For whatever reason, most of the programmers I know are intrigued in some way by brains; maybe it's something to do with being able to handle abstraction, or seeing consciousness as just another process or program, or something like that. Throw in how we're all used to debugging systems by observing the way break down produce emergent behavior, and something like this story becomes a fascinating tidbit about and potential insight into the functionality of the human mind.

Indeed. To the extent you can separate your viewpoint from the horror of it, it is truly fascinating.

"What to Submit [...] If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

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