Originally Posted by Crowbar
It is amazing the self-congratulatory patting on their backs humans do in calling themselves amazing. I guess unabashed pride has no limits.
As someone who has studied cognitive psychology and neuroscience, I see the brain as something, like all the products of evolution, that is far from optimized and in fact a barely 'will make do in most circumstances' solution. .
I guess you're an expert in Humanity, what you do read a couple books? Give this poster the Nobel prize, he thinks we're inferior to bacteria, brilliant.
Consciousness, yes the brain is the final frontier of modern science and philosophy.