[ExI] Digital Consciousness

[Mike Dougherty]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ordon <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>We could perhaps build a digital model of a neuron or an entire brain, but I think it would be only a model. The model in this case is not identical to the thing modeled, because the thing modeled (the mind/brain) is not in my view like a digital computer.
>
> Well, a model of a piece of music (e.g. a digital recording) is not identical to the thing modeled either, but nobody cares.  The important thing, the music, is still there.

Replying to email threads in most-recent first order, (thanks to
gmail) I just made nearly this exact same point.  I see you beat me to
it by 20 hours...   but I know I arrived at the same example
independently - and that's a pretty cool resonance.  :)