Wow. The man with no brain is amazing and definitely supports your emulation hypothesis much more than explicit gates! And it fits in with what I was saying as well because as far as I can gather from the pictures of his brain scans, it is the outermost area of the brain that has survived - the cerebral cortex... the part that I suggested most likely had the complexity for logic gates in the first place due to its higher than usual number of interconnections, inhibition dynamics, and feedback loops.
But one question. If there are statistically so many emulated universal gates per whatever mass of complex neural tissue, would that imply that more than one computational system could be in operation at the same time, some leading to consciousness and some not? In much the same way that neurons can partake in may different representations at the same time (i.e. they are reusable). In other words if the gates got there by chance then the number of different permutations/combinations of those gates would presumably create an essentially infinite number of possible circuits, all perhaps in operation at the same time, in parallel?
But one question. If there are statistically so many emulated universal gates per whatever mass of complex neural tissue, would that imply that more than one computational system could be in operation at the same time, some leading to consciousness and some not? In much the same way that neurons can partake in may different representations at the same time (i.e. they are reusable). In other words if the gates got there by chance then the number of different permutations/combinations of those gates would presumably create an essentially infinite number of possible circuits, all perhaps in operation at the same time, in parallel?
