Hand-drawn picture of Turing Machine

The brain may be a Turing Machine, but the mind must be something more.



I think Kurt Gödel would agree with you on this.

A human person is able to recognize truths that cannot possibly be logically derived by a Turing Machine. An example of this is Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. A human can also experience love, anger, understanding, self consciousness, and the like; but it is hard to imagine how a Turing Machine could experience these. So, if all the workings of the brain can be simulated by a Turing Machine, (for example, if we build a huge computer that would mimic in detail all the interactions of the neurons of some human's brain), then where do the thoughts reside that are beyond the reach of a Turing Machine?

Of course these thoughts must be somewhere in the human mind; and therefore, the mind must be something more that just the brain.

At least a portion of the human mind must somehow exist apart from the human body.

But where would that portion of the mind be? Would that be the soul? And where does the soul reside? Would that be in some eternal world, separate yet somehow associated with the world we know with its space and time?

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