Thanks for the info. He seems rather more lucid than some of the other writers and more in line with my thinking so I'll take him with a grain of salt as I familiarize myself with his writings.

I don't think "mind" is the necessarily wrong word. When I was beat by a chess machine in 1981 I sensed an intelligence that felt like a mind. I didn't know anything about computers then. I imagine a lot of people are having that experience right now.