CronoDAS comments on Open Thread: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yvain 01 February 2010 12:39:10PM 6 points [-]

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.

Comment author: CronoDAS 01 February 2010 08:29:17PM *  3 points [-]

To get nitpicky, the brain is made of both neurons and glial cells - and the glial cells also seem to play a role in cognition.