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Before you can explain the effect of interconnecting 89 billion neurons, it‘s too soon to search for pixie dust.
by __m 2y ago
Before you can explain the effect of interconnecting 89 billion neurons, it‘s too soon to search for pixie dust.
- spoonfeeder006 2y agoWell it is true that I am only supposing that explaining an observable process in and of itself cannot intrinsically explain conscious awareness Its good to keep an open mind about stuff, and recognize that knowledge of all kinds is only tentative All of us are finite and ignorant Perhaps we can someday identify physical artifacts of conscious awareness, but how does that explain the root of conscious awareness? There is a difference between that and showing that conscious awareness is physically plausible, and perhaps even likely, according to experiment alone as opposed to our own personal experiences Perhaps if we understood more about the brain, that would open our eyes to something we cannot even imagine today that would shed light on this issue Perhaps science alone has capabilities that are more profound that we can see today, in being able to delve into such issues?
- em-bee 2y agodon't we have the same problem with gravity? we can measure and calculate the effect, but we can't explain it. at least some attempts to explain it call for particles like gravitons that haven't been found yet. this seems to me just like looking for pixie dust to explain consciousness.