MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoThe fact that we aren’t aware of every process in our body means our brains aren’t fully connected with our bodies.message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down147
arrow-up1-28arrow-down1message-squareThe fact that we aren’t aware of every process in our body means our brains aren’t fully connected with our bodies.MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareMariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down4·1 year agoSo “we” are not our brains
minus-squareBiNonBi@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoIf you want to see how weird it can get look at blightsight. Your consciousness can be blind but your body can still react to visual stimulus.
minus-squareDodecahedron December@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year ago“We” don’t exist, or rather “we” don’t know what makes us “us”, except for what we do know. Consciousness isn’t fully understood.
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoOnly if you think an iceberg is not an iceberg.
minus-squareSicktatties@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThis feels closer to the truth.
minus-squarebirdcat@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoExactly, tried to argue this point many times. You are not a brain with a body, you are a body with a brain!!!
So “we” are not our brains
If you want to see how weird it can get look at blightsight. Your consciousness can be blind but your body can still react to visual stimulus.
“We” don’t exist, or rather “we” don’t know what makes us “us”, except for what we do know. Consciousness isn’t fully understood.
Only if you think an iceberg is not an iceberg.
This feels closer to the truth.
Exactly, tried to argue this point many times. You are not a brain with a body, you are a body with a brain!!!