Comment by estearum

> Are newly born babies reacting due to statistical probabilities that they have derived, or are they using something other than their brains?

The answer is obviously yes lol.

The creature is an assemblage of electrical, chemical, and kinetic relationships.

Watching a baby develop is exactly what you'd expect from a system that's predominantly electrical noise triggering behaviors and then gradually refining denoising the relationship between inputs and outputs, with the goal function of achieving more desirable inputs.

Surely you can at least gesture toward one thing in the brain that appears not to be a probabilistic relationship between input and output?