Talk:Penny/@comment-25555436-20150308201601/@comment-24891101-20150422183035

It does, Live.

If we assume, as I do generally, a purely naturalistic explanation, then there must be a physical process by which the soul exists. If we attribute this, as I and the anon do, to the existence of a neural net (in humans naturally occuring, in Penny engineered), then we must explain the mind, such as it is, of the Grimm. They react to their environment; therefore, if they are naturally occuring, then they must have some nervous system analogue. Since neural nets are naturally occuring, they are a logical choice for the brain of a Grimm.

We are then left to explain why the neural net generates a soul in humans, but not in Grimm. Therefore it is indeed a question of physics.

This is not to say that the Grimm indeed have neural nets, merely that it is a possibility which need be accounted for by this theory. I might venture so far to say that their architecture is not a neural net as predicted by this theory.