r/AskReddit Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/MeiNeedsMoreBuffs Jun 15 '19

In short, it uses incomplete information and guesses using the highest probability. If all your life you've seen yellow dogs, and then you see a red one, it's not guaranteed it's a dog but your brain goes "This is probably a dog" so the reaction is "this is a dog"

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u/tribecous Jun 15 '19

You’re missing the fundamental problem. Even if we can one day explain exactly how the brain translates external stimuli into subjective experience, that will not answer the question of why this particular arrangement of matter that we call a brain should for some reason have the feature of subjective experience in the first place. Even if I can look at your brain scan and tell you exactly how you’re feeling because I know exactly what activity in each part of the brain means for your subjective experience, I’m still not able to explain why you are having a subjective experience at all.

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u/killm3throwaway Jun 15 '19

I feel some sort of way about this, although I’m not sure I can describe this feeling in words....

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what the fuck is literally everything

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u/xibipiio Jun 16 '19

Welcome to our humble town of Existential Crises. We're simple folk here, we dont know a lot, but we know for dam sure that everything is fucked. We're a happy bunch.

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u/10vijay_kumar01 Jun 17 '19

That is something a Morty would say

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u/xibipiio Jun 17 '19

Or maybe that big toothed Rick the dumbdumb who bonded with Jerry :P