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by ux-app 1147 days ago
>Could you really be confident you understood how it worked by just running experiments on it as a black box

the human brain is a black box, we can certainly learn a lot about it by prodding and poking it.

>Things look like magic especially when you can’t look under the hood.

imagine we had a 100% complete understanding of the mechanical/chemical/electrical functioning of the human brain. Would knowing the magic make it any less magical? in some sense, yes (the mystique would be gone, bye bye dualism), but in a practical sense, not really. It's still an astonishingly useful piece of grey matter.