[L_Rahman]

I agree with your position. But I want to add a warning against the humanization of the brain. Many parts of it are complex in unknown ways, but some parts are truly mechanical.

The parts of your central nervous system that respond to reflexes, that locate the source of sound or parse the color of retinal input are far more similar to deep learning algorithms than they are to what we think of as human consciousness.

[fnl]

Because that has nothing to do with consciousness... Every living cell can perceive such inputs, even the simplest of prokaryotes can "sniff" out their food sources.

[taneq]

> Many parts of it are complex in unknown ways, but some parts are truly mechanical.

I feel like this is a bit of a false dichotomy. We've never encountered any spooky non-mechanical non-physical part of the brain, and we've been looking since Cartesian dualism was in vogue.

What we think of as human consciousness is likely just a bunch of feedback loops allowing the brain to analyze some of its own state as if it were an external entity.

[randcraw]

The same oversimplification could have been made of the visual system before we became aware of specialized cortical units and their federated/hierarchical arrangement.

In time I suspect we'll yet discover that much of the brain is inhomogeneous in unexpected ways and peculiarly interconnected. If it were not, we'd understand more about how it works by now.