Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!mcnc!unc!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!fortune!crane From: crane@fortune.UUCP (John Crane) Newsgroups: net.ai,net.philosophy,net.rumor,net.misc,net.junk Subject: Re: A Quick Question - Mind and Brain Message-ID: <3615@fortune.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 16:27:47 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.3615 Posted: Mon Jun 18 16:27:47 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jun-84 00:48:22 EDT References: <186@isrnix.UUCP> <3588@fortune.UUCP>, <20@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 24 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