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		cosmicradiance on Aug 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Artificial intelligence is losing hype Wrong. As per the article - a part of our brain is a prediction machine. A human body is more than the sum of its parts.

jcgrillo on Aug 21, 2024 [–]

> A human body is more than the sum of its parts.

What does this mean, precisely? How is a human body (or plant, or insect, or reptile/bird/mammal) body ever "more than" it's constituent parts? Wouldn't that violate a conservation law?

ruszki on Aug 21, 2024 | [–]

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