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This statement:" I had thought that we'd progressed enough in our science to warrant that "mind" itself could at least be considered to be an ongoing software development based on the creation of neural pathways created from the interplay of one's life experiences combined with one's natural or hereditary qualities "Coupled with this statement:"a term referring to the overall organization of a physical entity's personality and memories as applied to the execution of interactions with others within the same space-time continuum"I understood you to be suggesting that the mind was no more and no less than the "mecnanics" of the brain.If I understand a computer, and a piece of software that it is running well enough, I can know what it will do in any given situation. If I can know what it will do and how it will behave, I know, in essence, what it is like to be that computer running that software. I will still have knowledge of everything outside of the software, but will know and understand what it is like to function within those parameters.
This statement:
" I had thought that we'd progressed enough in our science to warrant that "mind" itself could at least be considered to be an ongoing software development based on the creation of neural pathways created from the interplay of one's life experiences combined with one's natural or hereditary qualities "
Coupled with this statement:
"a term referring to the overall organization of a physical entity's personality and memories as applied to the execution of interactions with others within the same space-time continuum"
I understood you to be suggesting that the mind was no more and no less than the "mecnanics" of the brain.
If I understand a computer, and a piece of software that it is running well enough, I can know what it will do in any given situation. If I can know what it will do and how it will behave, I know, in essence, what it is like to be that computer running that software. I will still have knowledge of everything outside of the software, but will know and understand what it is like to function within those parameters.
