Posted: Sep 17, 2018 3:55 pm
by Macdoc
The brain is mapping what is exposed to and combining recurrent, new and stored input ....

Your Brain Sees Faces, Even When You Don't - Live Science
https://www.livescience.com › Health
Sep 21, 2017 - Researchers have identified a neuron in the brain that can recognize familiar ... the "Jennifer Aniston neuron" — a single neuron in a study participant's brain that ...


It's not really strange if you buy into the comparative/mapping aspect of the brain.

The Brain Never Stops Making Maps

OCTOBER 22, 2017BY ELIZABETH BORNEMANMAPS AND GIS

https://www.geolounge.com/brain-never-s ... king-maps/

Recognising faces - The Brain in Action
https://www.thebraininaction.com/face-recognition/
by P Moleman - ‎Related articles
Oct 12, 2017 - And one can do this with thousands of faces: a clever trick of our brains. ... Each neuron that is involved in facial recognition measures any one dimension.


I don't think it's a philo question at all....it may be a definition problem.
I'm not of the opinion that our neural net is composed only of consciousness activity ....it's a spectrum from autonomic, to dream/lucid dream, to recorded but not noticed to fully aware.

It IS complex