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Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world ·
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If consciousness is being transmitted to our bodies it must be harmful to us which is why we are required to sleep.

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If consciousness is being transmitted to our bodies it must be harmful to us which is why we are required to sleep.

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    What does that even mean? Consciousness is somewhere in our nervous system. It’s not transmitted from some otherworldly place or something

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      Check out the theory of a noosphere. I think that might be what OP could be referring to. There is a theory that this supposed layer of information is always interacting with us on a quantum level and ideas can just come from the universe itself, or something like that… I’ve read about it once a while back and just thought it was kind of a cool sci-fi concept.

      It’s also the basis for the plot in the Stalker games.

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      Thats amazing! Tell me, where in the nervous system does it reside?!

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        I already did: somewhere. I guess it’s some kind of emergence, you know the saying “the whole is more than the sum of its parts”

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          That’s a theory, no?

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            And what’s your “theory”?

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              The alternative is mind-body dualism, and it certainly hasn’t been proven one way or the other.

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              I don’t have any particularly unique theory.

              Me, personally, don’t subscribe to any theory other then maybe, I am thinking, so I exist.

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                Oh you may think you’re thinking, but can you prove you’re not a Boltzmann brain?

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                And what are you implying in the post?

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                  I’m doing this thing called a thought experiment. It’s really fun. Try it sometime.

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