Week 4 - Philosophical Film Posting

Week 4 - Philosophical Film Posting

When we wake in the morning from the time that we go to bed, we think that we are in control of our body and what our body is doing. This film "A Glorious Piece of Meat" talks about the idea that the human consciousness is nothing more than the biological make up of our minds and nervous system (the network of neurons), I would have to disagree with this postulate, and since there is no proof on either side of the argument I have developed a few questions to help formulate ideas in the opposition. If the human consciousness is nothing more than a complex network of neurons why is it that one persons dreams and ambitions are different from another's? Why is it that siblings with generally the same biological make-up completely different? What reason would there be for the brain to create this guise of consciousness to fool us into thinking that we are more than we are?

In reality we are what we are, I believe that the brain creates this illusion of life to help us continue with our lives, and to help us accomplish our goals without the idea that we are only a biological machine and that we are nothing more than a biological machine. If you really think about it, what purpose would there be to invent a new space fairing plane or new storage medium, if all it was for was illusion? What reason would there be for a soul in a biological machine, as Francis Crick puts it "The soul is nothing more than a complex network of neurons".

Sources: Francis Crick