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Re:Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997) by metaphorm on Friday September 02, 2016 @07:45PM (#12417005)
mind != brain
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Re:Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997) by Retric on Friday September 02, 2016 @08:27PM (#12417120)
Brain state = mind. Running program = computer state.

Both are physical things. An abacus does not undergo long term change when you move the beads. But, the arangment of beads can have meaning. Brains and CPU both treat the intermediate state as something meaningful and act on it.

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