And what gives brains this unique power? Do brains of lesser animals also have this unique “thinking” property? Is this “thinking” a result of how the brain is architected out of atoms and if so why can’t other machines emulate it?
Our brains are the product of the same dumb evolutionary process that made every other plant and animal and fungus and virus. We evolved from animals capable of only the most basic form of pattern recognition. Humans in the absence of education are not capable of even the most basic reasoning. It took us untold thousands of years to figure out that “try things and measure if it works” is a good way to learn about the world. An intelligent species would be able to figure things out by itself our ancestors, who have the same brain architecture we do, were not able to figure anything out for generation after generation. So much for our ability to do original independent thinking.
Our brains are the product of the same dumb evolutionary process that made every other plant and animal and fungus and virus. We evolved from animals capable of only the most basic form of pattern recognition. Humans in the absence of education are not capable of even the most basic reasoning. It took us untold thousands of years to figure out that “try things and measure if it works” is a good way to learn about the world. An intelligent species would be able to figure things out by itself our ancestors, who have the same brain architecture we do, were not able to figure anything out for generation after generation. So much for our ability to do original independent thinking.