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I think somebody asked the question in the last class of what counts as a response, and it brought to mind our larger conversation of what is going on if it is all just chemicals. I understand the concept of responses happening without a stimulus, but weren't the signals coming from the leech just electrical/chemical reactions, like a chicken spasming when its head is cut off? Then, when I really start thinking about it the whole thing comes back to Dickinson again and that if this experiment were done with a human we would not be able to distinguish the signals coming from the brain as anything but just signals. Even if there was no body to communicate them would inner thinking still be going on?