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| 3448 | Do new ideas increase the weight of the brain? |
| Full Idea: If someone gives you a piece of information, does your brain suddenly become heavier? | |||
| From: Adam Dance (works [2001]), quoted by PG - Db (ideas) | |||
| A reaction: A beautifully simple question, which is a reductio of the idea that information is simply a physical object. The question points to a functionalist account of brain activity. |