so i have this class called western philosophy, and this question came up, and i was wondering, 'what would simple planes do?'.
here is my POV
me, being a scientific minded person, would immediatley think that a thought is the firing of neurons along a certain pathway.different signlas along different pathways for a thought.
but then i wondered...
if thought is nothing but a neuron firing, and all thought is electrical/electrochemical, then how do 'we' translate this electricity into our, well, thoughts!
what does our brain do to translate these electric signals into a comprehensible medium, one that is more or less equivilant among all humans?
please share your ideas
thank you for your time
-uq
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I think the translation of neurons firing into recognisable thoughts is analogous to making a net out of ropes. You can't have a net without rope, just as you can't have thought without firing neurons. But just having pieces of rope doesn't make a net, and just having neurons firing doesn't make a thought (you don't generally think about the neural activity in your autonomic nervous system for example). To weave a net out of rope, the individual ropes have to meet each other, they have to interact and change how they behave. Similarly with neurons firing, they have to affect each other and increase their activity in a specific way to create a recognisable thought.
Woah. This is not what I should be reading when I have a midterm in an hour.
When the first creatures started to pop up, they needed some way to react to stimuli. They did this by adapting receptors to detect certain chemicals. Eventually, over time, these creatures began to grow bigger and their receptors more complex. Billions of years later and after much evolution, animals grew brains and the ability to form their own thoughts by triggering these chemicals artificially and at will
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