The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52350   Message #804309
Posted By: Pied Piper
16-Oct-02 - 08:47 AM
Thread Name: Neurobiology and music
Subject: RE: Neurobiology and music
Hi Amos.
What would you say is the relationship of a program to a computer?
Are programs spiritual entities that have existence without computers to run them?
What happens to them when the computer is switched of?
Suppose a catastrophe destroyed life on earth, would the programs pass over to the other side.
    I think not.
Whilst not implying that human intelligence is entirely produced by algorithmic processes or that the human "program" could be extracted from the Brain, I think the relationship of mind to body is essentially the same.
No Minds without Brains.
If Brains aren't necessary why did they evolve?
    All the best PP.