From: Jules Arntz-Gray (jarntzgr@uoguelph.ca)
Date: Mon Jun 16 1997 - 11:00:51 MDT
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Brent Allsop wrote:
>
> YakWax@aol.com commented:
>
> > We may well be able to simulate the 'functions' of a brain, but
> > would this be a brain?
>
> No. Abstract representation, though behaviorally similar is
> nothing like the phenomenal representations and feelings we use to
> represent information.
You should look into the Turing test. Exactly how do you confirm
your spirtual perception of colour as such and how do you know that a
simulation wouldn't as well? Do you believe in the ghost in the machine
idea or are you neuroncentric?
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