Comment by JumpCrisscross
5 days ago
> surgeons and researchers have shown that electrical stimulation of certain brain regions, can induce "perception" during procedures
I can carefully drop liquid reactants on a storage medium and induce nontrivial and reproducible changes in any computer reading it. That doesn't tell me how digital storage works, it just says I'm proximate to the process.
Indeed, that's why I said it wasn't conclusive proof of anything. But it also seems like a bit of wishful thinking, that it isn't more than proximate. There seems to be a strong psychological need for people to feel like more than their biology. We have centuries of faith and myth that put us as central characters, and heaven-bound spirits.