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The human brain is under a delusion that it is a mind
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RE: The human brain is under a delusion that it is a mind
(September 24, 2014 at 8:37 pm)Blackrook Wrote: All we have to do to change a mind is pump the brain up with the proper chemicals and neurological impulses.
Quote:Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts. Every waking moment—and even in our dreams—we struggle to direct the flow of sensation, emotion, and cognition toward states of consciousness that we value ... Drugs are another means toward this end...

~ Sam Harris


(September 24, 2014 at 8:37 pm)Blackrook Wrote: So "we" (our minds) don't exist.

Our emotions aren't real.

Everything we think, feel, love, hate isn't real.

Nothing is real, other than the material world.

You have a rather restricted sense of the meaning of 'real'. Processes are just as real as objects. If the mind is a delusional process which thinks itself an object, that does not make the process itself any less real. The properties of that process, emotions, thoughts, reasons, are still very much real.

I almost forgot. "So what?" You seem to be rushing headlong toward the fallacy of the undesirable consequence.
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RE: The human brain is under a delusion that it is a mind - by Angrboda - September 24, 2014 at 9:06 pm

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