A diagram which tells you where the synapses go, so that you’d get e.g. a fight-or-flight response? Vastly more complex.
Type error. The complexity of the details of a specific phenotype are not the same as the complexity of the adaptation. This is especially the case when considering the organ that is explicitly design to adapt to complexity via bulk application of an adaptive neural algorithm. The diagram of synapses involved in a given process will be completely different between genetically identically individuals.
Analogy: I don’t know whether there is more complexity in apples or watermelons. I do know that a lot more can be said about an individual watermelon than about an individual apple, if I represent enough detail.
A diagram which tells you where the synapses go, so that you’d get e.g. a fight-or-flight response? Vastly more complex.
I don’t think it weakens your point (given charitable reading) but using ‘fight-or-flight response’ as the illustration of how the brain is most complex than other organs has difficulties given just how many of those other organs are involved in the response. Especially when a diagram “so that you’d get e.g. a fight-or-flight response” could plausibly be an electric wire stabbed into either the pituitary or adrenal glands.
Type error. The complexity of the details of a specific phenotype are not the same as the complexity of the adaptation. This is especially the case when considering the organ that is explicitly design to adapt to complexity via bulk application of an adaptive neural algorithm. The diagram of synapses involved in a given process will be completely different between genetically identically individuals.
Analogy: I don’t know whether there is more complexity in apples or watermelons. I do know that a lot more can be said about an individual watermelon than about an individual apple, if I represent enough detail.
I don’t think it weakens your point (given charitable reading) but using ‘fight-or-flight response’ as the illustration of how the brain is most complex than other organs has difficulties given just how many of those other organs are involved in the response. Especially when a diagram “so that you’d get e.g. a fight-or-flight response” could plausibly be an electric wire stabbed into either the pituitary or adrenal glands.