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Yes, if you take a dead persons brain and run current through it continuously so that it can direct a body and produce novel thoughts then that is equivalent to
by bbor 1y ago
Yes, if you take a dead persons brain and run current through it continuously so that it can direct a body and produce novel thoughts then that is equivalent to a living human being.
Your brain is ultimately just numbers represented in neuronal form. What's conscious, the neurons?
- pearlsontheroad 1y agoThis level of materialism is soul-crushing :)
- bbor 1y agoThanks :) I always take the opportunity to crush souls when I can, since they don't exist in Reality nor Actuality. FWIW I'm a hardcore idealist, but in the way it was originally posed, not in the quasi-mystical way the Hegelians corrupted it into.