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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by hasenj on Thursday May 19, 2011 @12:56AM (#2562933)
> That is unless you are not a materialist, i.e., you believe that the mind is the product of some non-physical plane that somehow interacts with the physical world through the brain...

It has a name: dualism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_%28philosophy_of_mind%2...

Why are you implying that it's stupid?

EDIT:

Also note, you don't have to be a dualist to think that consciousness is not a property of a brain model. You could be a materialist and think that consciousness can be given to a machine, but still think it's separate from the turing-machine model of computation. That is, hold the view that consciousness is not a property that can emerge from a computation process; but rather some other different kind of process that's not yet known.

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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by ciphergoth on Thursday May 19, 2011 @10:38AM (#2564027)
You seem to be implying that if a philosophical position has a name, it is not stupid. I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you but that's far from being so.
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