The Mind Is the Opposite of a Computer
Matthew Cobb, a materialist, only scratches the surface when he explains why your brain is not a computerMental activity always has meaning—every thought is about something. Computation, by contrast, always lacks meaning in itself. A word processing program doesn’t care about the opinion that you’re expressing when you use it. In fact, what makes computation so useful is that it doesn’t have its own meaning. Because the mind always has meaning and computation never does, the mind is the opposite of computation.
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