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by _448 1095 days ago
Isn't mind and a brain two different things? I thought computers and neural-nets were modelled on a brain and not on mind.
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> Isn't mind and a brain two different things?

As far as I know you can only get one of them under a microscope, which seems to support your view, but "mind-brain identity theory", positing that mind and brain are literally the same thing, is still a thing in philosophy though not quite the hot item it was 60 years ago.

If you're curious, see for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_physicalism or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous_monism