Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
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Neurons Are Teleodynamic. Every Neuron Is Alive.
To what extent do you think biological brains really are like computers? And to what extent are thoughts and things, cognitive operations, things like that, reducible to a series of computations? I like to say that machines don't think and brains don't compute. What they're doing is not maintaining themselves. It's not generating itself. There's nothing about the cogs in a clock or the gates in a computer that are about producing clogs or producing gates or maintaining clogs or gates. Everything about a neuron is about maintaining itself. Every neurons is teleodynamic. Every neuron is alive.
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