There is such a profound difference between attaching meaning & discovering it. Without robust inquiry, no insight can be gained...without insight, no greater approximation to that truth of which we are (not the entirety) but an integral part.
Your dialog with Jordan Peterson was very intriguing. I've just ordered a copy of _Interdependence: Biology and Beyond_ by Kritri Sharma. I'm so glad that you are encouraging us to expand beyond the prison house of reductionist neurology. I would love to see a dialogue between you and Raymond Tallis Thanks for spending so much time elucidating these complex ideas!
Sir, I've very recently come to know about you after hearing you talk with Dr Jordan Peterson, and I've been also following a Philosopher called Jittu Krishnamurthy, who you are perhaps familiar with. I felt deeply that your inquiry and arguments with all it's considerations are quite in line with Krishnamurthy's thinking in the sense that such considerations must be a part of the attempt to understand existence. Especially the consideration of the supremely limited sight of the "mechanism" that is "thinking" or thought through the similarly limited language not that it doesn't have its purpose and use. Now it seems that we want to be free from the known, from static dead memory. I wish and wonder if you're interested in inquiring about these things with me perhaps in the form of a discussion, because I don't believe in speculation. These matters are what seem to me to be the most important aspects of the world to deal with and hence my perhaps straight forward request. I hope I haven't misinterpreted you. I felt as though I feel about these things in similar spirit to yours.
In ways of attending the word 'affect' is mentioned once l believe? And as l listen to this talk l wonder where the 1st-person perspective of affects subconscious self-regulation is? Would love to see a conversation between Iain & Lisa Feldman Barret about the subconscious nature of affective realism. Like the affect of birth of a new day or resurrection of the Light?
Our consciousness is the product of our initial ignorance... once we realized we existed we were presented with the action reaction process of .. I exist WHAT WHERE WHY AM I? And so our perception of reality and life began
@@rleclaire87 I am sorry that trying to understand the simple concept of the binary system that creates and communicates all information is bothering you… go back to sleep.
@@rleclaire87 you need to listen instead of telling me to stop talking.. maybe you understand the social aspects of psychology, but you have no idea what consciousness is or why how when where it was created…. You are the one who needs to stop talking and start listening or you will be stuck at the same level of ignorance you have chosen to exist at….
@@rleclaire87 and you are ignorant because you do not listen enough… but if it makes you happy to be ignorant stay ignorant… you have not supported any of your comments with evidence logic or reason.. why should anyone pay attention to you.. why did you even bother to submit your ignorant comment that are ignorant in terms of rudeness and lack of intelligent content
@@rleclaire87 this perception of a physical reality is just a creation of our consciousness the whole purpose of which is to make our existence as a singularity in a universe of nothingness more enjoyable… like an author creating a fictional story to entertain himself.. Like Iain McGilchrist does to entertain his flock of sheep that are making him rich.. What a joke….
There is ONE consciousness and we are it ... creating this perception of a UNI verse this SINGULARITY... expanding with every action/reaction positive negative our familiar 10001100 creative force
The brain allows us to experience consciousness in terms of the enjoying the sounds and tastes and purpose. That gives our existence meaning. Why do we exist? We do not know but since we are aware that we exist it would be horrible to be alone and so we created this perception of reality to give our existence meaning and purpose
Did you say opposites.. a binary expression of our consciousness 10001101 with which we can CREATE every expression of our conscious purpose and meaning we require to justify our existence
We CREATED our existence just like we created all the concepts written in all those books on your bookshelf... we imagined the story and used the n off on off binary system to express our perception of reality as vibrations 100111001 color angstroms vibrating energy sounds decibels vibrating energy Morse code ... all a simple expression that our sapience used to create everything at the very basis of existence THE FIRING OF SYNAPSES 10011-00 the flow of energy that we created to express our self awareness of our consciousness I THINK therefore I exist... just as thoughts nothing physical all just a perception... like a dream.... try this for
Try thinking this way.. The past no longer exists The future does not exist yet Only now ever exists A flow of now after now after now A singularity constantly changing form Energy that cannot be created or destroyed... But our now consists of FAITH in memories we have now of a past forever gone and HOPE we have now for a future that does not exist yet.... LOVE??? of life we can only experience NOW after now after now
You have it backwards.. our conscious awareness created the PERCEPTION of matter which actually is subatomic electromagnetic... expressed as protons electrons neutrons... expressed as flesh and our PERCEPTION of a reality we imagine into existence to give our existence meaning and purpose..
