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Ray Scanlon <rscanlon at wsg.net> wrote in message news:399dd001.0 at ns2.wsg.net...
> > Then you don't know many cognitive scientists, if you think most of
> > them are religionists.
> > I don't deny that there are some cognitive scientists who are
> > religionists and there are some who do study the soul, but the
> > collective majority of cognitive scientists aren't.
>> We think of things differently. I place philosophy with religion. I place
> cognitive science with religion.
I hate this. Philosophy is mearly the act of trying to establish truth (or a working copy) through the means of discussion and
thought. Any good scientist needs to be a philosopher. Science is slightly moe than just looking at something and writing it down,
just because religion has poisend thought in many otherwise sensible individuals doesn't mean everyone has to stop thinking.
> > If you want to use the two terms as synonymous, I'm not stopping you,
> > but merely to tell you that most scientists who study mind, don't
> > agree. Vive la difference (spelling?).
>> Scientists do not study the soul (mind), cognitive "scientists" do.
No doubt you could tell us in great detail how an individual neuron works, and how it passes a signal to adjoining neurons. You
could also explain how neurons are arranged in the brain and to some extent which do what. You couldn't explain walking though,
could you. The pattern and flow of signals throughout the brain is studied in order to model an abstract concept such as basic
cognetive function. The brain is esentially a chaotic system (yes I do undertand chaos, I mean non stable and non periodic) and a
chaotic system can often be accurately modelled by removing some of the detail. This is the role of cognetive science. To estalish
the mechanisms in the brain which cause or create thought and hopefully the creation of an AI as a result.
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"My freedom of speech is nothing,
Without the freedom of my mind." - Tribute to Nothing
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