Mrzzy:

The model that the brain has no owner, but is itelf the place where thought itself comes from out of its complexity of neurons, synapses and combinatorial multiples thereof, ignores the possibility that -- if the WERE a psyche it would apprently have to use the brain as a step-down transformer and switching device for command relay and pulling perceptics off the nerves.

Similarly, it is easy to imagine a superstitious or at least unsophisticated primitive person looking at a cell phone and wondering how all those conversations got into the little box of wires. "Every time you pick it up it starts telling some strange person's story! Amazing. WHat a machine!! SOmeday we will figure out the complex wiring int his thing, and see how those stories are generated by those little wires, capacitors, resistors and chokes. RIght now the complexity of the design is too great to see how it really works, but give us time."

I know the metaphor is stretched, but the fact that people can't operate bodies with damaged brains does not in any way prove that people ARE brains.

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