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Ghost2518 karma

Presumably lots of CO2.

Ghost256 karma

I don't get the "problem" of the mind body problem. The mind is the subjective manifestation of the brain. Obviously if you destroy the brain there is no mind.

It's like asking what is the relationship between the internet and all the connected servers. The internet is what we call the manifestation of those connections and interactions.

You can pose any number of such questions that seem deep but have no testable answer. Like, "what is love?" The answer is "strong feelings of affection". Someone could reply, "no not the definition, what is love?" It's not really a question that can be meaningfully answered.

Ghost253 karma

So your research demonstrates that exercise is good for your health, especially cardiovascular health? Isn't this one of the most well known, widely accepted health recommendations for decades?

I would imagine the problem isn't that people don't know exercise is healthy, it's that they don't want to do it.

Ghost252 karma

You've framed a question that seems like it could have an answer, but what would that even look like?

As an analogy: we understand how computers and software work. How do you answer the question, "how does matter subjectively generate the experience of playing Call of Duty?". Humans built computers and Call of Duty, so we understand pretty much every aspect of how that happens.

We could write down the state of every transistor in the CPU, GPU, and RAM, what data was sent to the screen for every pixel in each every clock cycle of a game. That would be extremely granular, but completely unintelligible.

So what kind of answer are you looking for? Again, you can phrase grammatically correct questions that don't have answers. What is the sound of one hand clapping? If you define clapping as two hands hitting each other in rapid succession, this question is illogical.

I literally don't understand what the question, "how [does] matter generates subjective conscious experiences?" means.