Personally I think it’s silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience… Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.

I’ve been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism… Maybe I am just tripping idk

  • OgdenTO [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I can literally cut out your memories with a scalpel

    I think that might be SciFi - as far as I am aware nobody knows what a memory is, or where or how they’re stored. This is the thing, we all have ideas that the brain is this magical necessary thing for thinking, and yet noone knows what a thought even looks like or what is necessary for it

    • itsPina [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It would be a lot of cutting, as memories are actually encoding in various places across the brain. We do know a lot about how memories function, but that is actually besides my point… We definitely know memory is somewhere in the brain… not elsewhere. Its a physical thing.