but according to what measure is it more complex than another part of the brain?
It directs, integrates, and regulates many of the other parts of the brain, and causes them to work together in particular ways or suppresses their output.
It is responsible for the complexity of what we regard as human behavior. The losses when this part of the brain is damaged are horrifying. Sufficient damage, and it is questionable whether the resulting creature can be considered ‘human’ in any meaningful abstract sense. (The biological sense is met, of course. But concepts like ‘personhood’ no longer seem to apply.)
Right, it’s responsible for the complexity of what we regard as human behavior, but that doesn’t meant that part of the brain is more complex than other parts. Also, I doubt but do not know that it’s the only part that regulates or suppresses other parts.
It directs, integrates, and regulates many of the other parts of the brain, and causes them to work together in particular ways or suppresses their output.
It is responsible for the complexity of what we regard as human behavior. The losses when this part of the brain is damaged are horrifying. Sufficient damage, and it is questionable whether the resulting creature can be considered ‘human’ in any meaningful abstract sense. (The biological sense is met, of course. But concepts like ‘personhood’ no longer seem to apply.)
Right, it’s responsible for the complexity of what we regard as human behavior, but that doesn’t meant that part of the brain is more complex than other parts. Also, I doubt but do not know that it’s the only part that regulates or suppresses other parts.