Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id CAA24002 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 11 May 2000 02:03:40 +0100 Subject: Re: Emergence - the concept, and evolution Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:01:24 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20000511010125.AAA5923@camailp.harvard.edu@[204.96.32.218]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
John Wilkins made this comment not too long ago --
>A better term is Kim's supervenience - any two identical physical
>systems (in all possible worlds) will have the same supervenient
>properties, but the same supervenient properties can be realised in
>different phsyical systems (identical brains have identical minds, but
>identical minds might also arise in computers, for example).
Whoa.... "identical brains have identical minds" - ?!
Interesting hypothesis.... Now, surely the situational reality of that is
twins, and so far, there is no research that would support that twins
have identical minds, although there are more similarities than
differences.
Identical brains somehow existing in the same places and at the same
times, maybe....
As to minds appearing in computers, emergent or otherwise, well, knock
yourself out....
- Wade
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