In The Creative
Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind, Eric Harth raises one of the many difficulties
that beset the materialist hope of determining exact brain states:
We would want to know in every millisecond (the time it takes a neuron to
fire) which of the 100 billion or so neurons are active and which are not. If
we denote activity by a “1” and inactivity by a “0,” this would require a
string of 100 billion zeros and ones every millisecond, or 100 trillion every
second. To give a running account of the true neural state, I would have to
produce in every second something like 110 million books, each containing
a million symbols. This awesome record is to be compared with my
mental states as they occur.74
Wednesday 25 July 2018
In The Creative Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind, Eric Harth raises one of the many difficulties that beset the materialist hope of determining exact brain states: We would want to know in every millisecond (the time it takes a neuron to fire) which of the 100 billion or so neurons are active and which are not. If we denote activity by a “1” and inactivity by a “0,” this would require a string of 100 billion zeros and ones every millisecond, or 100 trillion every second. To give a running account of the true neural state, I would have to produce in every second something like 110 million books, each containing a million symbols. This awesome record is to be compared with my mental states as they occur.74
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