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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

Hypoxia absolutely can induce hallucinations.

Meanwhile, everything we have learned about language and consciousness is explainable by emergent but mechanistic physical interactions.

The meat in your head does the thinking, not some spirit energy blob that has never been measured and is not predicted by any accepted theory.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5usXhX0zaO4