[MURG] Cortex activty

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:39:18AM -0700, digfarenough wrote:
> 

Would you please wrap your lines? You're difficult to quote
otherwise.

> That would definitely be proof that a low level animal could be simulated. The thing about Nanosystems is that you can't really argue with it if the calculations work out right. But what are you going to write in a book on uploading that will convince dualist people that the brain causes the mind and there is nothing else? You can be a monist philosophically and intuitively, but until science firmly closes the book on the mind/brain question, then, indeed, it's still an open question. Of course, I'd say you can pretty safely assume monism and go from that, but that right there leaves you open to critics.
>

I think the only thing critics would buy is behaviour-validated
simulation of a simple animal simulated from first principles.
Sure, some hardcore critics would still claim a human is something
different, but even now we have people denying the existance of
atoms (there used to be quite a number of scientists who claimed
that in 1920s, or so). 
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