Full Idea
With its billions of non-identical neuroons and trillions of ever-changing synapses, to concede that the brain is infinitely complex must be more realistic than to hope that is is approximately simple
Gist of Idea
Seeing brains as infinitely complex makes more sense than seeing them as simple
Source
Mazviita Chirimuuta (The Brain Abstracted [2024], 1.5.3)
A Reaction
Splendid advice! They are obviously both wrong, but as a heuristic we will make much more progress in philosophy if we just say the brain's complexity is eternally beyond our grasp. I think 21st century intellectual life begins when this thought meets AI.
Book Reference
Mazviita Chirimuuta: 'The Brain Abstracted' [MIT 2024], p.28