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Dale Petersen

['Member']Joined: April 18, 2021 at 17:08Last active: April 19, 2021 at 10:471 discussions8 comments

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In: Why does the question of consciousness seem so obvious but remain "A great mystery"  — view comment
Honestly unsure how this detail is relevant, or consequential, but I'll answer. You don't have to remove the memories if hypothetically a human was cr...
April 18, 2021 at 20:45
In: Why does the question of consciousness seem so obvious but remain "A great mystery"  — view comment
You are not wrong but I was more pointing out the connection between our brain and the mind showing it to be the same thing by using variables. Like r...
April 18, 2021 at 20:25
In: Why does the question of consciousness seem so obvious but remain "A great mystery"  — view comment
I understand what you're talking about, but I disagree with what you're saying. If by destroying memory you mean removing all changes to the brain tha...
April 18, 2021 at 20:11
In: Why does the question of consciousness seem so obvious but remain "A great mystery"  — view comment
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April 18, 2021 at 20:10
In: Why does the question of consciousness seem so obvious but remain "A great mystery"  — view comment
When you remove all inputs to the human brain, there is nothing to be aware of and therefore not aware/conscious, just action potentials. What would i...
April 18, 2021 at 19:32
In: Why does the question of consciousness seem so obvious but remain "A great mystery"  — view comment
Hi Pantagruel, can you show exactly where this fallacy applies? If you expand "mind" to include the collective cooperation between individual organism...
April 18, 2021 at 19:02
In: Why does the question of consciousness seem so obvious but remain "A great mystery"  — view comment
Thanks for your response, To answer your first question, I'll ask you that question, what would your mind/consciousness be without these things? Even ...
April 18, 2021 at 18:37
In: Why does the question of consciousness seem so obvious but remain "A great mystery"  — view comment
Hi Jack, as I said above, "There is nothing un-materialistic about consciousness, just the remarkable emergent property of billions of years of evolut...
April 18, 2021 at 18:02
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