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by Workaccount2 312 days ago
Humans have a neuro-chemical system that performs operations with electrical signals.

That's the level to look at, unless you have a dualist view of the brain (we are channeling a super-natural forces).

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Yep, just like like looking at a birds feather through a microscope explains the principles of flight…

Complexity theory doesn’t have a mathematics (yet), but that doesn’t mean we can’t see that it exists. Studying the brain at the lowest levels haven’t lead to any major insights in how cognition functions.

I personally believe that quantum effects play a role and we’ll learn more once we understand the brain at that level, but I recognize that is an intuition and may well be wrong.