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Would a digital brain have a mind?

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posted on 2023-05-25, 22:04 authored by Holmes, WN
This essay examines arguments that a digital computer could be programmed to be conscious, asserts that the idea is preposterous as the human brain is not only far more complex than any prospective digital computer but different in kind, and brings out the fundamental distinction that the mind is a process carried out by the brain.

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Publication title

Computer

Volume

35

Article number

5

Number

5

Pagination

112, 110-111

ISSN

0018-9162

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  • Published

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