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It may be a fallacy to assume a neuron is less complex than a brain. Depends on how one measures complexity and at what scale... but living systems -- unlike no
by lurquer 8y ago
It may be a fallacy to assume a neuron is less complex than a brain. Depends on how one measures complexity and at what scale... but living systems -- unlike no living systems -- strangely get more complex the closer in one goes. That is, it's fairly trivial to simulate an earthworm... it's trickier to simulate the components of the earthworm.
- klodolph 8y agoThis is a completely minor point here... but "fallacy" means that there's something wrong with the argument, if you have a disagreement about facts or assumptions then the word "fallacy" doesn't really apply (you can just say "wrong" instead).
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- lurquer 8y agoIt suffers from the fallacy of petitio principii, in that it assumes arguendo that consciousness is comprised of neurons (and, as mentioned above, that a neuron is less complex than consciousness.) But it's not stated as an 'argument' in any case so perhaps the term fallacy was out-of-place.
- klodolph 8y agoPetitio principii is when the premise assumes the truth of the conclusion, but since there is no argument and no conclusion it's impossible for the statement to suffer from that fallacy.
- lurquer 8y agoYou're right. Shouldn't have posted that. I just wanted the last word. (Dammit... did it again!)