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Brain Cells and the Universe
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RE: Brain Cells and the Universe
(February 7, 2013 at 12:44 pm)Zone Wrote: The brain has that specific pattern because the pattern relates to the function of conscious. Therefore the universe must be doing the exact same thing, an application of pure reasoned deduction there.

This doesn't strike me as being even remotely true. (And yes, I'm guessing you're being sarcastic here.) While it's not entirely clear what the biological prerequisites of consciousness are, or even what its parts necessarily might be, it does appear fundamental that whatever brain features contribute to the existence of consciousness, all of them lie at a higher level, structurally, than that of the microscopic features of clumps of brain cells. Nuclei appear to play a fundamental role in the logical structure of the brain, but it's not even clear there as to whether that's a necessary feature of the biological architecture or just an artifact of the way we describe the brain.


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Brain Cells and the Universe - by FallentoReason - January 11, 2013 at 1:34 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by KichigaiNeko - January 11, 2013 at 4:22 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Kayenneh - January 11, 2013 at 4:24 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Zone - February 2, 2013 at 11:34 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Angrboda - February 3, 2013 at 4:50 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Anomalocaris - February 6, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Re: Brain Cells and the Universe - by fr0d0 - February 3, 2013 at 5:08 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Confused Ape - February 3, 2013 at 5:16 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Zone - February 3, 2013 at 5:56 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Confused Ape - February 3, 2013 at 6:13 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Zone - February 3, 2013 at 8:14 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Confused Ape - February 3, 2013 at 8:40 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by pocaracas - February 3, 2013 at 8:49 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Confused Ape - February 3, 2013 at 10:08 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Zone - February 6, 2013 at 2:57 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by pocaracas - February 3, 2013 at 7:29 am
Brain Cells and the Universe - by JDFlood - February 6, 2013 at 2:19 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Confused Ape - February 6, 2013 at 3:37 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Angrboda - February 6, 2013 at 5:30 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by JDFlood - February 7, 2013 at 12:19 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by justin - February 7, 2013 at 1:01 am
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Zone - February 7, 2013 at 12:44 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Angrboda - February 7, 2013 at 2:25 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Anomalocaris - February 7, 2013 at 2:47 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Psykhronic - February 7, 2013 at 2:12 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Zone - February 7, 2013 at 3:07 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Anomalocaris - February 7, 2013 at 3:23 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Zone - February 7, 2013 at 4:07 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Anomalocaris - February 7, 2013 at 4:11 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Zone - February 7, 2013 at 4:26 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Anomalocaris - February 7, 2013 at 4:54 pm
RE: Brain Cells and the Universe - by Zone - February 8, 2013 at 12:05 pm

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