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We May Be Surrounded by Trillions of Conscious Beings, Research Suggests—And They Aren’t Human (www.popularmechanics.com)
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[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Lots of materialist reductionism in this thread. Funny that you guys consider yourselves super “scientifically minded” but your beliefs are purely faith-based and contradict what most actual researchers on the field think. You’ll be very hard pressed to find a scientist studying consciousness that believes it’s purely a mechanistic and chemical process fully localized on the brain.