noahfor

Each neuron in the brain is connected to so many other neurons. All a neuron can do is send messages to other neurons telling them to either send a message or not send a message, and then depending on the messages it receives the other neuron wll either send a message or not send a message. If this is not exactly the way it works it doesn't really matter.

If there were as many people as there are neurons in my brain, all with cell phones, and each person represented one of my neurons, so each person has a certain amount of phone numbers and can call these numbers and tell the other people to call their numbers. Anyway, if this calling sequence mimicked the sequence of neurons firing in my brain now. Would this system of people calling on cell phones suddenly become conscious and think it was sitting at a computer, not the individual people, but the thing as a whole. Fun question I think.

I think it would.