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Holy shit Mickey, what did you do to Pluto!?
Brains are electro-chemical btw, not just chemical
There’s a lot of assumptions in saying it’s just meaningless chemicals
- That chemicals are meaningless and lacking intriniic value. Seen from the outside they may appear that way, but evidently from the inside it seems quite different.
- “We” are not some other unseen brain behavior (not a crazy idea since we’ve never seen consciousness working in the brain)
- We are within the brain
- The brain exists at all
- Any knowledge exists at all (dubious as Mickey points out)
Perish like a dog it is then. There is no tearing down reality without you inside of it.
The decision that your brain’s decisions are due to chemical reactions, which itself would be due to chemicals reactions, is self-referential but not circular reasoning.
Those old cartoons really didn’t hold back, huh?
Obviously, Donald will do whatever the chemicals make him do.
I still think Death said it better in Hogfather.