Full Idea
The brain-in-itself is not knowable in its endless, Heraclitean complexity because no finite knowers would be able to theorise it completely and accurately.
Gist of Idea
The brain is endlessly complex, and hence is not knowable by us
Source
Mazviita Chirimuuta (The Brain Abstracted [2024], 7.4)
A Reaction
This is her basic thesis, which I take to be correct. Our lives would go better if the entire human race accepted this fact. One of the attractions of dualism is that the disembodied mind can be seen as simpler, and more understandable.
Book Reference
Mazviita Chirimuuta: 'The Brain Abstracted' [MIT 2024], p.206