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From: crane@fortune.UUCP (John Crane)
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Subject: Re: A Quick Question - Mind and Brain
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Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 16:27:47 EDT
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Up to this point the ongoing discussion has neglected to take two
things into account:

	(1) Subconscious memory - a person can be enabled (through
	hypnosis or by asking him the right way) to remember
	infinite details of any experience of this or prior life
	times. Does the mind selectively block out trivia in order
	focus on what's important currently?

	(2) Intuition - by this I mean huge leaps into discovery
	that have nothing to do with the application of logical
	association or sensual observation. This kind of stuff
	happens to all of us and cannot easily be explained by
	the physical/mechanical model of the human mind.

I agree that if you could build a computer big enough and fast
enough and taught it all the "right stuff", you could duplicate
the human brain, but not the human mind.

I don't intend to start a metaphysical discussion, but the above
needs to be pointed out once in a while.

John Crane