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>From: bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs)
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Subject: Re: Transducers
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Date: 12 Jun 92 05:38:19 GMT
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In-Reply-To: roitblat@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu's message of 12 Jun 92 02: 26:20 GMT


   rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) wrote:
   >  We are looking at two possibilities:
   >	1: The mind is a transducer
   >	2: The mind is a set of peripherals connected to a computation
   >	   core.

   roitblat@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Herbert Roitblat) writes:
   >If these hypotheses are mutually exclusive then they cannot both be
   >true simultaneously.  Either the mind has a central computational
   >core, or it does not. 

Two comments:

First, it is not at all clear to me that this is the contrast Stevan
Harnad intended to make with his claim that "I am a transducer".  I
understood it quite differently.

Second, unless I'm misunderstanding you (and I bet I am!), there is a
natural way to view the mind as a set of peripherals connected to a
computational core:  the core is the central nervous system, and the
peripherals are the rest of the body.

	-- Bill


