[ExI] Wernicke's aphasia and the CRA.

[The Avantguardian]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>
> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Sat, December 12, 2009 6:46:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Wernicke's aphasia and the CRA.

> I've never accepted simplistic notions of mind uploading that hold
> that all the information needed is a map of the neural connections. To
> properly model a brain you may need go down all the way to the
> molecular level, which would of course require extremely fine scanning
> techniques and a fantastic amount of computing power. Nevertheless,
> unless there is something fundamentally non-computable in the brain, a
> computer model should be possible, and this is sufficient to make the
> case for functionalism.

Even within the narrow bounds of math and computer science there are provenly non-computable numbers like Chaitin's constant and non-computable functions like the "busy beaver function". The brain is not obligated to be computable. And mind has yet to be satisfactorily defined.

Stuart LaForge 


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