Can brain cells create human consciousness, or does it come from somewhere else?
I asked a similar question a while back and didn’t get any answers which really helped. The obvious answer is that we don’t know. The question is really whether we are aware because our brains are so extremely complicated. The problem with that is that you then have to ask if less simple creatures have awareness, e.g. an amoeba. If not, how complex does a brain have to be to become aware? It all seems so ridiculous because you might end up concluding that awareness occurs in a brain with more than 99 billion trillion cells or something. At the same time you would then expect awareness to disappear when removing a certain number of cells from a brain. While it’s pretty obvious that at some point the brain will die, there appears to be no actual number of cells or even area of the brain which can be removed and we can say “there you are – the awareness has gone”. The next question is whether it would be possible for a machine to be so complex that it becomes aware. Although I’m not relig
