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by colechristensen 1406 days ago
What I think is demonstrated is that you can cut a conscious brain in half in the right way to result in two separate consciousness entities.

In the same way that you could cut a small piece of a person’s brain out and the larger remaining piece is still conscious, it would follow that there is no single point in the brain where you could divide it in half and say this half has the consciousness the other one does not. Consciousness must then be distributed amongst a certain portion of brain matter and can be cut and still exist separately in both cut pieces.

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Follow that thought process down the rabbit hole and you arrive, inexorably, at panpsychism.