Fun sneaky confidence exercise (reasons why exercise is fun and sneaky to be revealed later):
Please reply to this comment with your probability level that the "highest" human mental functions, such as reasoning and creative thought, operate solely on a substrate of neurons in the physical brain.
Yvain, are you going to follow up on this now that you seem to have somewhat more time for participation here? ;)
Where are the new monthly threads when I need them? A pox on the +11 EDT zone!
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