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Jiang does not settle for an evolutionary explanation alone and instead presses toward the question of where empathy is actually located or grounded.
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Jiang leaves the mechanism unresolved and thereby creates space for a later move toward empathy as something possibly irreducible to brain theory alone.
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Jiang turns the discussion from moral memory to an epistemic challenge: before claiming the brain stores memory, one must show actual evidence for that storage claim rather than assume it.
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Jiang answers with a distributed-storage model: the brain is like a smartphone accessing the internet, while memory is stored on a larger cloud outside the individual brain.
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Jiang argues that the brain's ordinary function is to anchor human beings to the material world by strategically filtering information needed for survival rather than exposing the full field of reality.
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The follow-up student comment argues that unlimited or non-obviously bounded human memory capacity counts against a simple hardware-storage model of memory.
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Jiang says human imaginative leaps would require enormous computational processing if translated into machine terms, which pressures a simple computer analogy for the brain.
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The body metaphor opens a further question about cognition by implying that the universe can receive ideas and enact them through something like a brain or mind.
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"...of evolution? Yes. Okay. Then where is empathy located in our brains then?"
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"I think there are certain regions that activate in a mother's brain when her baby is crying. And I think that crying is like..."
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"Okay, so two years old is when we develop the mirror neurons, right? Okay. Alright. I'm not convinced mirror neurons actually exist. It's a..."
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"Yes? I am totally on your side. I believe that empathy is beyond one mind and it's definitely a divine emotion."
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"...stored uh physical material yeah where's your memory stored sorry in brain are you sure uh uh I I am pretty sure have you..."
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"...evidence do we have that memories are stored inside the human brain we have nothing Google um evidence that the memories are stored inside..."
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"So think of the internet, and our brains are just smartphones that access the internet. So our memories are stored on the cloud, and..."
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"...you take a certain psychedelic and the argument is that our brains exist in order to anchor ourselves to this material world and we..."
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"...children right yeah and this is what yeah so so your brain is strategic in how it absorbs information and then how it actually..."
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"comment so if the brain uh if the memory is stored in the hardware is stored in the brain as a hardware um there..."
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"...to have these conversations right like if in fact that the brain is like a computer and there are synapses then there should be..."
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"...A body can, like, receive ideas and then enact them. The brain, right? Yeah, basically. And so what's a brain?"
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