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Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:20 pm

Originally posted by Tybaltus
@Sleep Do you despise me for giving you these difficult words? If you want me to stop, I will. But I have enjoyed watching you try to guess the words.

I must admit they are a little harder to formulate anything from since it is a word rather than a subject...i will just have to start using google or something for the current one

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:24 pm

But, hey, youre expanding your vocabulary, right?

Now you could use the words onychophagia and lethologica in everyday conversations!

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:28 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans
@Sleep: The mind-brain problem is the classic question of how the mind is related to the human brain. Is the mind simply the same as the brain? Or is the mind (with sense of self, self-awareness, intellect, moral and all) a product of the brain? Is the sum bigger than the parts, so to speak? Or can the mind be entirely reduced to physiological processes without loss of meaning? Or is the mind something more than the brain? Perhaps something partly or wholly outside and independant of the brain? If so, what? That's a little outline of this classical philosophical question, and while you are at it, explain consciousness and self awareness since it is related to this issue anyway.

Awww...CE, you take all the fun out of this game

. I think a brisk 'So, Sleepy: Reductionism or Holism?' was all he needed...

(and yes Reductionism and Holism are the only two long words I know...

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Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:31 pm

Originally posted by Tybaltus
But, hey, youre expanding your vocabulary, right?

Now you could use the words onychophagia and lethologica in everyday conversations!

Erm well i am expanding my vocab at the expense of my hair follicles

That would be the case with a normal person, a normal person would assimilate this knowledge and use it to the best of their advantage, me i go all blond, forget every word, what it refers to and why i am standing in a puddle jumping up and down, and who says there isn't anything wrong with not being normal

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:52 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans
@Sleep: The mind-brain problem is the classic question of how the mind is related to the human brain. Is the mind simply the same as the brain? Or is the mind (with sense of self, self-awareness, intellect, moral and all) a product of the brain? Is the sum bigger than the parts, so to speak? Or can the mind be entirely reduced to physiological processes without loss of meaning? Or is the mind something more than the brain? Perhaps something partly or wholly outside and independant of the brain? If so, what? That's a little outline of this classical philosophical question, and while you are at it, explain consciousness and self awareness since it is related to this issue anyway.

Ooookkkaaayyy, erm, i am going to space out several words in an effort to make this seem longer than it is...

I.........................have...................no..................idea

Mind-brain problem, i think there is an over mystification of the brain and it's functions, there are many millions of nerve's that react to stimuli, a great deal of the body is based on a chemical release system, so why is that not also linked to conciousness.

For instance when someone is depressed it can quite often be due to a part of the endochrine system being faulty, yet it effects the mood of the individual, if his mood and mind are altered by this then surely they are chemically derived.

Does that answer your question, or do you want more?

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 4:07 pm

Ooookkkaaayyy, erm, i am going to space out several words in an effort to make this seem longer than it is...

I.........................have...................no..................idea

ROFL

Excellent! You did a nice job to recover at the end of your post, though. If you think I have any clue at all on whether you were successful, then you are dead wrong.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 4:11 pm

Originally posted by Tybaltus
ROFL Excellent! You did a nice job to recover at the end of your post, though. If you think I have any clue at all on whether you were successful, then you are dead wrong.

All you have to do is use the word endochrine and you are sorted ;-)

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 3:59 am

*whispers to Sleepy* say something about neural transmitors...she'll love that

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 4:15 am

Originally posted by frogus
*whispers to Sleepy* say something about neural transmitors...she'll love that

I forgot to add nerve endings as well

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 4:11 pm

*steps in front of Sleepy, facing CE*

*clears throat*

Due to the materialistic nature of neurons firing in the human brain, it is perfunctory to declare the impossibility of a holistic solution to the mind-brain problem. However, due to their dual-function as logic gates in both the abstract and physical worlds, one can deduce the plausibility of a theory suggesting the existence of a non-reducible element of the brain, i.e the mind. It seems logical to see these logic gates not only as meaningless decision makers in the real world, but also as gates whereby binary information is...ermm...

*looks behind for nods of encouragement from sleepy*

...er..parambulated into the metaphysical world of pattern-interpretation and meaningfulness. Furthermore, this theory corroborates the self-evident impossibility of reverse-engineering in brain levels which provides the most conclusive rejection of the isomorphic relationship between brains and operating systems.
In conclusion, I find the neo-formalist solution to the brain-mind problem to be archaic whilst the rationalist conclusion fails to...umm...ring any bells. Goodnight.

EDIT - Upon a review of the situation, I have found nerve-endings to be crucial. As are neural transmiters.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 4:36 pm

LMAO @frogus, blagg's are always slightly more obvious when you fill the void of your actual answer with big words that no one understands

Plus the person you are blagging doesn't understand you so just ignores whatever it is you say...

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 4:38 pm

Oh, I see Sleep, so so that's where campaign speeches come from

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 4:47 pm

Originally posted by Bloodstalker
Oh, I see Sleep, so so that's where campaign speeches come from

LOL

Absolutely:

The Fiscal year was greatly improved when the bimorphemic trangressions were concluded. Eventually every graduated financial exegesis concludes with one candidate curtailing the imposing fellicitations of another in favour of a more hard line obsequiousness.

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 12:29 am

I think this thread needs some *bump*-age

How did the Aryans build such magnificent architecture in the the hardest places in India at such an early age? And who were the women carved so magnificently in a few magnificent structures?

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 12:12 pm

Originally posted by Tybaltus
I think this thread needs some *bump*-age

How did the Aryans build such magnificent architecture in the the hardest places in India at such an early age? And who were the women carved so magnificently in a few magnificent structures?

Hmm well the question is very open ended, I would suspect that they had innate mathematicians or at least a small knowledge of geometry. What appears to be hard to us would have just been a challenge, more than likely they were trying to prove to women how great they were. Ergo the women in those structures are in fact the people they were trying to impress.

It makes sense really, what better way to woo your future lady than building a long standing structure that showed her beauty perfectly. Of course once she was withered and old she would probably be disgusted by being constantly reminded of her age and eventually would probably get in many arguments with her husband about why he no longer makes structures of her any more and only of the beautiful "new" women from town.

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 12:19 pm

ROFL! HA! I love this thread. How could we have let it slipped into the basement of SYM? Heh.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 1:03 pm

Originally posted by Tybaltus
ROFL! HA! I love this thread. How could we have let it slipped into the basement of SYM? Heh.

Well I don't always have time to research the questions as throughly as I obviously did in this situation, my work has been stupidly hectic of late, things have calmed down a bit now so I will see what I can do. No ridiculously silly questions though, I have to have something to work with...I mean something easy to research properly.