>>19
You are corrrect. That is indeed what would happen. Though, if the brain was just made and kept 'alive' and it were 'conscious' rather than subconsciously active, it would be a very very confused brain since it would lack pretty much all natural stimuli (senses). I would make the assumption that a brain in a such a situation would automicatically be and make itself unconscious as a natural defense mechanism much like the hallucinations of people close to death.
>>21
Shock or confusion. Unless it were rigged up to stimuli... Even then it would still have a high chance of being confused/shock unless it understood what was going on beforehand.
>>51
fundamental randomness?
random eh...
if you're walking down the street and meet a young lady and you chat with her is that a random meeting? You both decided to go down the street for a reason, you both had a compelling reason to talk, etc...
Point being the same goes for nature and everything else, while thing's may seem random it's just a very very complex and intricate set of nonrandom interactions that appear random. Randomness is a guise.
If I held up a deck of cards and said choose one randomly and you selected a card. Then you recreated the entire universe (not just known universe) up the point you made the decision to choose randomly, you would in fact choose the same card every single time you recreated that existance, because everything was in place for that randomness to happen the same way it happened before.