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Youre reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
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Youre reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
Maybe this belongs in Religion and Ethics? What else would it be the product of, if not chemistry?Youre reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
Maybe this belongs in Religion and Ethics? What else would it be the product of, if not chemistry?Youre reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
"I think, therefore, I am" And at the moment I think Frank has gotten a hold of some very powerful and potentially stepped on weed.
And also knows it is the same....So a carbon atom knows that it's different from other carbon atoms?
Maybe this belongs in Religion and Ethics? What else would it be the product of, if not chemistry?Youre reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
So a carbon atom knows that it's different from other carbon atoms?
So a computer, which uses energy and stores data, is self aware?Maybe this belongs in Religion and Ethics? What else would it be the product of, if not chemistry?Youre reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
So a carbon atom knows that it's different from other carbon atoms?
No, that is not what it means at all. But, to put it in perspective, gold, granite, oxygen, water, and a turd are all made of atoms & molecules. Are they the same? The parts of our brain that use energy to store data are made of atoms & molecules. Batteries are too. But having those molecules does not make a battery.
Electrical impulses firing between neurons.Youre reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
Electrical impulses firing between neurons.Youre reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
Smart phones don't have neurons.Electrical impulses firing between neurons.Youre reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
Really? So my smart phone might really be smart
Smart phones don't have neurons.Electrical impulses firing between neurons.Youre reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
Really? So my smart phone might really be smart
Does self awareness come from atoms and molecules?
we ate an apple from the tree of knowledge(of good and evil) = self awarenessYoure reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
So a carbon atom knows that it's different from other carbon atoms?
Anyone reading this is aware; it is not a question of belief. In fact, consciousness is the one and only thing about which there can be no question as to existing. We do not believe that we 'are'. Anything else may be belief, but the capacity to believe is from consciousness, the basis for all else. The perceptions that consciousness processes are totally subjective and interior phenomena. The stimulus of those perceptions can be doubted and debated. The consciousness at the core cannot.Youre reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
Incorrect. It was not knowledge that was the fruit, it was duality. It was the tree of the 'knowledge' of good and evil. This is a wonderful metaphor, and very in keeping with oriental thought/philosophy. The universe, that was one, was split in two. That error, that 'Manichaeism', keeps us in separation, interpreted understandably as sin.we ate an apple from the tree of knowledge = self awarenessYoure reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?
yes!!! I knew that!! I just cut the term short! and yes! a wonderful metaphor!Incorrect. It was not knowledge that was the fruit, it was duality. It was the tree of the 'knowledge' of good and evil. This is a wonderful metaphor, and very in keeping with oriental thought/philosophy. The universe, that was one, was split in two. That error, that 'Manichaeism', keeps us in separation, interpreted understandably as sin.we ate an apple from the tree of knowledge = self awarenessYoure reading this, so you believe you're self aware. Is that merely a by product of chemistry?