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> W.B. Yeats describes mankind's fleshly predicament as a soul fastened to a dying animal.

This is an old, tired, dualist judeo-christian view. And it's totally false; there isn't any thing called "soul" that could be separated from the body. It's part of it, a secretion of sort of the whole brain and body.

Even a real brain kept in a bottle wouldn't properly behave like a real human, IMO. This is all quite ridiculous, really.




Even a real brain kept in a bottle wouldn't properly behave like a real human

I'm curious as to how you support this statement?


Endocrine system, oxygen control, proprioception, and sensory deprivation come to mind as important factors that make us human.


For one, it wouldn't have an endocrine system.


Do Futurama episodes count as references?


I think that taking zoloft is what helped me to realise, deep down, that I really am a simulation running on a meat substrate.




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