Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!mcnc!unc!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.ai,net.philosophy,net.rumor,net.misc Subject: Re: A Quick Question - Mind and Brain Message-ID: <769@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 19:02:49 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.769 Posted: Tue Jun 19 19:02:49 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 01:19:22 EDT References: <186@isrnix.UUCP> <3588@fortune.UUCP>, <20@cbosgd.UUCP> <3615@fortune.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 20 > (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. Intuition is nothing more than one's subconscious employing logical thought faster than the conscious brain can understand or realize it. What's all the fuss about? And where's the difference between the "brain" and the "mind"? What can this "mind" do that the physical brain doesn't? A good dose of Hofstadterisms and Smullyanisms ("The Mind's 'I'" provides good examples) puts to rest some of those notions of mind and brain. -- "I take your opinions and multiply them by -1." Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr