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How is this not solipsism?Think of our consciousness as a ladder of Involution and Evolution, the route through which the formless Spirit became Matter and also the path that the soul rises or deepens in spirit.
How do you see it as solipsism?How is this not solipsism?
I don't understand your question.Why would a person chooses to think that?
Yes. My neurons are so clever.Did molecules think all this up?
Because of cognitive dissonance, perhaps?Why would a person chooses to think that?
We call that "demon possession."What happens if somebody else's ghost starts pushing the molecules in your brain?
Lets say we take your brain and blend it into a smoothie.I think with my brain. My brain is made of molecules. Therefore, molecules, when arranged in a certain way, can think.
But how can that be? After all, you are alive, and you feel what it is to be alive. You are experiencing conscious awareness. How can this awareness be nothing more than the result of molecules and elementary physical particles?
Your conscious awareness might seem to you to be something immaterial that is telling the molecules of your body what to do. And yet, as I wrote at Is There Life after Death, there is abundant evidence that the physical brain is indeed the thing that thinks. There is no soul inside running the show. The brain is in control.
Your brain does the thinking. And it creates the appearance that there is a person in charge controlling everything. Rather, what you have is a mass of neurons acting in parallel. But within that mass of neurons, some ideas rise to attention and drive the body. They create the story that the attention is in charge, but it is only there for the ride. The many neurons acting in parallel are in charge. I discuss this at How Can Molecules Think?
How do you know this?Without the soul, any thinking would be like an AI robot or computer. ...
I think this is likely to be generally like what is actually happening (that is, generally mostly correct).At my website I use the diagram below to illustrate how this could happen.
This illustrates what we all observe. We have a stream of thoughts that somehow come to our attention, and we really don't know where they come from or which thought will be next. They just present themselves to our attention. And I think we all observe that this is happening, regardless of whether the ultimate cause is neurons acting in parallel, or from within a soul. Either way, the root cause of our next thought somehow causes our next thought, and our consciousness really does not have control of what that will be.
Let's not.Lets say we take your brain and blend it into a smoothie.
OK. We can use my brain for the thought experiment. Lets stipulate that it currently "thinks".Let's not.
Lets say we take your brain and blend it into a smoothie.
No one would be surprised that this "brain" cant think anymore*. Why is that? Whats the fundamental difference?
Why is it that, when molecules in a brain turn into a slushy, thinking stops?Molecules don't "think". They do compose neurons which transmit electrical signals from synapse to synapse. The cumulative of these signals might be called thought.
It's basic physics.Why is it that, when molecules in a brain turn into a slushy, thinking stops?
Slushies lack the sophisticated architecture of neurons. All organization is lost.Why is it that, when molecules in a brain turn into a slushy, thinking stops?
Only brains got squished in this episode, not souls. But somehow, when the brain is squished, thoughts are hindered.It's basic physics.
Right answer!Slushies lack the sophisticated architecture of neurons. All organization is lost.
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