Clearing up some misconceptions people have of the current state of Neuroscience regarding human consciousness.
THEY ARE LOST (respectfully). Overall, neuroscience is light years from having any collective agreement on what it is, unless there is some random miraculous discovery sometime soon. Collectively, neuroscience has NO CLUE what the matter of consciousness is, where it is sourced from or WHY it even just randomly appears to begin with. It’s all philosophy and abstract rationale right now. Various theories that fight for first place with no one staying on top of the mountain very long. I’ve seen countless individuals lack comprehension of what science understands of this mystery so let me break it down below.
1. where it’s sourced from is not the same as explaining where it is housed in.
2. The consciousness is bound by the physical brain, no one argues this. If I lose a part of my brain of course that effects the consciousness, apart from this being blatantly obvious, science has proven through peer review that the consciousness is bound by the brain.
3. There is no collective answer in the slightest of anything of consciousness regarding its material, where it comes from or why it even randomly pops up from Neurons as opposed to other material. For example, why does consciousness appear only in a physical brain and not a piece of wood? Or a lung? As ridiculous as this sounds, it’s a valid mystery which is explained below.
4. The explanatory Gap is a well-known issue in the Philosophical world that science agrees with. This is the “mystery” of how a physical material gives rise to abstract “feeling” aka consciousness. There is a reason why this is a monumental debate, because it is completely unknown how this occurs. like…COMPLETELY unknown. it’s all theories and logic. NO EVIDENCE. There is no evidence, why? Because we don’t KNOW THE MATERIAL of consciousness and we would need to know it to some degree before knowing if it’s being sourced entirely from a physical neuron and not using the brain as a host. People use the “evidence” of how science knows what parts of the physical brain the consciousness is attached to and assume this is also explaining the source of consciousness which respectfully, is a causation fallacy. Simply saying we know that science confirms that the physical brain BOUNDS the consciousness is NOT giving a sprinkle of evidence that it is SOURCED from there. SOURCED means the neurons are producing the consciousness entirely themselves and we simply don’t know this until we actually understand the “Explanatory Gap.”
For anyone to shut the door on other realities is pure blind faith. I’ve read peer review papers that from the start are biased towards other realities…it stiff-arms the idea from the start. If there were other realities involved in this reality, then imagine closing the door to it and forcing a materialist study. This is called a waste of time.
Science needs to always keep their minds open and comprehend that we don’t know as much as we think we do, so keeping the door open to other realities is necessary at all times.
-Jarom
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