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Article 5540 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs)
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Subject: Re: brains and information processing
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Date: 10 May 92 19:09:32 GMT
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In article <1992May9.172828.17624@psych.toronto.edu> 
christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>
>As you verge on pointing
>out yourself (and as Searle does about the stomach) the liver is as much
>an "information processor" as is the brain. It all depends on you construal
>of "information" and "process".
>
  Aristotle thought that the liver is an information processor.  I 
don't.

  I try to write in a way that communicates rather than confuses.
I often fail, but I try.

	-- Bill


