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>Magical thinking is believing a ball of meat can create something as profound as consciousness. Reducing the complexities of the brain to "a ball of meat" is
by vectorpush 11y ago
>Magical thinking is believing a ball of meat can create something as profound as consciousness.
Reducing the complexities of the brain to "a ball of meat" is absurd. That's like saying it's magical thinking to suggest that a fragment of silicon can predict the weather.
Further, there isn't any reason to believe that consciousness is any more profound or fundamentally distinct from any other physical phenomenon in the universe, especially because consciousness is a prerequisite to the consideration of its own nature; such reasoning is akin to thinking that the universe must have been carefully designed because it's so perfectly tuned to the temperament of complex life, when there's literally no other possibility if life actually exists to wonder about why it's here.
- ca98am79 11y agoI was responding to the "meat computer" comment. But if you don't believe consciousness is more profound than other things, I honestly think you are fooling yourself, and I think it is a mistake because it devalues it
- vectorpush 11y ago> if you don't believe consciousness is more profound than other things, I honestly think you are fooling yourself, and also limiting and reducing your own value Your reasoning just seems like an appeal to emotion. You might feel like consciousness is profound (a vague description without a clear meaning), but you haven't offered any reasoning as to why this is the case.
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