From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 16:19:28 GMT
Hi John:
Quoting Pinker you wrote:
> ". . . in 1880 only the rudiments of neural
> functioning were understood, and a reasonable person
> could have doubted that all experience arises from
> quivering nerve tails. But no longer. . . . The
> evidence is overwhelming that every aspect of our
> mental lives depends entirely on physiological events
> in the tissues of the brain."
> (Stephen Pinker - The Blank Slate - 2002 - BCA - pg
> 41)
Since you appear to be familiar with the literature of neuroscience have
you found an explanation of how memory works in light of the fact that
cells in the brain and nervous system change over time?
Also, although I understand you deny the dualism of matter and mind, I
wonder if you also deny the dualism of means and meanings? It seems
to me the two dualism are related.
Platt
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