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0 pointsempath756y ago0 comments

Your neurons don’t understand who carol is either, they’re just automatically responding to stimulus.

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But am "I" - my consciousness, my understanding - nothing more than a collection of impulses traveling around a particular network of neurons?

We don't know.

I'd suggest that anyone who purports to give a definitive answer to that is in fact making a leap of faith - in one direction or another.

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0 pointsempath756y ago0 comments

Your neurons don’t understand who carol is either, they’re just automatically responding to stimulus.

jfk136y ago

But am "I" - my consciousness, my understanding - nothing more than a collection of impulses traveling around a particular network of neurons?

We don't know.

I'd suggest that anyone who purports to give a definitive answer to that is in fact making a leap of faith - in one direction or another.

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