175
Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe?
(www.scientificamerican.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
175 points (84.9% liked)
Asklemmy
43905 readers
1780 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Conciousness is just an emergent property of the multiple parts of the brain trying to interpret and respond to its surroundings.
Edit: I stand by what I said, but you all don't need to be so mean and vile about it....
Wow. I'm glad you figured that out. I thought it was going to be so much more difficult.
It's ok if you disagree! What do you think it is?
First, I appreciate your calm response in the context of my sarcasm. It's not what I'm used to on the Internet, and it's refreshing.
My simplest answer is that I don't know. Neuroscience has made a lot of progress in the last several decades, but I'm unaware of any credible researchers claiming to have a unified theory of consciousness yet. We probably still have a long way to go, assuming it's even possible to know.