Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA08318 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:15:44 GMT User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 08:11:09 -0500 Subject: Re: Definition please From: William Benzon <bbenzon@mindspring.com> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Message-ID: <B835A4AB.D204%bbenzon@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <003101c17ec4$2165e420$f187b2d1@teddace> Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
on 12/6/01 9:08 PM, Dace at edace@earthlink.net wrote:
>>> Since the brain and the mind are the same thing, I would have to say
>>> that their occupation of the same space is necessity not accident.
>>
>> They're the same thing viewed from different perspectives. Mind is
>> brain from the point of view of time, while brain is mind from the point
>> of view of space. It's possible to distinguish heads from tails while
>> recognizing that ultimately there's only one thing-- the coin.
>>
>
> William Benzon wrote:
>
>>>>
>> From *Beethoven's Anvil* (pp. 71-72):
>
> I want to approach to this problem in the manner of Gilbert Rylešs
> The Concept of Mind. Rather than wonder how the mysterious and
> ineffable mind can connect with the mysterious but concrete brain,
> I propose a definition:
>
> Mind: The dynamics of the entire brain, perhaps even the entire
> nervous system, including the peripheral nervous system,
> constitutes the mind.
>>>>
>
> If that's so, then why shouldn't it be true of every known organic system?
> Do the dynamics of an entire eco-system constitute a mind? Do the dynamics
> of an entire cell constitute the mind of the cell?
Why would you want to say such things? My definition spoke to nervous
systems, not systems in general. I don't see why anyone would want to leap
to such a conclusion.
BB
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