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There's one dialogue particular in it that's revolves around the ideas of your two's discussion: Ant Fugue

The fundamental idea being that from a physical point of view, there's nothing unique about neurons firing in a certain pattern.

A population of macroscopic organisms / actors in a computer could interact and produce the same patterns, given enough moving parts and the ability to reorganize itself in response to input.