John Mikes writes:
> Friends:
> Siding with Mark (almost?<G>)
> just to a 'wider' view of mentality than implied by
> physicalistic - physiologistic - even maybe
> comp-related frameworks, indicating the domains we did
> not even discovered, but love to disregard. Upon Marks
> post
> --- Stathis Papaioannou (wroteamong more):
> <stathispapaioannou.domain.name.hidden>
> >...
> Our bodies, including all neural tissue, are
> constantly falling apart and being rebuilt.
> Experiments with radiolabeled amino acids in mice,
> for example, suggest that the half life of protein in
> the brain is about 10 days. The turnover at synapses
> is even faster, a matter of minutes.
> So given months or years, you really are like a car in
> which every single component has been replaced, the
> only remaining property of the original car being the
> design....<
> Is it really?
> Are we a mchanistic isolated structure and an
> unchanging mechanism fabricates the replacements
> exactly according to the 'origina' blueprint?
> All that in a world that changes continually?
> Don't the 'fanricating' units also change (including
> the rules of fabrication? Don't the changed
> replacement
> parts influence the complexity of actions? Are we not
> subject to a changing world with responding to more
> than just 'inside' activity-patterns?
>
> That may be applicable to a computer-contraption of
> our present (first) embryonic primitivity and its
> restriction into a hardware designed exactly and
> exclusively for a type of software similarly designed
> for exclusive application, - in 'that' hardware using
> that ridiculously primitive binary system 'we' so
> ingeniously invented to simulate in a 'very first'
> elevation SOME of our mental functions (in the first
> place arithmetical ones).
>
> I am sure you do not deny a plasticity (I like
> elasticity better) of the mind - I would add: and
> body, i.e. ourselves, (everything in the world?)
> stemming for 'replacements' with adjustment to the
> changing ambiance - even unlimited environment (just
> consider as an example our 'plastic' recollections vs
> a rigid machine-memory) as in eye-witness reports.
>
> Do you have exactly the same mentality by rigidly
> replaced identical 'neuronal etc.' substitutes as was
> the little rascal who went to his first communion?
> Or even same-thinking as you did when joining this
> list?
>
> A negative to that: senescence is part of it, change
> is not only 'addition', it is by 'streamlining' also
> eliminating design-aspects all the way to destructing
> the 'original' design. In a world-dynamism. Complexly.
You're right of course: we are not like a car in which all the parts
have been repalced, but like a car in which the parts have been
replaced with approximately similar ones.
Stathis Papaioannou
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