One could also accurately say this:
“If you had enough resources, you could run a human brain on a wooden system of gears and diesel power. It would be massive, but watching the gears and levers move, it would be evident that the outputs are not the result of a mind. Part of the illusion of human thought is the tiny scale of neurons.”
What is going on here? Do the doofs not realize how clownish this all sounds?
By the way, this is nearly word for word Leibniz’s mill argument from the Monadology. Except this person of course would not know that. There, ol’ Leibniz imagined a thinking machine enlarged to the size of a mill. However, the same thought experiment works for your own brain. If you enlarged that to the size a mill (or a city), all you’d see is ion channels pumping and some flashes of electricity. There would be no thought or reasoning visible anywhere; just organic mechanism.
Try as you might, you still would not find that damn pesky ghost. And that’s because it’s nowhere to be found.
