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Read the thoughts in the brain?

1. It is a great book, The Man neural and J.-P. Changeux, I read it when it was published in 1983, and since I read it twice. Particular concept graph, which allows us to understand how what we learn, a language for example, is part of the neural network and becomes a party. This concept, in my opinion, will happily against hope that he expressed in the interview to Ana Gerschenfeld, it will be possible one day to read the mind 'in a brain ( Público of 13/07). And I say fortunately, thinking that a political police, the PIDE or that of Guantamano could do with that opportunity.

2. A first difficulty: if it does not know Swedish or Russian, we can not 'read the mind' in that language. As the thought (which consists only of 'motor intentions', his example) is that speech, with its linguistic rules, it is difficult to understand how a neurological gist read the graphs in neurons. Not even dreams, which are visual, cinematographic, M. Jouvet has managed to capture so neurological, who has devoted his scientific life to this research (conclusion déchantée his sleep and dream , 1992). Does Changeux neurologist believes he can discover the linguistic rules that are played in our brains?

3. Simple examples, to identify the problem. Our words are transformed into electricity by means of a telephone and revert words by another phone. Or what I write on a keyboard and comes up with a friend. Without these 'processors', it is not possible to 'read the mind' directly into electricity.

4. However, the graphs are Changeux electricity (ionic) and biochemistry neuronal. Neurons are the cells 'animal consciousness': with their SINAPSE, they may be assigned from outside by others, and each affect each other in self-employment. Processors, compared to others, it is the gills and phonation. But for all of us they are not needed, we know what we believe in our graphs, and meant. Happy freedom which allows us to lie to others, we only know.

5. In the case of phone and computer, the distinction between what is said or wrote it as software and cables to the hardware , is fundamental. But what is learning? Is to create graphs of software which, with repetition, becomes hardware, there is the great discovery of Changeux clear difference between our brain and a computer. But there is much more to say about the philosophical limits of the interview of a great scientist.