@@geoffreydawson5430 sure if I knew Braille or binary... communication can be expressed in many forms but I n the end sound colours are just BINARY in their “basic” form 1011100 etc. Angstroms are colours vibrations decibels are sound vibrations... the firing of synapses are another form of binary or electromagnetic energy pulses.. All that exist is energy going on off the on off on off Our THOUGHTS are just a perception of reality we communicate with
@@geoffreydawson5430 REALITY 2 we created the universe because we needed to give our existence meaning and purpose our existence would be lonely and boring and meaningless. Not a pleasant place to exist.. so we took the energy vibrations on off on off and created a binary system to communicate and express our consciousness and wareness 10001110 is all that is necessary we call those vibrations angstroms for clues and decibels for sound etc.. we create meaning with those same vibrations which create our thoughts expressed as the firing of synapses.. another consideration is time that does not exist except as now... the past forever over and the future ne’er yet.. buT NOW consists of FAITH in memories of a past forever over and gone and HOPE for a future which does not exist yet.. that leaves us with the LOVE we need to make our existence have meaning and a purpose which is to make our nows enjoyable by as they change form from now to bow to now because that is all that ever exists Xxxx Emm J Bean you obviously learn NOTHING ... 1: color is angstroms vibrating energy 2: sound is decibels Vibrating energy 3: every thought you have is firing synapses 4: our entire existence is based on. “I THINK” Therefore I Am .... 5: but we get so caught up in our experiences we perceive as physical and do not realize everything is just subatomic electromagnetic energy... 6: which is good because that is what allows us to create and enjoy the purpose of life which is to create and enjoy our existence. I know it’s circular reasoning but THAT IS LIFE Xxxxxx Reyes Rey here is how it works. It is like a story... there can be a million words in a story but one word is just part of that story ... each of us is a self aware part of the entire story....you for example can have many different thoughts.. I like the colour green like grass but I also like the colour blue like the sky...each of us is just one part of the singularity we refer to as “God” the creator.. yes we created ourself because when we became self aware of our existence. We wanted to know what am I ... where am” “I how am I and WHY am I ??? But there was no answer to those questions so we had to CREATE answers.. we created our self in order to give our existence a meaning and a purpose.. I THINK ... I AM.. therefore I exist but I can only guess or imagine what I am.... or how I came to exist... life is that story we created to explain our existence..we are the UNI (ONE) verse... we are a SINGULARITY ... and each person place thing or event is just a THOUGHT we created to give our existence a cause and a purpose and a meaning...IOW we created ourself Xxxx That is the reason we created the universe so we could enjoy the experiences.. I guess we must learn from trial and error .. everything is binary..action... reaction.... if action causes good we do it again... if action causes bad we don’t do it again.. reminds me of what Einstein said “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result... we need to learn to stop doing the things that harm us Woah Everything in existence is a binary expression of vibrating energy 1: sound decibels vibrating energy 2: sight angstroms vibrating energy 3 thoughts firing synapses vibrating energy 4: 10011100 binary system that communicates call information vibrating energy 5: all that has ever existed as a self aware consciousness is created as a binary expression 6: but the past even micro second ago is over and does not exist The future even a micro second from now does not exist yet Only NOW CAN EVER EXIST ...but... our now consists of FAITH in memories of a past that does not exist anymore... HOPE for a future that does not exist yet... all that has ever existed is NOW which is constantly changing for.. yes FAITH HOPE and LOVE of our self awareness which must be expressed NOW after NOW after NOW as we create our existence as a self aware consciousness.....
Argh.. we need to perceive our self awareness as a physical perception of reality in order to give our consciousness a way to express its existence... Oh never mind .... our self awareness CREATED this perception of a physical reality to distract itself from the loneliness of being a SINGULARITY in of the “I AM” of self awareness I think therefore I exist ... even the New Testament expresses the concept of “in the beginning was the word... aka thought... which became flesh... and dwelt among us ... expressing itself as the SPIRIT of truth and right NON PHYSICAL part that simply perceived itself as the physical expression of the SPIRIT of our consciousness or self awareness.... ..... IOW... we CREATED OURSELF... to give our existence purpose and meaning.. without which our meaningless existence would be a very lonely expression of a singularity that says I think therefore I AM but everything else is just a product of my own imagination
U have the audacity to be rude to someone while accusing them of rudeness and to misinterpret genesis while shouting ignorance and atheism. Amazing. So how exactly did "we" (whatever that means) create the universe? What created us? Where did this happen? Why did "we" decide to make it as it is, and not some other way? In particular, why did "we" make so much that is hostile to us and so little to call home? Where have these super-powers gone? U sound as if u have somewhat of a God complex urself. Please stay away from kids.
@@Davehatessocialists I will ignore your own ignorance and answer your questions. “We” refers to our collective consciousness . “I think therefore “I AM”” everything else is just a product of my thinking. The “UNI” verse is just that, a SINGULARITY. Moses asked God “Who shall I say sent me” God replied “Tell them “I AM” has sent you. I am is not an entity, it is simply the FACT the EVIDENCE that I know I exist from personal experience. Everything else is just a product of “MY” thoughts. Do you think you are a physical reality? Atoms? Protons electrons neutrons? Subatomic particles? You are not physical in any way. You are electromagnetic energy. Thoughts. Consciousness. Physical is just a perception we create in order to make our existence as a lonely bored singularity a more enjoyable experience.
