"Your post seem [sic] to indicate that you fall into the mind/brain trap".
No, it doesn't. Perhaps you think it indicates that, but you would be wrong. I learned about "the ghost in the machine" at school, 50 years ago - by now it's quite familiar.
It is very questionable indeed whether brains can usefully be said to "follow rules". Of course you can assert that, but it strains the facts. One of the most obvious (and distressing) facts about the human nervous system is that it's virtually impossible to describe it in terms of rules. That's because the underlying "hardware" (or wetware, or whatever you want to call the neurons, axons, dendrites, synapses, etc) isn't remotely like a Turing machine. It's massively, immensely parallel, and each neuron is internally more complex than any computer ever built - although its inputs and outputs may appear to be relatively simple. There is clearly something analogous to what we would call "design" going on, especially in the early stages when the nervous system is developing. But it's equally obvious that no one designed it - what order there is simply evolved.
"...my phone recognizes my driving pattern, notes where I park, reminds me of appointments, and so on".
Yes, but it had to be explicitly programmed to do every one of those tasks. That is comparable to the cells in the human visual cortex that automatically recognise, say, a striped pattern or a vertical line. Those "circuits" provide valuable low-level building blocks which help our brains to recognise far more complex, variable patterns. But I doubt whether it's possible, even in theory, to detect a set of neurons that performs the task of noticing when an online commenter is making statements beyond the scope of his knowledge - even though we often have that feeling.
"...I literally mean that statement is nonsensical".
Funny, it makes perfectly good sense to me. If you find it nonsensical, maybe you have not managed to understand what I was trying to convey. Try reading it again a few times, and think it over. The meaning may come to you.