You ae nothing but a pack of neurons.

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.’ Though this is usually read (and often quoted) as the acme of brazen reductionism.

Yet to say that our behaviour is based on a vast,

interacting assembly of neurons should not

diminish our view of ourselves but enlarge it

tremendously, for  consciousness

emerges from neuronal features of

the brain’

We still need more data (the

reductionist faith in a nutshell) but it will come.