[user249]

> I’m increasingly aware that it’s nothing magical

It's completely magical to me that I'm now aware that you think you awareness is nothing magical

> The mind is like a calculating device

How does that explain your self-awareness?

[JKCalhoun]

What's special about self-awareness? Could it be a trick of the brain?

It's like the story of Jimi Hendrix dropping acid and playing amazingly well. Or, rather Jimi under the influence thought so — until he heard the recordings.

[user249]

> Could it be a trick of the brain?

A "magic" trick perhaps? One that can't be explained by anything we currently know about physics? The materialist point of view is becoming increasingly incoherent and I think that's what angers many of them.

[throw74775]

If it’s a trick of the brain, who is being tricked?

[melagonster]

maybe our brains work like big matrix, but we do know yet. before someone resolving this problem, I hate people proclaim brain just another chatGPT.