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People aren't brains in jars connected to inconvenient bodies, humanity is inherently biological.

That’s the gist of phenomenal consciousness, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the human body or the human brain is particularly important for creating consciousness, or aspects of humanity that we like. Though, it seems they work well together. The human brain, in particular, is the best tool we have at hand currently for understanding the universe and how it works. I hope that we create a better brain than ours to figure out things we cannot, for any number of reasons.

I wish you understood what I wrote.

It would be more fruitful if you say what you think I am missing, shrug

To clarify what I meant: the human experience cannot exactly be created without a human body, but the exact form and matter of the body is immaterial for a higher-level conscious being. I am of the view that you cannot achieve an understanding of the world, or higher-level states of consciousness, without a body with which to experience physical phenomena, and maybe that’s only because we have incomplete models of physical phenomena.

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