Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!tony@nexus.yorku.ca From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Shallice/Neuropsychology: BBS Multiple Book review Message-ID: <15360@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Date: 21 Sep 90 01:10:13 GMT References: <1990Sep20.040336.20431@ingres.Ingres.COM> Sender: news@yunexus.YorkU.CA Reply-To: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis) Organization: York University Department of Computer Science Lines: 23 Responding to Stevan Harnad, Jon Krueger writes : | > [Review of] FROM NEUROPSYCHOLOGY TO MENTAL STRUCTURE [by] Tim Shallice | > ... | > ABSTRACT: Studies of the effects of brain lesions on human behavior are | > now cited more widely than ever. ... | Wrong. No one has studied the effect of brain lesions on human | behavior, and no one is about to. ... | You're also engaging in egregious sort-crossing. Brain events are not | mixable with mental ones. ... | ... Holmes can't ask Doyle for more interesting cases. ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yes he can. Holmes can review his philosophical position, decide that he has a creator and ask that creator to modify his world. From "below" (within the fictional world of Holmes) this appears to be religious or something similar. From "above" (the world of you, me and the mind and writing of Doyle) this appears as Doyle dialoging with himself. In either case, it is a quite valid thing to do. I am not being facetious here. Just pointing out that you are making some metaphysical assumptions in your strict partitioning of brain and mind events. ... tony@nexus.yorku.ca = Tony Wallis, York University, Toronto, Canada