A single neuron in the human brain can respond only to what the neurons connected to it are doing, but all of them together can be Immanuel Kant. That's a lame

A single neuron in the human brain can respond only to what the neurons connected to it are doing, but all of them together can be Immanuel Kant. That's a lamentable example, though oddly appropriate given the recent "more philosophy majors" story. As the Harvard Lampoon's A Harvard Education in a Book wryly observed, "Immanuel Kant is most famous for his great contribution to the study of ethics, which is: 'What if everyone did that?'" A better summary of the Categorical Imperative, I've never seen. I'll take the ants any day. At least they wouldn't turn me in if an axe murderer showed up looking for me.