Computation and Human Experience (RRE)

[Gordon Fitch]

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?