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My own view over the philosophy of mind is closest to the identity theory - "states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain
by kailuowang 12y ago
My own view over the philosophy of mind is closest to the identity theory - "states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain." [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/] I also think that mind is nothing but the states and processes, so another way to put it, mind is the ongoing states and processes of the brain.
Using computer systems as an analogy, the brain is the hardware, the mind is the software code and run-time states of this system. Some of the software code was written by genetics but the majority of them are written after birth by the environment. Now there are two major differences between computer system and a human:
a: computer systems are Turing machines, humans are not. Human uses intuition to perform induction which Turing machine can not (because induction is not logic). And induction is such an important foundation of human understanding of the world that I believe a Turing machine's understanding of the world based on pure logic would be very different.
b: human minds is aware of himself, he can think about his own mind, and think about the thinking about his own mind. It is like if the software can model the software itself, without entering an endless recursive loop. That is fundamental property of consciousness.
My guess is that the fact that human mind relies on intuition rather than logic (non Turing machine) is the reason he can recursively think about himself while computer can't, after all he intuitively knows when to stop and jump out of the recursive loop.