Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA06387 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:34:01 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 20:33:25 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) From: TJ Olney <market@cc.wwu.edu> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Determinism -- the brain is not enough In-Reply-To: <3ACC6D2C.559AEFB9@bioinf.man.ac.uk> Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0104052027420.169-100000@C157775-A.frndl1.wa.home.com> X-X-Sender: market@[140.160.80.17] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Actually, I don't. I think it requires a larger neural structure with sense
organs. I don't think a brain in a bottle with no external interfaces could
manifest a mind. I remind you of some strange things like the surface of the
intestines having a neural density about the same as the cranium.
What this of course implies is that the complexity of the brain alone may be
insufficient. Mind requires the complexity of an outer world interacting
with the complexity of the body/sense organs and the brain.
> Chris Taylor (chris@bioinf.man.ac.uk)
>
> Actually this is worth asking: Is there anyone on this list who doesn't
> think that a brain composed of neurons, interacting through electrical,
> chemical and mechanical routes only, is enough to make a mind?
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