A research team at Caltech discovered in 2005 that individual brain cells can fire in response to visual stimuli of individual people or places, which conflicted previous conjectures that visual recognition was an emergent phenomenon of large networks of neurons.

- In line with this, it would seem to me that thinking: 'When enough neurons are networked then self awareness (or indeed anything) emerges", is more akin to believing in magic than science.

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