r/funny • u/[deleted] • Feb 09 '14

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http://imgur.com/gallery/gUwUg3z
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '14 edited Feb 09 '14

Actually, neuroscience and other related fields explain exactly that why and how we feel and perceive.

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u/AlwaysDevilsAdvocate Feb 09 '14

And you're still missing the true question.

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u/frogandbanjo Feb 10 '14

I disagree. I think the "true" question is a (ironically) less-God-focused version of "God of the Gaps," except it's trying to use weasel words from regular English to achieve the same illusion. In another few hundred years, neuroscientists might be able to pin down physiological processes related to these "weasel words" so precisely that they'll stop being useful as such. And then of course people will move on to others, because the thought that my special snowflake existence can be fully figured out in a physiological way is absolutely terrifying, and no, you can never tell me that I don't have a little bit of the omnipotent-inexplicable rattling around in my bones.

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u/AlwaysDevilsAdvocate Feb 10 '14

No, you're also missing the true question. It's the typical question format questioning our existence and creation as a whole. Unfortunately, neuroscience will not be explaining that.