What do you believe causes consciousness
By consciousness I mean your identity, yourself, the observer, what causes you to have subjective experience, your qualia.
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CountScrofula · 41-45, M
Clearly it's tied to how our brains work. But how specifically? I have absolutely no idea. Can't even speculate.
Sinnerwithaheart · 56-60, F
I believe it is part our life experience, part out psyche and part our beliefs.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
The brain.
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basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@QuixoticSoul I dunno, I'm skeptical, because we still can't explain it or where it sits in the brain. His theory is interesting https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/why-a-genius-scientist-thinks-our-consciousness-originates-at-the-quantum-level
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@basilfawlty89 "Still" in this context is asking a lot. The brain is a fantastically complicated machine made out of a hundred billion simpler (but not simple) machines, a product of an iterative process over billions of years (iterative processes generate things that work, but are very difficult to comprehend from the outside). We're trying to reverse engineer it with no manual to go on and with only the simplest of tools.
I'm not surprised we haven't figured out how it works - I'm amazed at how much about it we [i]do[/i] know.
I think that at this stage, the quantum explanation is jumping the gun. It's interesting, and at least sort of testable, but seems far fetched and somewhat unnecessary to me.
I'm not surprised we haven't figured out how it works - I'm amazed at how much about it we [i]do[/i] know.
I think that at this stage, the quantum explanation is jumping the gun. It's interesting, and at least sort of testable, but seems far fetched and somewhat unnecessary to me.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@QuixoticSoul I can dig it. I like that we're exploring multiple theories and hypotheses at once instead of just restricting our research to one field.