My guess is the brain turns out to be simpler than we expect and most of the magic is in the fabric of reality (various fields, etc)
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this registers to me as a very dangerous belief, i have like 'ahhh quarantine this' feelings around it
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dangerous bc it implies humans aren't fundamentally special?
Maybe evidence for not dangerous is humans tried to hold the belief "we aren't animals, animals and humans are fundamentally different" for most of our history but recently accepted it and it changed almost nothing
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oh no, i don't think humans are fundamentally special; i mean it's dangerous in that i think it's already very easy for people to project things about themselves into the world; being like 'it's not my brain, im just reading true energy' gives a lot of leeway for destruction
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oh no, i don't think humans are fundamentally special; i mean it's dangerous in that i think it's already very easy for people to project things about themselves into the world; being like 'it's not my brain, im just reading true energy' gives a lot of leeway for destruction
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Surprised to see that you have these feelings, this is exactly how the political extremes react to beliefs they don't like.
I really think what is saying is the next natural step of our understanding of consciousness - our previous framework hasn't worked at all
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We have two big problems in today's materialism:
1) We still have zero idea where consciousness comes from
2) We don't know what "breathes fire into the equations" of physics
Panpsychism and idealism both neatly solve these problems
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Strongly agree, literally everything is made up of the "fabric of reality" and yet brains are seemingly unique.
This registers to me as a proposition that is fundamentally almost impossible to test. How could we possibly hope to measure a field that only interacts with a specific kinds of cells that are in a specific state of consciousness? Only another brain could be the antenna.