> I don't know, but it doesn't matter, just like it doesn't matter if the code on your computer is on a HDD or SSD. But it does matter! You arbitrarily dismiss

> I don't know, but it doesn't matter, just like it doesn't matter if the code on your computer is on a HDD or SSD. But it does matter! You arbitrarily dismiss the brain as "wrong level of abstraction" then bring up the computer which internals we know and understand as an example of parallel system. If both are same, where's the hard drive in the brain? Which part of the brain is the CPU dedicated to consciousness? We know regions of brain are specialized in function, like the computers. > But nevertheless, until people realize that this is what they should attempt, or research how it can be done, I feel we won't make any progress on the nature of consciousness. This reminds me of the famous Andy Grove's fallacy. To paraphrase: The engineers tend to apply knowledge and concepts of their field to biology because they think both engineered and organic systems are the same. In doing so they miss the elementary difference that engineering is about creation and development of new systems, and biology is about researching and understanding existing systems we have no prior knowledge of.