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>From: barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort)
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Subject: Re: MIND, BRAIN, CONCIOUSNESS
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Date: 1 Nov 91 02:18:01 GMT
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In article <1991Oct29.214816.23349@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu>
las@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu writes:

   Having been trained as a mathematician I feel very inclined
   to ask for a defenition of what is meant by the following terms:

   a) mind
   b) brain
   c) conciousness.

By analogy:

Brain : Mind :: Hardware : Software

Consciousness : Mind :: Model-Based Reasoning : Data Processing

When computers evolve to the point where they are competent at
Model-Based Reasoning, and repose not only models of the external
world, but also self-models, then we will begin to see synthetic
consciousness as envisioned, say, by Arthur C. Clarke's HAL 9000.

Barry Kort


