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Drummyralf@lemmy.world 1 month agoDoesn’t that depend on your view of consciousness and if you hold the view of naturalism?
I thought science is starting to find more and more that a 100% naturalistic worldview is hard to keep up.
I guess my initial question is almost more philosophical in nature and less deterministic.
huginn@feddit.it 1 month ago
I’m not positive I’m understanding your term naturalistic but no neuroscientist would say “we are just neurons”. Similarly no neuroscientist would deny that neurons are a fundamental part of consciousness and thought.
You have plenty of complex chemical processes interacting with your brain constantly - the neurons there aren’t all of who you are.
But without the neurons there: you aren’t anyone anymore. You cease to live. Destroying some of those neurons will change you fundamentally.
There’s no disputing this.
Drummyralf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I agree with you, and you worded what I was clumsily trying to say. Thank you:)
With naturalism I mean the philosphical idea that only natural laws and forces are present in this world. Or as an extension, the idea that here is only matter.