[ExI] Is the brain a digital computer?

[Gordon Swobe]

> I believe that the only workable definition of the noun 'a
> thought' is, fundamentally, 'a statement', which is
> certainly information, certainly can be held in media other
> than brains, and certainly does not have mass.

By the noun thought I mean the intentional mental state of a conscious
mind. Hard drives and newspapers contain information but they do not have
mental states intentional or otherwise, at least not this side of science-
fiction.

On my materialist view, brain matter causes and contains thoughts. And brain matter has mass. So notwithstanding the possible involvement of massless particles, thoughts have mass.

-gts