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Unless you believe in some kind of transcendental mind/soul, experiences such as color can't be anything other than physical processes in the brain (and/or the
by tsimionescu 3y ago
Unless you believe in some kind of transcendental mind/soul, experiences such as color can't be anything other than physical processes in the brain (and/or the rest of the body).
The fact that we can't identify them with our current level of understanding of the workings of the brain is not very surprising - it is an extremely complex organ and our tools for understanding organs are very primitive in the grand scheme of things.
- calamari4065 3y agoNot transcendental, no. But consciousness isn't just the physical and chemical reactions in your brain. It's more than the sum of its parts. The mind is a level of abstraction up from the brain. The mind is what the brain does, not necessarily what it is. Consciousness of course relies on discrete physical reactions in the brain, but in the way that software relies on the discrete transistors in a CPU. Consciousness is the emergent behavior of the system. It exists more on an informational level than physical, even if it is a physical process.