Bee:

Pardon me if I don't jump onto the thought-from-meat bandwagon. Material science loves taking apart the sections of the brain and observing that doing so interrupts certain behavors, or watching various significance light up different parts of the brain. What these actually show is that the brain is an intermediary between thought and activity. What they would like to tell you it shows is that the brain is the source of thought and action. These are very, very different conclusions and the broader one is an assumption of faith that there will always be a material explanation for everything including consciousness.

Why so much faith should be placed in something as mindless and inert as molecules is a little biut beyond me, really. But ther eis such a glaring gap between all th eknown capabilities of brain-ware, and the known high-end capabilities of thought, that I think conflating them is just ...unthoughtful.. :D

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