<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Giulio Prisco <giulio@gmail.com> wrote:</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><font face="Arial" size="2">></font></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">> Brains are not like digital computers.</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div
class="y_msg_container" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">>> Brains are biological organs, not fundamentally different from livers or<br>>> kidneys.<br><br>> Livers and kidneys are computers: they are physical systems </div><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">> that evolve in time and interact with their environment according to </div><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">> well known physical laws and stored programs. </div><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">If livers and kidneys are computers then we might as well
say that just about everything is a computer. It's warm here tonight and so I have a fan operating in my home office.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> It's oscillating back and forth, as if according to a program. I suppose I could think of it as a computer.</span></div><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gordon</div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>