Comment by biff1
4 days ago
Well, if you are making the assertion, which you implicitly seem to be, you must first define thought. Is a word == thought? And of correlations, we all know the adage about correlation and causation. Not that I would make the counter argument, that thought is not encoded by electrical signals, but I would bet you aren’t totally correct. Do you think there will be no future paradigm shifts?
I think we may not be disagreeing much…
Agree fMRI doesn’t tell us for sure what information is in electrical activity. I only mean to imply it’s suggestive.
But we still can get a lot of information from electrodes. Do words count as thoughts? I’d say so.
Definitely don’t think electrical signals are all there is to thought.
They’re definitely part of it, but I think time will show unlike with computer parts, it’s hard to make clean separation of responsibilities in the brain.