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by famouswaffles 849 days ago
Memory and thinking processes are reactions and synapses firing in the brain.

It's not "just" in the sense that there's a lot of emergence and complexity when these things all work together but it is "just" in the sense that these are all physical unmagical processes.

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My point was that the original comment is a low-level view with missing details that gives little insight on the complexity of the phenomenon, not a support for dualism. It's all brain tissues and the information they encode.

I think we agree and it was fun to write this out.