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When people can function at a high level without large parts of their brain I find it hard to believe brains are the source of truth for behavior.

Wounds heal without appreciable activity in the brain.

Neurons are just electrical state we call neurons as a shorthand way of saying “electrical state in the brain”.

This just smacks as some form of geocentrism; “why of course the brain is the center of being.”

Gabe Newell talks about interfacing with the cortex as a tractable problem but we have no idea where to start to induce a sensation of feeling cold.

Michael Levin at Tufts is triggering regeneration manipulating electrical state in limbs directly, not the brain.

There’s more to it than the brain itself, which is why I think using neurons as a model for consciousness will never achieve AI that isn’t obvious.