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Good question and I don't have an answer.For example animals have consciousness too.
Is selfhood only in the physical brain? The heart's nervous system contains around 40,000 neurons, the gut contains 500 million neurons,I should rather say "for biological life". Carbon has some advantages over silicon.
There was also a thought experiment in the OP video - if we will replace one natural neuron by a silicon one, one after another, until the whole brain is made of silicon, will we believe the person if he were saying "I am still here" the whole time? If not, where would be the limit?
I've heard somewhere that these neurons (added: brain neurons) are part of the little brain in the heart. From my Christian worldview, the bible sometimes talks about the heart as if it thinks or does more than pump blood.The heart's nervous system contains around 40,000 neurons
The same thought extends into other spiritual trajectories as well.I've heard somewhere that these neurons (added: brain neurons) are part of the little brain in the heart. From my Christian worldview, the bible sometimes talks about the heart as if it thinks or does more than pump blood.
We see this in Genesis 2 "4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,my challenge was to show something can have both a physical age, and an existential age.
Thus the earth could be 4.7 billion years old, but it has only been in existence since 4004 BC.
I'm trying to make a connection can you help me out.The same thought extends into other spiritual trajectories as well.
I direct you to the various mystics of the world religions. Those folks tend to explore consciousness through the lens of an inner experiencing of consciousness itself. One could look at like consciousness experiencing consciousness to see what they see from that perspective.I'm trying to make a connection can you help me out.
Brain has about 100 billion neurons.Is selfhood only in the physical brain? The heart's nervous system contains around 40,000 neurons, the gut contains 500 million neurons,
I have to quibble just a little bit. Or more likely I'm miss-understanding what you wrote. I'm aware that I experience consciousness differently than most here as I tend to take in the whole of existence as One, which can lead to miss-understandings on my part. The questions I ask in response to the above that I reference: Is a worm self aware? Or a micro-organism self aware? I don't believe so in either case, yet they both have a rudimentary type of consciousness. Or a plant whose leaves follow the sun. Is that a type of consciousness? My answer is Yes. Those example transcends the brain and even matter. But not at the level of self awareness.Consciousness itself is the central sense of self aware of all that other stuff. And it transcends the brain and matter.
Like a meta consciousness. Consciousness of consciousness as you mentioned earlier.Those example transcends the brain and even matter. But not at the level of self awareness.
A question for those working with the heart might look at it's pitch and ask: Where is the heart, Is it awake? Is it dull? Is it really present?I'm trying to make a connection can you help me out.
A question for those working with the heart might look at it's pitch and ask: Where is the heart, Is it awake? Is it dull? Is it really present?
If my physical heart needs an operation please give me the cardiologist. If its my spiritual heart, please give me Love.You want doctors that ignorant operating on your heart!?
If my physical heart needs an operation please give me the cardiologist. If its my spiritual heart, please give me Love.
Either way you are still dealing with scar tissue.If my physical heart needs an operation please give me the cardiologist. If its my spiritual heart, please give me Love.
It's been noted by those who work with the spiritual heart that a broken heart has a way of opening an otherwise closed heart.Either way you are still dealing with scar tissue.
It's been noted by those who work with the spiritual heart that a broken heart has a way of opening an otherwise closed heart.
The irony is one of the Bee Gees died during heart surgery when he was in his early 50's.Methinks you've been listening to the Bee Gees too long.
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