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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: Wrong!
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In article <1992May5.201703.17963@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>...
>Nothing like a little whole-hearted question-begging to get things off on the 
>right foot, eh? Brains are no more *essentially* information processing
>devices than weather systems are. If you define them as such from the outset,
>it is little wonder you end up with the conclusion you had assumed. 
>Nice try. :-)

 Wrong! Brains contain persistent structures, and persistent patterns of
 control which maintain specific communication paths with other parts of 
 the body.  The succession of configurations in brain-state-space is not
 determined merely by thermal gradients in the body!  The brain controls
 bodily processes by virtue of its persistent patterns of control, whereas
 the weather is controlled by thermal gradients etc. not by endogenous
 (to itself) patterns of control.


