What would Aristotle say?
His doctrine of the 4 causes of being and his development of LOGIC from Socratic and Platonic dialectic, although he, personally, did not take credit for the discovery of logic. Your friend below who says that Aristotle thought that the brain was a useless organ is partly right, but mostly wrong. Aristotle thought that the brain was a “cooling mechanism” for the body and also thought that the heart was the most likely physical organ with which “thought” was associated. But he never thought that there was any bodily organ actually responsible for the power of thought. That he attributed to an immaterial power of “the psyche” or life principle of humans. After all, every animal has a brain — some of their brains are just as good as our brains at processing information — in some cases even better than our brains, since their brains never get confused by thinking. eg. No mere bat has to think about how to fly around at night and eat its dinner of insects “on the wing”. You can blind-fo
