[Lambdanaut]

You understand how the brain works right? It's probability distributions mapped to sodium ion channels. The human understands nothing.

[claytongulick]

You understand how the brain works?

You're the one then. All those laggardly neurobiologists are still struggling.

[0xdeadbeefbabe]

I've heard that this human brain is rigged to find what it wants to find.

[aydyn]

Thats how the brain works, not how the mind works. We understand the hardware, not the software.

[kipchak]

Are we even sure we understand the hardware? My understanding is even that is contested, for example orchestrated objective reduction, holonomic brain theory or GVF theory.