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Originally Posted by braindamage351
, scientists HAVE mostly figured out how the brain works.
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I'll need some evidence of that
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Originally Posted by braindamage351
The only parts of the body that you were born with that are left over are probably the nervous system and the brain. The rest of your used materials are gone.
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Brain cells are always bieng lost, drinking kills hundreds of em in one fell swoop . It is unique in many ways but it is still cell based like our other organs
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Originally Posted by braindamage351
Emotion and consciousness are simply byproducts of the intelligence humans needed to fill their niche.
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They are also two very different things, emotion can easily be seen as a reaction to instincts - consiouseness is something that has not satisfactorally explained by scientists. I could create a highly complex machine designed to react to various different stimuli in a multitude of different ways aimed at preserving a set of goals, upon observation it may seem intelligent but it would not be consious no matter how complex it was.
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Originally Posted by braindamage351
Free will is an illusion. Everything happens for a reason, right? If I throw a ball I naturally expect it to follow it's course until the end right? It wont suddenly turn around, grow wings, or explode? Everything is cause and effect. Everything in the universe follows an exact path. The processes in your brain occur in an orderly fashion. There is only one possible way for them to behave.
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This is an argument against free will, not consiousness