Where do the pictures in your imagination exist?

[behnam1999]

When you imagine a sunset, no photons are hitting your eyes, and yet you “see” it. These mental images don’t exist in physical space, but they feel real. Could this be a sign that consciousness itself is not confined to the physical world?

[Berethor]

It exist in the brain, good luck remembering stuff if you get an dementia at old age.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/umqtexaA93I

[behnam1999]

True, memory relies on the brain. But even if neurons store information, that doesn’t explain why recalling it produces a vivid image inside your mind. The brain’s physical changes alone don’t have colors, shapes, or experiences, yet we see them. Isn’t that evidence that conscious experience isn’t the same as just physical brain activity?

[Berethor]

Does dementia and brain damage take the "soul" away, your does "souls" does not exist?

allthetropes.org/wiki/Cessation_of_Existence

[behnam1999]

I’m not denying the brain affects our experience. Dementia or injury clearly changes what we can perceive or remember. That shows the brain is like a window or instrument for consciousness, not necessarily the source of it. Just because damaging the instrument alters the experience doesn’t prove that the experience itself is purely physical. The mental images, thoughts, and awareness still point to something that feels non-physical.

[Berethor]

The brain can be seen as a complex computer, nothing points that supernatural is real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMaK6k4oZ20

[behnam1999]

Calling the brain a ‘complex computer’ explains how information is processed, but it doesn’t explain why processing produces conscious experience at all. A computer can store and manipulate data, but it doesn’t see or feel anything. The fact that our minds have vivid, subjective experiences like mental images, emotions, awareness, shows there’s something more than mere physical computation.

[Berethor]

AI is becoming very human-like over the years, it can see with camera and answer things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND0Lp9GcRzo

[behnam1999]

AI can process inputs and respond to them, but it doesn’t experience anything. A camera captures light, a program processes it, and outputs an answer, but there’s no inner awareness, no ‘seeing’ in the way you or I feel seeing a sunset in our mind. Subjective experience (that vivid, first-person feeling) is what separates consciousness from even the most sophisticated AI.

[Berethor]

We living organisms but consciousness can be lost. What you think about brain uploading?

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Brain_Uploading

[behnam1999]

You're right that consciousness can change or be lost if the brain is damaged. But that doesn’t automatically mean consciousness is just physical. Brain uploading (the idea of moving your mind into a computer) is mostly science fiction right now and has a lot of big questions.

Even if we could copy the brain perfectly, it’s not clear that the computer version would actually experience anything, or if it would just act like it does. Philosophers call this the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness (why subjective experience even exists) and we still don’t have an answer.

Plus, there’s the question of identity. If your mind gets uploaded, is it really you, or just a copy? So yeah, it’s an interesting idea, but it’s far from proving that consciousness is purely physical or can be transferred.

[Nikki1989]

When you imagine something, your brain is essentially re-creating the sensory and emotional experience of seeing, hearing, or feeling it.

[behnam1999]

Sure, the brain can re-create sensory patterns. But notice this: the neurons themselves aren’t colored or shaped like a sunset. They’re just electrical signals. Yet in your mind, you actually see the colors and shapes. Where does that subjective experience live? Isn’t it strange that something purely physical produces something that feels non-physical?