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Conciousness is just an emergent property of the multiple parts of the brain trying to interpret and respond to its surroundings.
Edit: I stand by what I said, but you all don't need to be so mean and vile about it....
My favorite response for this is 'point to your mind.'
My mean response is 'notexecutive@shi.itjust.works is just a random user name with some words attached and no person actually exists behind it.'
Another response could be "A car is just some wheels and an engine."
Sure would be fun to watch someone try and drive some wheels and an engine.
The point of emerging systems is that they tend to be more than just a sum of their parts:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gestalt
In One Piece the main characters name is Luffy.
https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_2