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Pretty much this. Your "consciousness" is nothing but neural activity in your own brain. By definition, it cannot appear anywhere else but your brain.
by prvnsmpth 6y ago
Pretty much this. Your "consciousness" is nothing but neural activity in your own brain. By definition, it cannot appear anywhere else but your brain.
- loopz 6y agoReductionism is by definition less than a full perspective on life, humanism and depth of possibilities.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoThat is speculation. We have absolutely no idea how consciousness is produced from electrical and chemical signalling between a large ball of fats. We know that it is (because we perceive our own), but we can't map from one thing to another. If consciousness is merely neural activity in a brain, then why can't we simulate really simple brains?
- PeterisP 6y agoBecause really simple brains don't have consciousness, they aren't sufficiently powerful enough to have the "mental machinery" needed for consciousness. We know that brains can implement things like theory of mind, self-awareness and abstract concepts; these particular things don't require a human mind but they do appear only in animal brains above some level of complexity, and don't appear in brains so simple that we'd have the power to simulate them in 2020.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoWe don't know that. How would we ever observe such a thing? Like the core problem of consciousness is that we experience it, but have no way of identifying it otherwise.