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by cosmicradiance 664 days ago
Wrong. As per the article - a part of our brain is a prediction machine. A human body is more than the sum of its parts.
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> A human body is more than the sum of its parts.

What does this mean, precisely? How is a human body (or plant, or insect, or reptile/bird/mammal) body ever "more than" it's constituent parts? Wouldn't that violate a conservation law?