Is Consciousness Really Produced by the Brain? 04 | Can Lifeless Atoms Create a Conscious Mind?

Atoms in your brain cannot think, feel, or know they exist.

So how do unconscious atoms come together and produce “you”—a person who remembers, suffers, chooses, and asks, “Who am I?

In this lecture, Khenpo Sodargye explains the materialist view that consciousness is nothing more than brain activity. He introduces functionalist materialism, emergence, bottom-up causation, determinism, and reductionism in a clear and accessible way.

✨ In this session Why some scientists say consciousness is only brain activity What “emergence” means in simple terms How lifeless atoms are said to produce awareness Why feelings, memory, and intention are reduced to chemistry Why this view needs careful examination

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