Atoms aren’t consciousness though. Matter is energy. However, your consciousness exists in a non-corporeal sense. There isn’t a glob of atoms somewhere in your brain where the continuum of consciousness resides. They didn’t explain that on TNG.
Actually yes, there really is. Memories are just connections between neurons and synapses firing in an individuals brain. Emotions are just chemicals and hormones secreted from the pineal gland and regulated by the hypothalamus as part of your bodies endocrine system.
There is no such thing as a “soul”, or even of some magical idea of spiritual consciousness. Everything we are, every memory, thought, emotion, phobia, personality trait, intelligence…is all biological.
Atoms aren’t consciousness though. Matter is energy. However, your consciousness exists in a non-corporeal sense. There isn’t a glob of atoms somewhere in your brain where the continuum of consciousness resides. They didn’t explain that on TNG.
Actually yes, there really is. Memories are just connections between neurons and synapses firing in an individuals brain. Emotions are just chemicals and hormones secreted from the pineal gland and regulated by the hypothalamus as part of your bodies endocrine system.
There is no such thing as a “soul”, or even of some magical idea of spiritual consciousness. Everything we are, every memory, thought, emotion, phobia, personality trait, intelligence…is all biological.
We’ve known that for decades by this point.
None of this is actually settled science at all though, is it? Not enough to be talking about it with such certainty anyway.