Posted: Aug 04, 2017 8:22 pm
What's with the "...but anyone who knows amything about brains would realise this." crack? Is it necessary? Did that make you feel like you know more about this than I do?
It's a detail that doesn't detract from the point of my post. But, it may be that my post isn't in the best topic for it. I didn't find one specifically discussing the evolution of human intelligence or the rise of consciousness, a thing which eludes a clear definition.
In my post, I purposely omitted possible areas of the brain that seem to be responsible for this or that emotion. It didn't matter to what I was writing. But, what you replied does lend weight to an idea that certain groups of neurons have different functions. That isn't to say that they function particularly differently, but the functions they collectively perform do different things. That's a good correlation to my ideas, I think.
Ultimately, it has to come down to what neurons can be grown to do, with a basis in DNA directing it.
I wonder how different its neurons are in construction than those in other parts of the brain. Or, is the difference found in how interconnected its neurons are?
At some point, it seems obvious, we want to be able to explain the chain of events from DNA all the way to consciousness. Having read the wiki article on that amygdala, it is apparent that the gaps in the knowledge of what happens in between those two endpoints are becoming smaller and smaller.
Does there exist some reason to think we won't put it all together to a point when we understand it pretty well?
It's a detail that doesn't detract from the point of my post. But, it may be that my post isn't in the best topic for it. I didn't find one specifically discussing the evolution of human intelligence or the rise of consciousness, a thing which eludes a clear definition.
In my post, I purposely omitted possible areas of the brain that seem to be responsible for this or that emotion. It didn't matter to what I was writing. But, what you replied does lend weight to an idea that certain groups of neurons have different functions. That isn't to say that they function particularly differently, but the functions they collectively perform do different things. That's a good correlation to my ideas, I think.
Ultimately, it has to come down to what neurons can be grown to do, with a basis in DNA directing it.
I wonder how different its neurons are in construction than those in other parts of the brain. Or, is the difference found in how interconnected its neurons are?
At some point, it seems obvious, we want to be able to explain the chain of events from DNA all the way to consciousness. Having read the wiki article on that amygdala, it is apparent that the gaps in the knowledge of what happens in between those two endpoints are becoming smaller and smaller.
Does there exist some reason to think we won't put it all together to a point when we understand it pretty well?