tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559910.post1423716839941351079..comments2024-02-17T19:58:47.311-05:00Comments on Textuality: If You Build It, He Will Come -- And You Better Not Disagree with MeLarry Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642725101009530480noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559910.post-48102779621209970592011-08-27T11:08:30.585-04:002011-08-27T11:08:30.585-04:00Great post.
I check out Ilion's blog occasion...Great post.<br /><br />I check out Ilion's blog occasionally because I find his comments entertaining.<br /><br />I'm a little confused about about exactly how the mind should be classified--physical or non-physical. I just recently began reading Steven Pinker's <i>How the Mind Works</i> in which he states the computational theory of mind claims the mind is physical, although it's unclear to me exactly how he reached that conclusion. I've always considered the brain physical (obviously) and the mind non-physical, an emergent phenomenon of the activity of neurons. Certainly the results of our minds' activity, things like mathematics, emotions, any kind of thought, are non-physical. Anyway, as I understand it, the computational theory of mind compares the brain to a computer, and that mental states (a particular configuration of neurons firing) are information, and this information can create possibly never before experienced more complex mental states. <br /><br />Unforturnately, our minds are just not aware of how they function. Kind of like our livers--you never know just how many toxins they've removed from our blood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com