<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">John Clark wrote;</div><br></div></span><div>I am not impressed. Chemicals like that move by diffusion, so they could only transfer information at about .01 Meters a second. Light moves at 300,000,000 Meters a second. <br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Chemicals do the job. What more do you want? Faster? More gigabytes? <br></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">A brain is a noun, a physical thing that you can touch, but you can no
more touch the intelligence or consciousness in a brain than you can
touch the "fast" in a racing car.</div> <br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I don't buy the comparison. I think of the brain as a verb. It's active. No activity, no self. Dead. And it depends on what you call 'touch'. We can't put our finger on neurons firing but we can take pictures of them, see where they go, correlate that with behaviors.<br></div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div></div></div>
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