Re: cognitive != observable?

"Ray Gardener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Well, think of it like this.
> 
> If mind could be made to function macroscopically, then anything that
> implements a Turing machine would suffice. Say, a sufficiently large set of
> Tinkertoys arranged in the proper manner and given punch cards or whatever
> to act as the software.
> 

Yes, that's a consequence of accepting a computational view of mind.

> I fail to see where consciousness resides in such a construct. Anyone coming
> along would say "It's just a bunch of wooden sticks and paper moving about."
> and they'd be right. The clever behavior could always be reduced to sticks
> and wheels and paper. There's no Mind anywhere in such a thing.
> 

And what assumption lies beneath the one who says such?

Remember, when we open up your brain and analyze it under a microscope
exactly the same sort of scientific bafflement will come upon us. You
see green, but I open up your brain and I see no green, just some
nerve cells, etc.

Thanks,

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Eray Ozkural