On 9 Aug 2005 14:02:59 -0700, "The Daily Excerpt" <bzbz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>N. K. Brendleton: "According to reductive materialism, a particular
>mental state will correspond to a specific physical state in brains. It
>therefore allows the future possibility of cyborgs -- people with
>extensive electronic replacement parts -- becoming zombies: beings who
>may act as if they are conscious, but are really not. Functionalism, or
>non-reductive materialism, rejects this possiblity because the
>replacement parts will perform the same purpose as the original neural
>****tions of the brain. Functionalism recogizes Multiple Realizability,
>that the mechanistic material being utilized is irrelevent and any
>physical system (like a computer) that runs the same program as the
>brain will produce its various characteristics, including the notorious
>qualia."
>
>- - - - - - - - - - - - -
What do you mean 'future'?
We are all automatons with
self(personification and 'mind')
and qualia(sensor mapping)
stories dancing in our brains.
As I have said many times :
"We need our stories."
--
Best,
Frederick Martin McNeill
Poway, California, United States of America
mmcneill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
of the week :
"Your neocortex is reading this book."
-"On Intelligence"-Jeff Hawkins (1957-)
:-))))Snort!)
*************************
|
