Seeing red

[Angrboda]

I think I've been clear throughout that it is the system that matters.  You keep taking pieces of the system out and asking me if they're the system?  No, the pieces aren't; the system is.

Well, if the brain (which is the system in question I suppose, we can talk about DNA later) is the system, and also the idea, then I'm not sure what an idea is at all.  I had assumed that discrete configurations of encoded information were the ideas, and that the brain was the context in which ideas would have meaning.

The brain isn't the system. The system includes all the parts of the feedback loop, including the efferent body, the world we are interacting with, and our perceptual systems.