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Originally Posted by HangFire
You are those chemical reactions in your brain, that is your conciousness and your existence. If it wasn't "you" being those chemical rections and making the decisions, then you'd be some sort of observer, helplessly experiencing that brain's whims.
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No, you would not be observer, because the observation itself is an action that requires such reactions to happen. The real question here is, what is consciousness. To me it's an emergent phenomenon.
MORPHEUS:
What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
... and he's technically right
On top of these chemical reactions between the synapses, what drives the brain is electric patterns. The chemical reactions happen only to allow the electric pulse to jump from one cell to another. The brain is the only human organ that can be said to be electronically coded. The signals the brain interprets are coded in frequency, intensity and duration. These signals are aperiodic bursts of pulses of certain lengths (I would rather say, whose frequency decreases more or less regularly). It can happen that several signals in resonance fry a cell itself, in this sense we are all "brain-damaged" by nature. This is what our uniqueness comes from, and what makes our consciousness, as an emergent phenomenon, differ from others although being sufficiently similar to feel the link of the species, being the sum of our hardcoded genetical program (our electronic diagram, if you want), and our inner transformations (the wires we cut).