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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Wrong!
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992May6.201049.27027@uwm.edu>
Message-ID: <1992May7.163745.16284@psych.toronto.edu>
Keywords: brains, the weather
Date: Thu, 7 May 1992 16:37:45 GMT

In article <1992May6.201049.27027@uwm.edu> litow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bruce E Litow) writes:
>In article <10g95oINNkqk@exodus.eng.sun.com> Eric Silber 
>(silber@orfeo.eng.sun.com) writes:
>
>> In article <1992May5.201703.17963@psych.toronto.edu> 
>> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>
>>> ...
>>> 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. 
>>> ...
>
> > Wrong! Brains contain persistent structures, and persistent patterns of
[blah blah blah deleted]
>
>Wrong! (I like this.)

Me too! Here, Here! It seems that *everything* is essentially an information
processing system. What could I have been thinking...


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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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