<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;">Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai@yahoo.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;">As I keep saying (and you keep ignoring), something doesn't have to be digital for a </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">digital computer to compute
it. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I'm not ignoring you, Ben. I just think that the answer is yes, it is trivially true that <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">there is some description of the brain such that we could do a digital simulation of it</span>. Church's thesis applies to brains; their operations are in principle computable. We can also create digital simulations of rain storms. This too is trivial. Nobody actually gets wet from those digital rain
drops.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Gordon</div> </div></body></html>