Francis, there is a tediously simple principle behind the mind but it’s occurrin

Francis, there is a tediously simple principle behind the mind but it’s occurring in massively parallel competitions for the simple reason that survival from competition is the only way to ‘know’ anything with sufficient consistency and certainty to act.

WHat you’re implying (Correctly) is that this simplicity emerges into a hierarchy of variations and those variations compete for attention. That’s true.

So the more beneficial interpretation that you’re suggesting is that excessive reduction of neurological phenomena obscure the emergent properties that produce the resulting complexity. As such neither overgeneralize by reduction to the very first causes, or overgeneralize by generalization to the observable consequences.

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