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this seems like one of those articles that’ll give me a small panic attack. if “everything you experience is just action potentials in the brain” sets one near
by vcavallo 7y ago
this seems like one of those articles that’ll give me a small panic attack.
if “everything you experience is just action potentials in the brain” sets one near to existential terror, should one avoid reading this article?
- joycian 7y agoDefinitely.
- monktastic1 7y agoIt's even worse than that. Even brains, as physical objects, don't exist. Only minds do, or something.
- vcavallo 7y agoThat's actually not as bad. At least it's cohesive. It's the sort of "substrate jumping" of reality that is incongruous and terrifying. I'm fine with only minds existing - as long as there are more than just mine. .....which I'm pretty sure is a tough valley to climb out of. these are just a bunch of stubs right now, but you can see these things come up for me a lot: https://blog.vinneycavallo.com/tags/existential-dread https://blog.vinneycavallo.com/tags/existential-dread :)