Elysiumfire,
You rightly point out that the orthodox view of the brain amounts to brain as computer. Even if the 'computer' has as input a few real numbers corresponding to the concentrations of various hormones!
I have tried to pursue this concept in another thread because I feel that this clarifies materialist claims (and in my view errors). Either a materialist accepts the equivalence of brain and computer - in which case the consequences are crisp to define and interesting, or they are left floundering about trying to define why a computer is not equivalent to a brain.
Added to all this, is the dismal results of years of AI research.
David |