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


You understand how the brain works?

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


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


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


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.




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