Metaphysical Choons!

For once here are some tunes that are philosophical rather than dutty and tropical...
http://people.umass.edu/phil511/monads/

Plumbers and Brains

The idea that a greater understanding of computers can give us clues as to how the human brain works is akin to the claim that a better understanding of sewers and plumbing could give us clues as to how the heart and circulatory system works. The human brain is a remarkable, chaotic and complex mechanism and each one is unique. If it is in any sense a computer it is nothing like anything we would normally think of as a computer. To sum up Fodor should stick to plumbing if its the only game in his town.