> You can't, however, predict how will my day change if a beautiful stranger smiles at me during my morning commute (even if these reactions and changes are produced by "very simple parts"). There's no mystical shroud here; just acknowledging that emergent behavior is complex.
Just like you can't predict the change in pixels on a screen when some bit is flipped on the network wire.
> We may come to understand "the brains" as a system of simple parts. However, we're not sure of that; acting as if it was a sure-thing is faith, not so much different from religious faith.
The scientific method has reduced a huge majority of the world (and virtually everything that was once a matter of faith) to a system of ever simpler parts. The meta-theory that everything can be reduced to simpler parts is probably one of the most solid theories in all of science.
Furthermore, if you agree that evolution is a thing, then the argument that organic systems are built out of simpler parts is almost a foregone conclusion.
Just like you can't predict the change in pixels on a screen when some bit is flipped on the network wire.
> We may come to understand "the brains" as a system of simple parts. However, we're not sure of that; acting as if it was a sure-thing is faith, not so much different from religious faith.
The scientific method has reduced a huge majority of the world (and virtually everything that was once a matter of faith) to a system of ever simpler parts. The meta-theory that everything can be reduced to simpler parts is probably one of the most solid theories in all of science.
Furthermore, if you agree that evolution is a thing, then the argument that organic systems are built out of simpler parts is almost a foregone conclusion.