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From: Kai Stevenson <kai@kaistevenson.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:30:46 -0800
Subject: wrote more hard problem, removed git commands from updatesite

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 	human history, and is deeply important to the philosophy and religion of a significant portion of those alive today.
 </p>
 <h2>The Problem</h2>
+<p>
+	If the brain adequately explains human psychology, if thoughts are merely specific patterns of neurons firing,
+	it seems that there is no place for the soul in modern science.
+</p>
+<h2>Thought Experiment</h2>
+<p>
+	Suppose we had access to some form of device capable of precisely measuring the exact state of every neuron and neurotransmitter
+	in some test subject's brain. Suppose that we could record this data over a few minutes, and run the tape in reverse, observing the
+	cause of every effect. We would introduce some stimulus to the subject--say, a red cube--who would have been instructed to describe
+	what he sees. We would observe his statement, "I see a red cube," and end the recording.
+	We begin analyzing the data. First, we note which neurons were responsible for signalling the muscular activity required to create
+	speech. We name this set N0. We record the set of all neurons whose axon terminals had interaction with any neuron in N0, and name
+	these after the neuron with which they interacted. We iteratively perform this regress until we have a tree structure which contains
+	every neuron involved in the signal processing from observation to statement.	
+</p>
+<p>
+	The question is as follows: would, at any point in the recording, a neuron demonstrate behaviour not in line with the action
+	potential model? Specifically, would a neuron ever fire without a measurable physical cause? In the case where this does occur,
+	we have observed what appears to be something very strange--a physical effect without a physical cause. In the case where this
+	does not occur, we have observed something perhaps stranger. 
+</p>
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