Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id EAA18240 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 23 Jan 2002 04:44:37 GMT Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 20:40:12 -0800 Message-Id: <200201230440.g0N4eCA24188@mail15.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [65.80.160.121] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: A Confusing Example Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Dace" <edace@earthlink.net> <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Re: A Confusing ExampleDate: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:33:49 -0800
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>From: Francesca S. Alcorn
>
>> >That different regions of the brain are associated with different
>> >aspects of mental functioning doesn't mean the brain is somehow
>> >generating or directing or storing any of this mental existence. The
>> >brain knows nothing of what it facilitates.
>>
>>
>> The model which I read (a few years ago now, so maybe it has changed)
>> suggests that learning results in increased sensitivity at the
>> synapses, and increased connections among neurons. Thus learning
>> and experience *directly* change the structure of the brain.
>
>Sure. But that doesn't mean the brain itself learns or has experiences.
>When I learned how to tie my shoes, no doubt this had an effect on my brain.
>But that doesn't mean my brain learned how to tie shoes. The only thing
>that happened in my brain is that a few neurons forged some new connections.
>That the brain facilitates mental activity cannot, by itself, constitute
>proof that it contains or is in some way identical to mental activity.
>Given the abstract and representational nature of mentality, it seems absurd
>that mind could be reduced to any physical object, including the brain.
>(Since when did an atom "represent" another atom?) That memes are in the
>mind doesn't mean they're in the brain. The brain's activities facilitate
>memes as much as any other aspect of human consciousness.
>
The dynamically recursive mind that emerges from the complex material substrate brain experiences and acts.
>
>Ted
>
>
>
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