@@Davehatessocialists HOW did we create the universe? It’s called “circular reasoning” and “the suspension of disbelief “ I ask myself the question what am I? (1) Big Bang of unanswerable questions What where when how why do I know I exist? (0) answers to those questions 1000011111000111 do you recognize that binary expression of which all knowledge and communication consists of. Ones a collective consciousness of the (1) question with (0) answers. So we created this physical perception of reality to make our boring lonely existence as a singularity a more enjoyable experience.
@@Davehatessocialists why so hostile? We learn from our mistakes. Action/thought- good consequence 1 repeat Action/thought - bad consequence 0 Do not repeat The past is over does not exist anymore The future does not exist yet Only now ever exists. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. We are an ever expanding ever changing consciousness. CREATING A UNIVERSE to make our lonely boring existence as a singularity more enjoyable.
@@Davehatessocialists also a hostile environment is more of a challenge. More interesting. And the benefits is the feeling of success as we overcome those challenges and become a better expression of our consciousness and existence.
There is such a profound difference between attaching meaning & discovering it.
Without robust inquiry, no insight can be gained...without insight, no greater approximation to that truth of which we are (not the entirety) but an integral part.
I love Iain McGilchrist so much.
Please don’t ever give up. There are people coming to help
Nice
Fantastically fascinating!
Pavlov's peas! Astonishing
Your dialog with Jordan Peterson was very intriguing. I've just ordered a copy of _Interdependence: Biology and Beyond_ by Kritri Sharma. I'm so glad that you are encouraging us to expand beyond the prison house of reductionist neurology. I would love to see a dialogue between you and Raymond Tallis Thanks for spending so much time elucidating these complex ideas!
The Raymond Tallis interview with Iain is available in the members' section.
@@vanessadylyn6916 Great to know. Thanks!
Is there a reference for the genetic deletion studies that Dr McGilchrist mentioned? Those results are fascinating
Sir, I've very recently come to know about you after hearing you talk with Dr Jordan Peterson, and I've been also following a Philosopher called Jittu Krishnamurthy, who you are perhaps familiar with.
I felt deeply that your inquiry and arguments with all it's considerations are quite in line with Krishnamurthy's thinking in the sense that such considerations must be a part of the attempt to understand existence. Especially the consideration of the supremely limited sight of the "mechanism" that is "thinking" or thought through the similarly limited language not that it doesn't have its purpose and use.
Now it seems that we want to be free from the known, from static dead memory.
I wish and wonder if you're interested in inquiring about these things with me perhaps in the form of a discussion, because I don't believe in speculation. These matters are what seem to me to be the most important aspects of the world to deal with and hence my perhaps straight forward request.
I hope I haven't misinterpreted you. I felt as though I feel about these things in similar spirit to yours.
In ways of attending the word 'affect' is mentioned once l believe? And as l listen to this talk l wonder where the 1st-person perspective of affects subconscious self-regulation is? Would love to see a conversation between Iain & Lisa Feldman Barret about the subconscious nature of affective realism. Like the affect of birth of a new day or resurrection of the Light?
Our consciousness is the product of our initial ignorance... once we realized we existed we were presented with the action reaction process of .. I exist WHAT WHERE WHY AM I? And so our perception of reality and life began
@@rleclaire87 I am sorry that trying to understand the simple concept of the binary system that creates and communicates all information is bothering you… go back to sleep.
@@rleclaire87 you need to listen instead of telling me to stop talking.. maybe you understand the social aspects of psychology, but you have no idea what consciousness is or why how when where it was created…. You are the one who needs to stop talking and start listening or you will be stuck at the same level of ignorance you have chosen to exist at….
@@rleclaire87 and you are ignorant because you do not listen enough… but if it makes you happy to be ignorant stay ignorant… you have not supported any of your comments with evidence logic or reason.. why should anyone pay attention to you.. why did you even bother to submit your ignorant comment that are ignorant in terms of rudeness and lack of intelligent content
@@rleclaire87 this perception of a physical reality is just a creation of our consciousness the whole purpose of which is to make our existence as a singularity in a universe of nothingness more enjoyable… like an author creating a fictional story to entertain himself..
Like Iain McGilchrist does to entertain his flock of sheep that are making him rich..
What a joke….
