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by nitrogen 3831 days ago
I zoomed in on this comment to tap the upvote button, and the voting buttons disappeared. So hopefully it wasn't a downvote.

To respond to your comment, it seems that brain damage, psychoactive drugs, and transcranial magnetic stimulation are all evidence that, even if a "consciousness" can't be split in two (contradicted by your reference), parts of it can be removed or altered by altering matter, so it's still most likely a simple physical process.