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amenhotep on Sept 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses ...

The sophistry here is the unsupported framing of the two as mutually exclusive. What do you think "you", the entity that does or does not have free will, are, other than a system of internal chemical reactions? Are you a soulist?

Guthur on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

There is little evidence that consciousness comes from any particular processes at all.

It's as much conjecture to say it is just an artifact of matter as opposed to something metaphysical.

To say consciousness just appears from material complexity is actually quite absurd with little evidence.

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