The term connect refers to a physical contact between two different referents. L

The term connect refers to a physical contact between two different referents.
Like the verb to-be, which most use to pretend knowledge we don’t have, or pretend mode of existence or identity by conflation or inflation, you’re using “connect” in the same sense.
What you mean is “do our brains identify a pattern of relations from which we might inform or modify our behavior”. Things aren’t connected. We observe true or false, relationships between them.

Things aren’t connected. We identify relationshps between them.

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