I don't think that we are in the territory of having that argument at all to be honest. We don't know what the processes that the brain self evidently generates

I don't think that we are in the territory of having that argument at all to be honest. We don't know what the processes that the brain self evidently generates are - for example Intelligence, Consciousness. It isn't possible to discuss how these are executed (or not, depending) until we have some understanding of what they really are. And we don't, and worse, we may not ever have access to these concepts, as Hofstadter and others have argued. It may not be possible to represent the idea of ideas in an idea. That of which we cannot speak that thereof we must remain silent, or something.