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Hi Ayten,
I think I didn't convey enough of my own delight at the general
conclusion of the Cornell research team-- I am in full agreement with you on
your assessment of what it means.
My gentle exasperation is due to the fact that I have been hearing
their conclusion all my life. By the way, as I was mulling this study over in my
mind, I thought... isn't it interesting that it was interaction between human
mind and computer that gave them their proof? I like that, a lot! There's a
certain symmetry in it, somehow.
I also agree that this kind of finding (and especially the fact
that it is being published and reported) is a huge step in the right
direction. But my point was that such a finding will, hopefully lead
them to conclude; "OK; if the mind is more like an organism than like a
computer, we need to study organisms to understand the principles behind it...
but our findings mean we can't study organisms the way we study
computational issues... so...."
I'm hoping they will realize that this reasoning leads them into
the wilderness beyond current physics and that the work in Life, Itself is
a detailed map of the terrain.
Judith
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