Re: To sum up

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:05:14 +1100, MarkE <me22over7@gmail.com> wrote:

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'The human brain contains some 100 billion neurons, which together form
a network of Internet-like complexity. Christof Koch, chief scientific
officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, calls the brain "the
most complex object in the known universe," and he's mapping its
connections in hopes of discovering the origins of consciousness.'
http://www.npr.org/2013/06/14/191614360/decoding-the-most-complex-object-in-the-universe
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'According to physicist Roger Penrose, what's in our head is orders of
magnitude more complex than anything one sees in the Universe: "If you
look at the entire physical cosmos," says Penrose, "our brains are a
tiny, tiny part of it. But they're the most perfectly organized part.
Compared to the complexity of a brain, a galaxy is just an inert lump."'
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'Each cubic millimeter of tissue in the neocortex, reports Michael
Chorost in World Wide Mind, contains between 860 million and 1.3 billion
synapses. Estimates of the total number of synapses in the neocortex
range from 164 trillion to 200 trillion. The total number of synapses in
the brain as a whole is much higher than that. The neocortex has the
same number of neurons as a galaxy has stars: 100 billion. One
researcher estimates that with current technology it would take 10,000
automated microscopes thirty years to map the connections between every
neuron in a human brain, and 100 million terabytes of disk space to
store the data.'
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/12/human-brain-intelligence-networks-identified-.html
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Can we deduce "complexity therefore design" from this? That's one question.
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However, another question that needs to be asked is, can we deduce "that
evolution can create sentient beings due to a galaxy of functional
complexity inside their heads"?

The question I would like to see you address is how your Intelligent
Designer might have gone about this.

The human brain indeed has unique characteristics in terms of its
ability and functions. Other species do not have those
characteristics, but they do have similar brain structures and, as
Ernest has pointed out in several examples, those brains can sometimes
be argued to be even more complex than the human one. So how do you
think your Intelligent Designer went about this? Did he play around
with various prototype brain designs on other species and then come up
with a particular design that he decided to give to humans alone?