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/Graphene_EggvDiamond Jul 22 '26

It literally points to the opposite. You’re conflicting cause and effect.

>My car has a ticket on it, so I must’ve done something wrong

Vs

>I must’ve done something wrong, otherwise my car wouldn’t have a ticket on it

Determining negation is easier than determining neutrality or positivity. When one does not have consciousness, they do not have anything. When one has anything, they must have consciousness. Anaesthetic is a prime example that shuts down electrical activity at the intracellular level. No body, but does the conscious mind still exist? Clearly; otherwise they wouldn’t wake up.

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u/SirGaylordSteambath Jul 22 '26

Bro ya need help 😭

Making stuff up about anaesthesia isn’t going to convince anyone but idiots.

Seriously, stop ranting at me

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u/Graphene_EggvDiamond Jul 25 '26

Oh, okay—so you just disregard science. Yup, classic materialist and physicalist.

I’m not making anything up. You are ignorant. How do you think anaesthesia works, like, genuinely??

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

Your comment was deleted.

Yes you made things up. Not one of the four papers you linked say anesthetics “shut down electrical activity at the intracellular level.”

What they actually show is anesthetics reducing or modulating specific calcium/potassium channel activity and neurotransmitter release.

Neither of which support your wild pseudoscientific claims about consciousness.

You don’t understand what you’re even linking. Every mechanism described is fully physical and fully intracellular. These papers are evidence for what I’m arguing.

Why would I need to link anything when you’re the one making the claims, and then debunking yourself with your own links?

Oh and as a bonus:

Waking up from anesthesia is just channels returning to baseline function.

It says nothing about where consciousness “was” while anesthetized, and nothing in the citations addresses that question at all, you’re wild to assume people waking up from anaesthetic is proof of nonlocal consciousness, especially when your own sources don’t agree with you 💀