[thirdwhrldPzz]

Humans have longed relied on metaphor and analogy to provide context. Chemistry is a contextualized generalization of certain physical phenomena.

Neurons are just temporal spatial events of various mathematical parameters; gradients and ranges of heat, light, etc.

Everything is some form of “how matter happened to coalesce relative to light during $arbitrary_date_time_range”

Or it’s all the specialized language of chemistry and biology.

Six to one, half dozen to another. Normalizing the descriptions isn’t proof of correctness, it’s a specific normalized set of glyphs to simplify communication.

[netizen-936824]

My issue simply stems from how people try to disconnect our conscious experiences from the physical phenomena that underlies it.

Perhaps its my own perception on how I read into statements that make these assertions, but humans have quite a long history of invoking magic "souls" and such to explain thought processes and behaviors. My insistence on referencing the underlying phenomena is an attempt to counter this.

[jaminal]

so well said.

there’s absolutely no reason, for example, as to why unitive consciousness as described in some Hindu philosophies would be in contradiction with our experience of cognition originating entirely within a chemical framework of understanding reality.