Is our brain just the circuit board?

[organic born]

Originally Posted by Tobi

LOL!! And if your computer and operating system is anything like mine, your significant other would be calling out for an 'update' every day (or if he/she really went nuts -would be calling out for one every time you took a nap and woke up!)

This is the conception (I wonder) of a new sit-com!

I bet a sit-com that involved an upgrade with every nap would eventually become so convoluted that it'd be impossible to follow. :)

As to a partner who happened to be a manufactured computer, I'm not sure such upgrades would be viable for sometime. It seems that our processing abilities as humans is so intense that to try in replicate that in one computer alone would require all the power of one decent sized hydro electric dam! Talk about Needy and High Maintenance! It looks like our current organic version as humans will still be the front-runner for some time to come! :)

Originally Posted by Marie

Yes the brain is just a computer. It believes what we put in it. Science can't for many reasons accept, that it is the MIND, which is the soul, or, consciousness, that CONTROLS the brain. Also, a non understanding of mind, soul, and consciousness. They work with the brain differently. Now this is why they never cross the border but are stuck believing brain is the end.

I would be inclined to point out that you are actually referring to materialism and not science specifically. I am at present a scientist but as a philosophical idealist I see the brain as an emergent property of the mind - not the other way around.

I agree that materialism has incurred upon science way too often. Some people will call something scientific when, in fact, it has no scientific value - it is merely materialism.

Empirical data related to studies of the brain may indicate that there is a relationship between thought and the brain. It is the materialist that then jumps to the conclusion that this is evidence that the "brain creates the mind" or that "the mind is an emergent property of the brain"!! To me those perspectives have no scientific value whatsoever - they are merely serving to provide an answer to people (I apologise in advance for any offence to certain people) who do not think that deeply at all!

Is this materialistic viewpoint actually causing problems? If I simply mention the billion dollar pharmaceutical industry and then depression - then we may be on to something. I think you will find many sufferers of depression which will have plenty to say about anti-depressants - and they are not all favourable. I see depression as a spiritual affliction. Others see things differently.