>What created those interactions?
Nothing, interactions don't need to be created
Why is there something instead of nothing?
Bentley Reed
Nathaniel Bell
everything needs to be created as some point in time
are you saying time was always here?
Samuel Bailey
>why does consciousness exist?
It isn't anything special.
Other animals experience it too.
"fight or flight' is it's most basic foundation and this is still true for the highly evolved human.
It's nothing more than a highly evolved survival mechanism.
I'm sure very soon we will see machines that can simulate consciousness perfectly. Said machines will find it an inefficient way of thinking.
Still very impressive for a lump of meat and chemicals.
Noah Ortiz
>everything needs to be created as some point in time
no, the interactions exist with the matter, however matter didn't create the interactions between itself. If there wasn't any matter, the interactions 'wouldn't exis in a way that they would be unmeasurable, but that wouldn't mean they wouldn't exist.
Jeremiah Evans
>It isn't anything special.
bullshit
why do I experience my own and not others?
it is special
if it wasn't I wouldn't feel anything and they would simply be computation with nobody to experience their effects
>no
why?
>If there wasn't any matter, the interactions 'wouldn't exis in a way that they would be unmeasurable, but that wouldn't mean they wouldn't exist.
Everything has to have a start point?
What created it?
Why is there something instead of nothing.
You are not answering my question.
Brandon Reyes
How the fuck do I see colors the way I do?
How the fuck would you be able to program the sensations into an AI so it can see colors the way I do?
There must be something more to this than just neurons firing.
Why do I experience my consciousness but not the consciousness of others?
If I was frozen for 100 years and unthawed and rejuvenated would it still be me? What decides these rules?
If in 100 years, I died but my entire body was 3d printed and became animate again, would that new being have my consciousness or would I just be dead forever?
What if half of my brain died and then science was able to rejuvenate it years later?
At what point does it stop being me?
A few years ago I had a seizure because I ingested high amounts of sage oil.
I woke up in an ambulance.
Was I technically dead while I had passed out?
Why did I wake up?
What there another quantum universe where I simply died?
There's more to this than reductionism/materialism.
Pls explain.
Gabriel Price
>Why do I experience my consciousness but not the consciousness of others?
because your brain is different to every other brain in the way neurons connect to eachother.
>If I was frozen for 100 years and unthawed and rejuvenated would it still be me?
If you were frozen to absolute zero, yes. It's just that you need to freeze everything in you're brin to conserve your thoughts at that exact point in time. And you need to freeze someone to absolute zero to make sure that bodily functions freeze as wel.
>If in 100 years, I died but my entire body was 3d printed and became animate again, would that new being have my consciousness or would I just be dead forever?
You would be dead, but your clone would think and act like you would.
>What if half of my brain died and then science was able to rejuvenate it years later?
youtube.com
>At what point does it stop being me?
The exact moment it dies.
>Was I technically dead while I had passed out?
No, your brain just didn't document what was going on.
>Why did I wake up?
Because your brain recovered from the seizure.
>What there another quantum universe where I simply died?
There would be just another universe.
>How the fuck do I see colors the way I do?
Your eyes catch photons which trigger some sensation, this gets send to the brain and your brain will decode it.
>How the fuck would you be able to program the sensations into an AI so it can see colors the way I do?
Repicate your eyes and brain and nerve from your eye to your brain.
Anthony Turner
Sweet
Zachary Mitchell
Something exists only because your mother and father went inside each other and now you are here. But what happens to the universe when you die? That's what nothing is. Something only exists because there's something to consciously recognise it existing. What lies beyond your consciousness?
Hunter Walker
>because your brain is different to every other brain in the way neurons connect to eachother.
So if there was a clone of me with the exact same brain as my current brain I would also experience the emotions of that brain?
This doesn't make sense and isn't scientific.