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From: ssingh@watdcsu.waterloo.edu ( SINGH S    - INDEPENDENT STUDIES    )
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Simulation verus reality
Message-ID: <5790@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 89 21:11:00 GMT
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Reply-To: ssingh@watdcsu.waterloo.edu ( SINGH S    - INDEPENDENT STUDIES    )
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In article <827@htsa.uucp> fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten) writes:
>
>Our reality is not a "universal" reality, either.  The rules for our
>existence are the chemical and physical rules, which are being executed
>by the molecules.  The rules for the existence of molecules are being
>executed by the constituting atoms.  The rules for the existence of
>atoms are being executed by the constituting atoms.  Et cetera.  If we
>would execute the rules for the molecules on a computer,  we would not
>notice any difference except that nuclear fusion would not be possible.
>
>	Frans van Otten
>	Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam
>	Technische en Maritieme Faculteit
>	fransvo@htsa.uucp


Very thought provoking!!! Since processes in the brain are chemical
reactions, I am wondering what models are the best we have to capture
the rules of chemical-chemical interaction that allows information 
processing of an intelligent sort to take place. Can the properties
of the chemicals be abstracted into something as imaginary as 
cellular automata? How WOULD we analyse the brain in such a way to
be able to decipher the dance of chemicals that is the esscence of
being human?

ssingh@watdcsu.waterloo.edu