>Could you really be confident you understood how it worked by just running experiments on it as a black box the human brain is a black box, we can certainly l

>Could you really be confident you understood how it worked by just running experiments on it as a black box the human brain is a black box, we can certainly learn a lot about it by prodding and poking it. >Things look like magic especially when you can’t look under the hood. imagine we had a 100% complete understanding of the mechanical/chemical/electrical functioning of the human brain. Would knowing the magic make it any less magical? in some sense, yes (the mystique would be gone, bye bye dualism), but in a practical sense, not really. It's still an astonishingly useful piece of grey matter.