ONT Re: Any PORT In A Storm
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HP = Howard Pattee
JA = Jon Awbrey
LT = Lao Tzu
JA: Okay, you are certainly not the first person I ever met
who says that they know how the brain works -- I will
just get it off my chest right now and confess that
I do not have a clue. Whew! What a relief ...
Not that it isn't fun to speculate, though ...
HP: I think you could use a clue or two. I do not know much about how the brain
works, but there is a vast literature on neuronal activities during many types
of perception and thought including logical and moral decision-making [e.g.,
Greene, et al. "An fMRI investigation of emotional and moral judgment" Science,
293, 2105, 2001, 14 Sept]. Agreed, these are coarse MRI and PET type scans,
and a little knowledge is a danger, but as Lao Tsu says:
LT: Knowing ignorance is strength.
Ignoring knowledge is sickness.
Gee, Howard, I did not say that I had not read lotsa literature on the subject.
I did spend my spare time throughout the 80's getting a Master's in Psych, and
most of the jobs that I have actually gotten paid for in my so-called career
were doing comps, data, and stats work in health science research settings,
and if you want to call what's currently known a "clue" then I reckon that
I have picked up a few shreds of it along the way, but I guess that my
estimate of how well the models approach the complexity of everyday
phenomena, not to mention the as yet unknown basis of consciousness,
well, call me when an fMRI has explained Lao Tzu, and then we'll
both have a clue.
Jon Awbrey
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