If I don’t understand COBOL, and the inert neurones certainly don’t, how can the conjunction of the two understand COBOL?
This one appears to assume reductionism is false: the same reasoning can apply to properly organized heap of neurons. Indeed an intuition pump, for we are dualists by default.
(Come to think of it, doesn’t non-reductionism come from treating our ignorance as positive knowledge? In that case, the mind seems irreducible only because we just don’t know how to reduce it yet.)
This one appears to assume reductionism is false: the same reasoning can apply to properly organized heap of neurons. Indeed an intuition pump, for we are dualists by default.
(Come to think of it, doesn’t non-reductionism come from treating our ignorance as positive knowledge? In that case, the mind seems irreducible only because we just don’t know how to reduce it yet.)