Repeat after me ten times: “Whether or not the laws of the universe are reductionist has no bearing on how I assign meaning to events and objects.”
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"The mind is nothing but the brain, it's not a real thing on its own, just a useful abstraction we use to talk about the real material thing which is the brain"
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If you are trying to change someone’s thoughts through brain surgery, this is the useful viewpoint to take. For most other purposes, treating the mind as an object in and of itself is the useful viewpoint. Regardless, the mind arises entirely from atoms.
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