What possible kind of brain-event could be correlated to the meaning of an ordinary word? Lots of different brain processes must be involved. "But this should not be taken to mean that no machine could ever have the range of sensibilities that people have. It merely means that we aren't simple machines; indeed, we should understand that in learning to comprehend the qualities of vast machines, we are still in the dark ages."
(NB: Does this suggest that consciousness etc. emerges from sufficient complexity? NB2: The theme of this chapter appears to be the relationship between the world and the brain.)
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