X-Message-Number: 3949
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 08:10:46 -0800
From: John K Clark <>
Subject: SCI.CRYONICS Uploading

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In #3909  Wrote:

	     > a computer does NOTHING of importance but manipulate symbols
     
I agree, but that's all a brain does too, however the brain's
symbols are much more complex than the ones current computers
use. The most complex, recursive, symbol of all is the self
symbol. It must keep track of what other symbols in the mind are
active and what they are doing , to do this it must have symbols
for symbols. Symbols can activate other symbols, consciousness
must be the triggering pattern the self symbol induces in other
symbols. The only alternative is mumbo jumbo like the soul, I
prefer my own brand of mumbo jumbo.

				
				John K Clark           

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