"Understand neuroscience and you can't believe humans are conscious" — a reductionist hot take
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-21
A viral reductionist take argues that once you truly understand the human nervous system, it's impossible to genuinely believe humans are conscious — the brain is just sodium-potassium ion exchanges and diffusing neurotransmitters, action potentials and synaptic vesicle fusion. Such arguments are frequently echoed in AI debates about whether machines can be conscious.
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