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42 sats \ 5 replies \ @PlebeiusG 27 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: What's a mystery humanity can solve, but choses not to? Ask_SN
What is most likely is that our consciousness is an emergent property of neural computation and when you die the lights essentially go out.
I don’t want that to be true, but given the facts that seems most reasonable. No amount of wishful thinking can change reality.
There could be an afterlife though. Unlikely, but who knows?
Could you expand on "consciousness is an emergent property of neural computation and when you die the lights essentially go out" ?
Interesting.
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Like the surface tension of water being an emergent property of hydrogen bonding. The polar water molecules are like tiny magnets which link up. Zoom out trillions of trillions of molecules and you can see how water clings and acts strange, sometimes defying gravity.
If consciousness is really the result of unimaginably complex processing by thousands of layers of neural networks - then if that network breaks “you” vanish. Imagine going under anesthesia. If you had a soul, then why do you lose consciousness? Do the drugs affect your soul? No, they affect your reticular activation in your midbrain. We know how to stop someone being conscious by our technical understanding of the brain via science. When you die, your brain dies and your experiences vanish with it. There’s no brain to experience anymore. There’s no you.
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Solid, makes sense.
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Personally, I think if the facts you've seen only point you to this belief, the. you havent looked hard enough and/or with an open mind, but that I just my opinion.
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Was a Christian for 25 years. I did all the studying. It’s easy to assume someone you disagree with is wrong. I do it all the time
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