@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • edit-26 months agoIf consciousness is being transmitted to our bodies it must be harmful to us which is why we are required to sleep.message-square21fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-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-26 months agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-square@lugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink9•6 months agoWhat does that even mean? Consciousness is somewhere in our nervous system. It’s not transmitted from some otherworldly place or something
minus-square@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-26 months agoThats amazing! Tell me, where in the nervous system does it reside?!
minus-square@lugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink5•6 months 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-squarepruwybenlinkfedilink2•6 months agoThe alternative is mind-body dualism, and it certainly hasn’t been proven one way or the other.
minus-square@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilink2•edit-26 months 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-square@spittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•6 months agoOh you may think you’re thinking, but can you prove you’re not a Boltzmann brain?
minus-square@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilink1•6 months 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.