fizan

Thanks for sharing the link, I missed that interesting discussion. I think there is a lot of material on both sides of the argument to be discussed and this post nicely ties much of that in as well.

There is an ongoing debate about how similar the Universe is to the brain. Astrophysicist Franco Vazza, along with a neuroscientist recently conducted a quantitative analysis which adds more evidence of the unusual similarities.

That would indeed be useful. I haven't been able to find any such criticism or post-mortem studies.

That's true. However, it seems contrary to current neuroscientific theories.

Mice and humans are not identical. As we do not know what imagination in bacteria may be like the same applies for mice too. My point is whatever 'that' is, is not imagination (because imagination is only known to us). For other beings, it is something else.

In the general sense processing of such learned behavior happens in the bacteria, the rodent and in humans. The processing in bacteria is simpler than the rodent. The rodents processing is simpler than the humans. But they all occur using chemical processes.

So if we can extend the courtesy of imagination to rodents why not extend it to bacteria as well?