Descartes favored the pineal gland as the seat of consciousness because it appears singular, but even the pineal gland is full of cells; there is no singular 'one thing' in biology at any scale
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“Descartes was looking he liked the pineal gland because there was just one of them but one of what if you look inside it's full of cell”
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