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Subject: Re: Simulated Brain
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>From: system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 92 07:38:58 NZST
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lamorte@netcom.com (R. Scott LaMorte) writes:

> system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
> 
> >While I can accept that to a degree, I hope you are not suggesting that 
> >the brain or thought or consciousness or whatever can't communicate to 
> >the body. I can THINK about a roller-coaster ride, and my pulse will go 
> >up, body will tense, etc etc.
> 
> 
> AYes, but not as much as it woulf if you were *really* on the ride.
> Thinking the event is not the same as experiencing the event.

Yes, but it surely thats because the BRAIN isn't as convinced that its 
on the ride, as opposed to the body. I don't think your response has 
any comment on my point, which is that it really is the brain 
controlling the body, and the body with all its hormones, etc, really 
has a very limited repertoire of brainless (or below conscious brain) 
response.

I've never tried it, but I imagine that if you slugged me unconscious, 
strapped me in a roller coaster, and turned it on, my body would 
exhibit little or none of the changes it would while I was conscious.

> 
> >Since I can get excited by watching a TV program without sound, ie 
> >video input only, and since I don't think my eyes (and every other 
> >sense) are wired to every part of my body, I think my brain must act as 
> >a processing agent, and then alerts the body to what is happening.
> 
> Well, I've read some theories that state that to some degree many of
> our behaviors are hard-wired responses. If I toss something in your
> face, you blink. While your eyes certainly aren't plugged directly to
> your eyelids, certainly the process skip conscious awareness.

Hmmmm, does anyone know if I would blink if I was knocked out, and had 
something thrown at my eyes (which are open, but very glazed by now)??

> 
> -R. Scott LaMorte
> 


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