Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-221 days agoIf consciousness is being transmitted to our bodies it must be harmful to us which is why we are required to sleep.message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down131
arrow-up1-21arrow-down1message-squareIf consciousness is being transmitted to our bodies it must be harmful to us which is why we are required to sleep.Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-221 days agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squarelugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·21 days agoWhat does that even mean? Consciousness is somewhere in our nervous system. It’s not transmitted from some otherworldly place or something
minus-squareClinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down10·edit-221 days agoThats amazing! Tell me, where in the nervous system does it reside?!
minus-squarelugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·21 days agoI already did: somewhere. I guess it’s some kind of emergence, you know the saying “the whole is more than the sum of its parts”
minus-squareClinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·21 days agoThat’s a theory, no?
minus-squarepruwyben@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 days agoThe alternative is mind-body dualism, and it certainly hasn’t been proven one way or the other.
minus-squareClinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·edit-221 days agoI don’t have any particularly unique theory. Me, personally, don’t subscribe to any theory other then maybe, I am thinking, so I exist.
minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoOh you may think you’re thinking, but can you prove you’re not a Boltzmann brain?
minus-squareClinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·21 days agoI’m doing this thing called a thought experiment. It’s really fun. Try it sometime.
What does that even mean? Consciousness is somewhere in our nervous system. It’s not transmitted from some otherworldly place or something
Thats amazing! Tell me, where in the nervous system does it reside?!
I already did: somewhere. I guess it’s some kind of emergence, you know the saying “the whole is more than the sum of its parts”
That’s a theory, no?
And what’s your “theory”?
The alternative is mind-body dualism, and it certainly hasn’t been proven one way or the other.
I don’t have any particularly unique theory.
Me, personally, don’t subscribe to any theory other then maybe, I am thinking, so I exist.
Oh you may think you’re thinking, but can you prove you’re not a Boltzmann brain?
And what are you implying in the post?
I’m doing this thing called a thought experiment. It’s really fun. Try it sometime.