From: Paul Turner (paulj.turner@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 22:28:08 BST
Scott
[Scott:]
The difference between the weather and the mind is that with mind there
is
memory, and hence self-awareness.
[Paul:]
As I said, it is a crude analogy to draw attention to the argument that
there is nothing "doing" the thinking other than a figure of speech. In
this conception, "self-awareness" is just more of the process.
[Scott:]
Your analogy reminds me of the
functionalist comparison of thinking, as something that brains do, with
digestion, as something that stomachs do. The all-important difference,
of
course, is that thinking can think about thinking, but digestion cannot
digest digestion.
[Paul:]
I said nothing about thinking being "something that brains do". As I
have said previously, one cannot understand intellectual patterns by
investigating biological patterns.
Paul
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