See the video insert below starting at 14:56 minutes. What Bach fails to point out, however, is that in the very video where I showed the image comparison, I took pains to acknowledge that image comparisons are misleading -for exactly the reasons he points out -and cannot be relied upon. This image sends a clear message: if we squint a little, then a well-chosen cutout of a false colored image of a golgi stained pyramidal neuron will look like a red down feather, and a well-chosen cutout of a differently false colored galaxy cluster also looks like a purple down feather, and therefore it is extremely likely that the universe is a giant brain.Īnyone going by this alone will likely conclude that I am not only wrong, but also stupid and dishonest. Sarcastically, he implies even that the comparison was deliberately meant to mislead: He then zooms out in an attempt to show that the comparison was misleading: at a larger scale, he claims, the image shows that the universe looks nothing like a brain, but like foam rubber instead. Bach begins by showing the image comparison I originally used in my videos.

Be it as it may, here is my reply.īach's criticisms are straw-men every single one of them. I am somewhat surprised that he chose to make his criticisms public now, whilst ignoring the many clarifications I sent him by email back then. In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that Bach and I have engaged, only a few months ago, in an extensive email exchange discussing precisely the points he brought up in his blog post. In this essay, I rebut Bach's criticisms. Bach zooms in particularly on this image comparison to criticize my thesis. In the videos, I have also used an image comparison showing the similarity between the structure of the cosmos and that of biological nervous systems. I've made this suggestion in a recent paper and two videos ( video 1, video 2). MIT Research Scientist Joscha Bach has written a blog post criticizing my suggestion that the universe as a whole is, in a sense, akin to a cosmic nervous system.

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