What are you? — Anirudh Sharma
If people didn't have such thick skulls, we would be able to hear each other's mental voice very clearly. — Bitter Crank
Neuroscience has been trying to work out the intricate mechanism of thinking, but we haven't quite grasped it, not to say that it won't be explained in the next few decades. — Anirudh Sharma
Another thing that pushes me towards thinking we are, indeed just a body is things like OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder), where one isn't in complete control of their thoughts, due to some difference in the structure of the brain. — Anirudh Sharma
I'm not sure these three items are mutually exclusive alternatives, at least the way you've framed them here.What are you? A body made up of cells that is somehow able to 'think' ?
A mind that creates the illusion of a body, and everything around it, which raises a lot of questions of course.
Or a body with a mind?
The third one seems the most compelling to most people, but is it true? — Anirudh Sharma
What is the scary thought here? That it may take more than a few decades to explain some things?Neuroscience has been trying to work out the intricate mechanism of thinking, but we haven't quite grasped it, not to say that it won't be explained in the next few decades.This to many, is a scary thought. — Anirudh Sharma
How does a delay in pending empirical knowledge imply anything about what sort of thing you are? I suppose it implies you are thing complex enough to require more than a few decades to sort out.It means that I am just a collection of cells, and nothing more, which means I am insignificant! — Anirudh Sharma
I admire your courage. Nevertheless, I hope you'll agree, there's nothing here to fear.This does not scare me though, because if we are a collection of cells, and nothing matters, then how does this matter? — Anirudh Sharma
Perhaps you anticipate that I see no problem here. For on the sort of account I favor, the mind of the animal is rooted in the body.Another thing that pushes me towards thinking we are, indeed just a body is things like OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder), where one isn't in complete control of their thoughts, due to some difference in the structure of the brain. — Anirudh Sharma
I suspect you are much more than that. (Or much little? :halo: ) — Frotunes
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