Computation and Human Experience (RRE)

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Thu Jun 15 19:06:57 PDT 2000


Dace:
> >> That our tools reflect our consciousness does not mean they contain it.
> >> Even the brain does not contain consciousness (any more than space
> contains
> >> time.)

Gordon:
> >Well, then, where is it?
> >

Dace:
> Memory occupies time but not space. ...

So it defies the "laws" of physics. Well, that's pretty interesting.

So, all this time we could have tossed those messy animal brains, computer chips, tapes, papers, graven tablets, knotted strings, and other inconvenient, energy-consuming, space- obtruding objects?



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