>it doesn't really matter - to quote one of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's best turns of phrase: "the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you"

Right back at you, brochacho. I'm not the one making a positive claim here. You're the one who insists that it must work in a specific way because you can't conceive of any alternatives. I have never seen ANY evidence or study linking any existent AI or computer system to human cognition.

>There's no need or benefit for searching for unnecessarily complicated alternative interpretations.

Thanks, if it's alright with you I might borrow this argument next time somebody tries to tell me the world isn't flat.

>It simply doesn't look

That's one of those phrases you use when you're REALLY confident that you know what you're talking about.

> like we need anything more, in principle, to fully explain the nature of biological intelligence, and consciousness, and how brains work.

Please fully explain the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and how brains work.

>Mind as interdimensional radios, mystical souls and spirits, quantum tubules, none of that stuff has any basis in a ruthlessly rational and scientific review of the science of cognition.

well i definitely never said anything even remotely similar to that. If i didn't know any better i might call this argument a "hallucination".