Just speculating here - I wonder if the human cortex is somehow "special" in that regard. What if evolutionary pressure in the past drove the increase of comput

Just speculating here - I wonder if the human cortex is somehow "special" in that regard. What if evolutionary pressure in the past drove the increase of computing power in the cortex so much that now you could have new emerging properties and "features" and so on come out by simply re-wiring what's already there. You know, like when you're Amazon and you build a huge infrastructure to serve existing business, only to realize later you could do a lot more with it by simply re-purposing and re-configuring.