All that's missing is a beating heart and a working brain. The brain dies and that's it. The rest is superstition or fear. We are meat like the cows we eat when their heart stops. Of course the person "isn't there", because the brain is dead.

I suggest your conclusive judgement may turn out to be premature. Your diagnosis of life as only electro-mechanical leaves huge holes in the picture with no answers except a glaze-eyed retreat into undefined complexity theory. It is perfectly all right NOT to know for sure; but it is a bit abrasive to aggressively know something that very well might not be so.

One reason is that the implications of your perspective are both inexplicable and grim.


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