AM I JUST MY BRAIN By Sharon Dirckx

[@rk3343]

Your distinction between science and philosophy is very helpful. I also appreciate your overarching insight that every perspective is necessarily limited. Thank you for the clarity and charity of your presentation.

[@marcheathrow8930]

Interesting,thank you.

[@patrickholt2270]

I think a key issue is agency. It's not just that we are able to notice ourselves observing, and think about ourselves thinking and feeling, that we are conscious of ourselves experiencing. We also do things, and make decisions, and choose to think. There is will at work. This is one of the reasons that an algorithm which can mimic intelligent conversation is not a proof that the software (or the hardware) in a computer has consciousness. It has no independent agency, it has been written by humans to carry out a function. Consciousness is also proven by agency, by the fact that the human subject does things as a consequence, or in relation to his or her conscious experience, thoughts and feelings. As C.S. Lewis discussed in_Miracles,_ the only proof we have of mind and thoughts is the actions that the human in question then performs which record the thought or manifest the decision. Mind and consciousness, he argued, are in effect supernatural and metaphysical, because they are unobservable.

[@rareword]

"AM I JUST MY BRAIN?" That very sentence shows that you are not your brain. What is yours is not you.

[@silberlinie]

What a misunderstanding. You are not just your brain. You are not even a part of your brain. You are merely consciousness imagining the whole universe.

[@bsure4]

not if you have a bunch of $

[@Anne_Onymous]

It's your brain that makes you, "you". I can get a heart transplant and still be me. If able to be kept alive using science, I could technically have my entire body amputated and still be me. But the second your brain isn't there, neither are you. And if your brain gets altered, so does who you are. As a traumatic brain injury survivor; I'd know 😉

[@DigitalGnosis]

Ah damn this channel used to post 🔥 scholarly stuff, but her stuff is bottom of the barrel apologetics