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scotty79
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Aren't our brains just pretending that we have an idea of consciousness just because a bunch of people spewed a bunch of words in voiced and written form when we were young?
Aeolun
on Feb 13, 2022
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Well, to some extend we get to define what conciousness means for us, so obviously we’d mark ourselves as concious.
Concious is kind of defined as ‘whatever the human brain does’.
mensetmanusman
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If that were true, who would we be pretending for?
TheOtherHobbes
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