Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: mind vs. brain Message-ID: <2005@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 00:20:25 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2005 Posted: Mon Oct 28 00:20:25 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 22:05:11 EST References: <1794@watdcsu.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 24 David Canzi suggests the following analogy: mind:brain::digestion:stomach and then goes on to say that no one talks about the digestion/stomach dichotomy. But I think another analogy fits at lest as well, if not better: brain:mind::hardware:software or brain:mind::hardware:process and people DO talk about the dichotomies implied by the latter pair. SO I see no reason to consider the implications of David's analogy until he gives some evidence that we should choose it over some other one. I might also add that a reason people don't worry about distiguishing stomach from digestion is that the construction of artificial stomachs is neither a pressing nor an interesting issue at this time. Charley Wingate