(2024-01-29, 03:00 AM)nbtruthman Wrote: As has often been observed, there seem to be many analogies between the operation of the brain and human-made computers. These parallels are perhaps at least partially understandable using the interactional dualist receiver/transducer/transmitter model, where the conscious human spirit causally manifests in the physical by means of intricately interpenetrating and linking to the neurons of the various brain structures.
How would a spirit remember anything if the memories are in the brain? Are there two sets of memory in two different places?
A computer "memory" is really akin to an abacus or diary, neither of which are actually thought to hold any memories.
Or, to put it another way, nothing in the material world can be said to hold mental content because all physical things have projections of meaning onto them. It seems to me this holds whether the "stuff" is made from atoms, ether, or even some astral material supposedly making up Akashic Records.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell