The article would be better served by exploring the “explanatory gap” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_gap?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E

The article would be better served by exploring the “explanatory gap” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_gap?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_gap?wprov=sfti1) — how is it that neurons firing in a parallel asynchronous manner leads to sequential synchronous experience and thought? How is it that matter leads to what many people throughout history have understood as “spirit”. The question can be restated more clearly: why aren’t we all philosophical zombies? Or more generally: why is there something rather than nothing? It may never be possible to answer this question, but does an answer matter? We know that it is possible to arrange a physical system (the brain) in such a way that a mind emerges. At some point we will be able to develop such systems in silicon. We don’t need to know why there is something rather than nothing to do so. We simply have to follow the patterns that we know work