[jcora]

I'd call this pulling a Dennett: trivializing complexity to something that cannot or just doesn't have to be explained. Being unable to conceive consciousness at this moment doesn't mean there's nothing to conceive of: even if we never get to the final satisfactory answer, there is undoubtedly much more room left for useful concepts we don't have yet, around or inside this idea

[clicea]

I'd call bullshit. Dennett's argument not that the brain is complex but that it's not obvious it is not reductible.

[sgt101]

That's a lot of nots. So you are saying that Dennett says that the brain might be reducible[1]?

I don't think that's a strong claim or that it even qualifies as a claim at all. Lots of things might decompose into simple components if subjected to the right analysis, very few things definitely won't - for example many clever people have spent a great deal of time attempting to reduce quantum and cosmic scale physics to simple intuitively founded laws... If Dennett's claim is that the human brain is the same order of object as the universe I can accept it only if we agree that all objects share the same order. Where does that get us?

[1] Apologies, I don't know what reductible means, but guessed typo - I'm open to education though and unworried by typos!