<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Heartland</b> <<a href="mailto:velvet977@hotmail.com">velvet977@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>No. I'm saying that the mind is a dynamic information processing. It's just physics<br>and logic.</blockquote><div><br>It isn't physics or logic. Its a semantic claim on your part. If you assert that the "mind" is a dynamic information processing system which ceases to exist when it ceases to be "dynamic" or "process information" that is fine. I would choose to assert that the "mind" is the information content.
<br></div><br></div>Straight from Wikipedia, "Mind refers to the collective aspects of human intellect and consciousness that originate in the brain and which are manifest in thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination."
<br><br>These are individual and distinct aspects of a "mind" and there are certainly physical accidents or drug induced conditions that can result in the loss of one or more of these aspects. When that happens most people do not believe that the person has died. I would assert that without the information content that most of these aspects, excepting perhaps perception and emotion, cannot be present. So losing the information content completely and utterly means losing the mind.
<br><br>You seem to be asserting that a continued processing of information is required for a mind. Since "mind" is such a loose term in the first place it seems difficult to refute that.<br><br>But from my perspective...
<br> If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck -- its a duck.<br>It doesn't matter whether or not its a duck that burst out of an egg and has lived its life for a few years or whether I work very hard, as Tom Hanks did in Cast Away, and at the end magically appears a "duck" (in Tom's case it was fire). Either path works for me.
<br><br>"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours."<br> -- Richard Bach, Illusions<br><br>Robert<br><br><br>