cthrowaway2

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   by cthrowaway2 14y ago

   i didn't realize we were so intimately familiar with the source of human consciousness. i'd think, if our consciousness was conclusively just the sum of our synapses, we'd have stopped debating life after death by now. i'd be happy to read
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   by cthrowaway2 14y ago

   the post seems like a verbose attempt at "do what makes you happy". what precisely is being debated here?
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   by cthrowaway2 14y ago

   like everything, apply a cost and reward analysis. i was the first technical employee of a now well known, but still very much young and growing startup. i predict this credential will prove more beneficial than "software engineer, google"
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   by cthrowaway2 14y ago

   we are neurons and synapses? is it not perhaps the case that neurons and synapses are simply arbitrary inputs into our true selves? which, like any input, could be configured, removed, or entirely replaced.
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   by cthrowaway2 14y ago

   "At some point, they start attributing all interesting or creative thoughts they have to the use of drugs" . i have never met anyone like this. i've also never heard of someone taking it to this extreme. i'm inclined to call it a straw man
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   by cthrowaway2 14y ago

   that was a very abrasive introduction considering your gross misinterpretation of the post you were responding to. your idea, and the one you are replying to, are not mutually exclusive. reread it's thesis: "Psychedelics give an empirical e