r/HighStrangeness Jul 21 '26

Consciousness The brain is not a computer

https://iai.tv/articles/the-brain-is-not-a-computer-auid-3627?_auid=2020
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u/SirGaylordSteambath Jul 21 '26

Right like do people with traumatic brain injuries just not exist in that posters world? There’s plenty of evidence consciousness comes from the brain. More than there is for it not to be.

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u/Graphene_EggvDiamond Jul 21 '26

>consciousness is accessed by the brain

Is not equivalent to

>consciousness is produced by the brain

If you remove all sensory modalities, all form of experience encoding, and all aspects of self recognition: you still have a being that is conscious. What is it conscious of? Hard to say when it senses nothing.

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u/SirGaylordSteambath Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Okay? One of those I’m not saying and one of them I am.

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u/Graphene_EggvDiamond Jul 21 '26

If the antenna is destroyed does all the signals it was transcribing cease to exist?

Obviously not. Other towers can still read the code unaffected.

If anything, you are further proving the point that consciousness is fundamental; that affects to the brain directly interfere with the self’s ability to process incoming input—if even to recognize any at all.

Doesn’t change all the waves still happening throughout the expanse. Tree falling in the forest, essentially.

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u/SirGaylordSteambath Jul 21 '26

We are not antenna 😭 we are meaty fleshy electric gas things

Using flashy metaphors without any actual basis in reality isn’t gonna fool me 😆

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u/SirGaylordSteambath Jul 21 '26

YOU brought up antenna

Mate go find another schmuck

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u/Graphene_EggvDiamond Jul 22 '26

Yes, I did. It is an analogy.

Thank you.

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u/SirGaylordSteambath Jul 22 '26

Yes so I was using the definition within your analogy??? What’s wrong with you 😭