The problem with this line of thinking is that a brain by itself is not intelligent, it has to be inside a live person who has sensory access to the outside wor

The problem with this line of thinking is that a brain by itself is not intelligent, it has to be inside a live person who has sensory access to the outside world. Hawkins suggests the neocortex is the center of language and music, but those skills require a counter party to communicate with and the hearing sense, as well as a mountain of historical sensations that put music in context. A brain in a vat doesn’t have any of these, even though it has the exact same neural structure.