At 02:16 PM 8/17/2002 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> Now, at *some* level thought occurs by diffusing neurotransmitters
> through the soup. If what's in our head *actually* works anything
> like a "neural network" (the modern technological concept) works, I'd
> say that "symbol" isn't a very relevent concept to it.
Great Ghu, have we stumbled past the classic mind/brain question
without even discussing it? Not that I *want* to discuss it, just
want to put a stake in the ground saying we've skipped it.
--
"Deconstruction is [when] a work is interpreted as a statement about itself,
using a literary version of the same cheap trick that Kurt Godel used to try
to frighten mathematicians back in the thirties." -- Chip Morningstar
in <http://www.dourish.com/goodies/decon.html>