>There is a crucial difference between believing that a computer can simulate a brain and believing that a windmill can do so. Leibniz didn't say a mill can si

>There is a crucial difference between believing that a computer can simulate a brain and believing that a windmill can do so. Leibniz didn't say a mill can simulate the human mind. He's talking about any contraption that can the simulate the human mind (which is also capable of simulating many things given proper arithmetic and [infinite?] time) one of which would be, for the sake of illustration, the size of a windmill. You have to realize that dissection of the human body was still extremely taboo in the 17th century (not to mention technological impediments). You may also be missing the point.