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>We are only brains. If your brain gets squished, you don't really care because you'll cease to exist in this light cone. I agree with you. However, we both ha
by rickhanlonii 13y ago
>We are only brains. If your brain gets squished, you don't really care because you'll cease to exist in this light cone.
I agree with you. However, we both have to give serious consideration to the objection that our brains are a necessary but not sufficient condition of consciousness.
We do not know, as of yet, that our brains are not merely some sort of wireless router for some higher existential consciousness. I don't think it is, but intellectual integrity demands that it's seriously considered.
- eloff 13y agoA wireless router that evolved through a process of natural selection from simple, not conscious single-celled (and simpler) life-forms? That seems a bit far-fetched don't you think?
- rickhanlonii 13y agoI agree; that does seem far-fetched. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a legitimate objection that demands respectable consideration.