Re: Where the I is

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 05:52:52 MST

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    Max R. said:
    <<If there is no soul, as I am convinced. And if uploading is possible, as
    I am convinced, then the I/mind is just the calculations taking place
    inside the brain. It is not the brain itself.
    Well this has been obvious for me for a long time. But what freaked me
    out a bit, is that it is not the flesh that has conscience but the
    'calculations' that is done in the flesh. And the flesh is only the
    interface that allows us to experience the world.
    And it is pretty hard to imagine mathematics that is self aware, but
    that must be the consequence.>>

    Yes, Max. The number, 33982.11 has told me in dreams that it is really angry
    at you. But number 760143 thinks that your preference for Trance music is
    really bitchin' .

    Without a nice, squishy, brain to become aware of numbers, numbers, in a
    sense, don't exist. Mathematics doesn't exist for a hunting leopard, or for a
    paramecium, does it?

    Mitch



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