So if every reaction, action, motivation, anything we do in our lives can be boiled down to just brain chemicals then what are things like thoughts and ideas, judgement and analysis, love and attachment?
So if every reaction, action, motivation...
Ryder Diaz
Ayden Long
Particular patterns of brain chemicals.
Cameron Sanchez
Why do we place importance in them then? If that's brain chemicals too then how did humanity get here and what should anybody's purpose to live be?
Luke Hill
>live to be
ftfy
Bentley Barnes
>raison d'être
spooky
Landon Garcia
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Aiden Flores
read literally the first lecture of varieties of religious experience
Caleb Ross
You're starting from a false premise. Neurotransmitters are important but they are not your thoughts or emotions. It's the network of neurons themselves which form your thoughts, memories, etc.
Chemical soup theory is old news, it posits that the oil runs the car with complete disregard for the engine.
Austin Wood
Spoiler: material rationalism is wrong.
Angel Edwards
This is an argument about your feelings, and not the nature of reality. Ultimately you have to come to terms with it in your way