

[Aware]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 March 2010 22:10, Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> We can quite easily reduce mental phenomena epistemically without reducing the same phenomena ontologically. I mean here that we can understand mental phenomena in scientific terms of neurological causes and effects without abandoning the common sense notion that mental phenomena have an irreducibly subjective ontology.

> You have obviously faith-based reasons to believe otherwise, but we
> should realise once and forever that there are no conceivable ways to
> demonstrate that you are wrong, since this has to do with personal,
> factual-invariant interpretations and views of the world.

At this point, the issue becomes not that such a belief is held (and
defended), but why?  Given Occam's Razor, or its very successful,
generally applicable, pragmatic cousin, Max Entropy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_maximum_entropy

- Jef