@pancake mind explaining to a normie what this is talking about?
this post was submitted on 21 May 2023
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Yeah, sorry... Eliminative materialism is the belief that subjective experiences like consciousness can't possibly be defined or explained because they simply don't exist. According to this, they are just an illusion. As extreme and counter-intuitive as this may sound, it is a plausible explanation for the phenomenon of ego death, which I have experienced myself (in the medical, non-spiritual, drug-induced sense, an extreme form of depersonalization), and would under this school of thought simply entail a temporary malfunction of the mechanisms sustaining this illusion.
Since eliminative materialists deny that consciousness can be defined at all, this meme implies that they feel contempt and frustration towards repeatedly failed attempts to do so.