Quote Originally Posted by moeburn
oh fuck i thuoght too hard, i suddenly realised i am a collection of neurons processing input and output signals

i have acheived enlightenment

crap

now i feel like a ball of white matter

and grey matter

my mind is simply hormones, seratonin and dopamine and endorphine

i dont exist

i'm just a machine
The idea that you are a machine is both ignorant and repressive. Deep within the human experience is this "I" character that we assosiate ourselves with. Ignoring the "I" would put us on the level of animals, but it's not natural to ignore it as it's put into humanity and humanity alone. I concider my body a machine in all regards, but that doesn't mean that the "I" that I know as myself is a machine, as everything I experience and love and hate tells me otherwise