The human brain is under a delusion that it is a mind

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Agree or disagree: the mind is not "real."

It's as real as any other attribute: "Hot" isn't a real thing either, but you'll still get burned if you touch a fire.

A mind is the delusion the brain has that it exists somewhere that is not purely physical.

I don't know about you, but my mind doesn't come with this impression of occupying any form of space, it just is.

We are all sacks of meat, with no more inherent value than a side of bacon or a beef patty on a hamburger.

Our bodies are just meat, but our active brains produce our consciousness, which I would think is at least a little extra value.

All we have to do to change a mind is pump the brain up with the proper chemicals and neurological impulses.

Even personality can be changed with the right drugs and electrical inputs.

So "we" (our minds) don't exist.

That's funny, I didn't realize that "mutable" and "nonexistent" were synonyms.

Do you realize how stupid it is to say that? Your freaking hair can be changed with chemicals, does that mean your hair doesn't exist? Or does it just mean that it's changeable? You're bootstrapping on something to the definition of changeable that isn't present there: things can exist without being completely static. So what if you can change a mind with chemicals?

I know it's scary to you, that something about you might just be real without also being magic, but you need to do some thinking before you spout this shit off again.

Our emotions aren't real.

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

Nothing is real, other than the material world.

And since our experience of the material world is processed through a "mind" that is a delusion, we can't even be sure of that.

I don't actually care if you want to be a solipsist, but don't try to drag the rest of us down with you.