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To: arun gera who wrote (88881)	4/8/2012 11:38:07 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217713

Yes to the second sentence, no to the first: < The wet chemistry in your head and the senses which connect to reality are just temporary structures created by the code in your genes. Is information the hard reality behind the wet chemistry that is behind consciousness? > The first one is wrong. While the code in the genes provides the foundations for the brain's design, the wiring, memories and form of that wiring is determined by what impinges on it. Some of the structure is not temporary. But the whole point about personality is that the main form of it after development remains more or less constant. That's why it's so hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Learning a new language is best done while the brain is under construction. Here's a link thanks to my main brain component, Google, which explains much of it. science.howstuffworks.com Imagine how tough life was back in the day before there were even books. Books were a start but pathetically hopeless. With only 100 billion neurons per brain, Cyberspace is getting up towards that kind of processing power. With sensors everywhere and permanent memory, it won't be long before Cyberspace brain function far exceeds the combined power of humans, let alone individuals. When nature set out on the effort to develop sentience, consciousness and observational power a billion years ago, you can be sure that the end-state planned was not the simian-style humans achieved so far. We are certainly better than rocks, ants, rats and elephants, but not a lot. The egocentric human primate inventing superstitions is just a dumb stepping stone on a teleological trajectory. Wet chemistry is so last-century. Cyberspace and silicon synapses are now the name of the game. Mqurice