Except it is as the very term *unconscious* aptly describes. Altering the brain chemistry affects consciousness.
Can we please not engage in obvious nonsense? This is always the same bs attempt to redefine what is and is not demonstrable in order to smuggle in unfalsifiable beliefs. The correct response is *rejection*, not adjustment because the methodology is not dogmatic. It’s empirical, derived from generations of trial and error. Softening the scientific method is not progress. It’s regression back into make-belief.
If you want to argue for a nonphysical component of consciousness you have to demonstrate that by exhausting the alternatives, not by trying to redefine the rules.
Mr_Vacant on
So is the consciousness in the room with us now?
FarGodHastur on
Typing with your keyboard doesn’t make you responsible for the words you post.
Pixelated_ on
We have never once proven that consciousness originates in our brains.
That’s just an unfounded idea that some people have.
spinozaschilidog on
People in the comments here are too quick to assume that neuroscience has consciousness all figured out. Even scientists working in the field would say this is still very much an open question.
The hard problem of consciousness still hasn’t been solved. The brain could do everything it needs to do without qualia, or a sense of a subjective self. And yet here we are.
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Except it is as the very term *unconscious* aptly describes. Altering the brain chemistry affects consciousness.
Can we please not engage in obvious nonsense? This is always the same bs attempt to redefine what is and is not demonstrable in order to smuggle in unfalsifiable beliefs. The correct response is *rejection*, not adjustment because the methodology is not dogmatic. It’s empirical, derived from generations of trial and error. Softening the scientific method is not progress. It’s regression back into make-belief.
If you want to argue for a nonphysical component of consciousness you have to demonstrate that by exhausting the alternatives, not by trying to redefine the rules.
So is the consciousness in the room with us now?
Typing with your keyboard doesn’t make you responsible for the words you post.
We have never once proven that consciousness originates in our brains.
That’s just an unfounded idea that some people have.
People in the comments here are too quick to assume that neuroscience has consciousness all figured out. Even scientists working in the field would say this is still very much an open question.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=what+is+consciousness&oq=what+is+con
The hard problem of consciousness still hasn’t been solved. The brain could do everything it needs to do without qualia, or a sense of a subjective self. And yet here we are.
Consciousness is stored in the balls.