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>>19360571
Better, but i began therapy and started a med, but I had to quit the med as it only made me more restless.

Also I kind of try to keep in the fore that this is just chemistry attacking me in my brain. The fear, the relief, all just some complex chem battles.

thanks for asking

>>19305046
But that's all our experiences are. Our personalities, emotions and beliefs are all tied to our physical forms. We're all just walking sacks of chemicals and meat, reacting and changing to better survive in the world around us. Post-trauma neuroplasticity is enough to prove that, to a certain extent. Sure, we can reduce those chemical reactions further and further down to where we talk about forces/string theory/etc. but that doesn't change the physicality of it.

>The problem, however, is that no evidence for consciousness exists in the physical world.
Everybody knows we don't know the source of consciousness yet, that's not a debate. He's jumping to a conclusion based on a premise he wants to be true. Going further, it seems to me that Sam Harris wants the answers we find in scientific research to actually give our lives deeper meaning and not be "you are just a collection of atoms interacting in a complex manner." Surely he realises that even if it turns out we are just a collection of atoms interacting in a complex manner, we can choose to give our lives meaning regardless? He wants scientific facts to justify his philosophies and I'm not sure if he would accept facts that don't.