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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: mind vs. brain
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 14:49:14 EST
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In article <866@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:

[With reference to my objection to people refering to the brain's "software"]

>Specifically, I think you make a mistake in thinking that the changes to
>the  neural structure is outside the bounds of what a software description
>might specify.  The whole point of software is that when executed, it affects
>the hardware.  I don't think the nature of those effects is presupposed in
>the concept.

Fine.  Does this really mean that every time I see the word software used
with respect to the brain, that I can add "The brain's software is not
necessarily anything like computer software as we know it"?

Charley Wingate