What Exactly IS Intelligence? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Tuesday, September 07, 2010, 06:38 (4977 days ago) @ romansh

No one knows. All mediated by chemistry and the production of ions. 
> So are you saying there may be a neuron or synapse that does not respond to cause and effect? Well I suppose this is testable, but I'm not volunteering for that experiment. -
I doubt that synapses refuse to respond, unless an impulse from another neuron blocks the response, which raises another issue of complexity. What is beyond doubt at this moment is no one knows what consciousness is in relation to the brain. It 'seems' to arise from the brain, but at a level that makes it 'feel' separate from the brain, as each of us experiences it. it must be a quantum effect involving spookiness at a distance, a la Einstein. Nothing else feels right.