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Neuroscience

שו”תCategory: generalNeuroscience
asked 2 weeks ago

Hello.
How do we know that all our emotions are nothing more than chemical processes in the brain?
Before I directed the question here, I turned to Miki Bot, and the explanations that reject this possibility are classic examples – in my opinion – of the desired assumption. After all, we have no precise knowledge about the effect of chemical processes on the brain. Maybe it is precisely the subjective feeling of pain, happiness, sorrow, etc. that is caused by chemical actions on the brain? Do we have evidence that this is not the case?
(There is nothing between these questions and my personal opinion).


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מיכי Staff answered 2 weeks ago
I assume you mean to ask how we know they are not like that. I have written about this at length, so I will answer briefly here. A. Who said that emotions are not the result of chemical processes? What does that mean? And even if they are the results of chemical processes, the question is what creates these processes themselves (perhaps the mind?). B. Emotions are not brain processes. This is just a conceptual error with no connection whatsoever to neuroscience or science in general. At most you can say that emotions are created by brain processes, but not identify them with each other. C. This is not the requested assumption, but an assumption. Don’t you have any assumptions in life? If this is the starting point for me, then for me the burden of proof is on those who oppose it. If they haven’t raised the burden of proof, then I stand by my position. This is really not the requested assumption, at least not in the sense of a fallacy.

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