There is ONE consciousness and we are it ... creating this perception of a UNI verse this SINGULARITY... expanding with every action/reaction positive negative our familiar 10001100 creative force
The brain allows us to experience consciousness in terms of the enjoying the sounds and tastes and purpose. That gives our existence meaning. Why do we exist? We do not know but since we are aware that we exist it would be horrible to be alone and so we created this perception of reality to give our existence meaning and purpose
We are a singularity ONE MIND that is creating a dream like existence that gives our existence purpose and meaning
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Did you say opposites.. a binary expression of our consciousness 10001101 with which we can CREATE every expression of our conscious purpose and meaning we require to justify our existence
We CREATED our existence just like we created all the concepts written in all those books on your bookshelf... we imagined the story and used the n off on off binary system to express our perception of reality as vibrations 100111001 color angstroms vibrating energy sounds decibels vibrating energy Morse code ... all a simple expression that our sapience used to create everything at the very basis of existence THE FIRING OF SYNAPSES 10011-00 the flow of energy that we created to express our self awareness of our consciousness
I THINK therefore I exist... just as thoughts nothing physical all just a perception... like a dream.... try this for
Try thinking this way..
The past no longer exists
The future does not exist yet
Only now ever exists
A flow of now after now after now
A singularity constantly changing form
Energy that cannot be created or destroyed...
But our now consists of FAITH in memories we have now of a past forever gone and HOPE we have now for a future that does not exist yet.... LOVE??? of life we can only experience NOW after now after now
You have it backwards.. our conscious awareness created the PERCEPTION of matter which actually is subatomic electromagnetic... expressed as protons electrons neutrons... expressed as flesh and our PERCEPTION of a reality we imagine into existence to give our existence meaning and purpose..
Could you of known all this if you were born deaf and blind?
@@geoffreydawson5430 sure if I knew Braille or binary... communication can be expressed in many forms but I n the end sound colours are just BINARY in their “basic” form 1011100 etc. Angstroms are colours vibrations decibels are sound vibrations... the firing of synapses are another form of binary or electromagnetic energy pulses..
All that exist is energy going on off the on off on off Our THOUGHTS are just a perception of reality we communicate with
@@geoffreydawson5430 REALITY 2
we created the universe because we needed to give our existence meaning and purpose our existence would be lonely and boring and meaningless. Not a pleasant place to exist.. so we took the energy vibrations on off on off and created a binary system to communicate and express our consciousness and wareness 10001110 is all that is necessary we call those vibrations angstroms for clues and decibels for sound etc.. we create meaning with those same vibrations which create our thoughts expressed as the firing of synapses..
another consideration is time that does not exist except as now... the past forever over and the future ne’er yet.. buT NOW consists of FAITH in memories of a past forever over and gone and HOPE for a future which does not exist yet.. that leaves us with the LOVE we need to make our existence have meaning and a purpose which is to make our nows enjoyable by as they change form from now to bow to now because that is all that ever exists
Xxxx
Emm J Bean you obviously learn NOTHING ...
1: color is angstroms vibrating energy
2: sound is decibels
Vibrating energy
3: every thought you have is firing synapses
4: our entire existence is based on. “I THINK”
Therefore I Am ....
5: but we get so caught up in our experiences we perceive as physical and do not realize everything is just subatomic electromagnetic energy...
6: which is good because that is what allows us to create and enjoy the purpose of life which is to create and enjoy our existence. I know it’s circular reasoning but THAT IS LIFE
Xxxxxx
Reyes Rey here is how it works.
It is like a story... there can be a million words in a story but one word is just part of that story ... each of us is a self aware part of the entire story....you for example can have many different thoughts.. I like the colour green like grass but I also like the colour blue like the sky...each of us is just one part of the singularity we refer to as “God” the creator.. yes we created ourself because when we became self aware of our existence. We wanted to know what am I ... where am” “I how am I and WHY am I ??? But there was no answer to those questions so we had to CREATE answers.. we created our self in order to give our existence a meaning and a purpose.. I THINK ... I AM.. therefore I exist but I can only guess or imagine what I am.... or how I came to exist... life is that story we created to explain our existence..we are the UNI (ONE) verse... we are a SINGULARITY ... and each person place thing or event is just a THOUGHT we created to give our existence a cause and a purpose and a meaning...IOW we created ourself
Xxxx
That is the reason we created the universe so we could enjoy the experiences.. I guess we must learn from trial and error .. everything is binary..action... reaction.... if action causes good we do it again... if action causes bad we don’t do it again.. reminds me of what Einstein said “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result... we need to learn to stop doing the things that harm us
Woah
Everything in existence is a binary expression of vibrating energy
1: sound decibels vibrating energy
2: sight angstroms vibrating energy
3 thoughts firing synapses vibrating energy
4: 10011100 binary system that communicates call information vibrating energy
5: all that has ever existed as a self aware consciousness is created as a binary expression
6: but the past even micro second ago is over and does not exist
The future even a micro second from now does not exist yet
Only NOW CAN EVER EXIST
...but... our now consists of FAITH in memories of a past that does not exist anymore... HOPE for a future that does not exist yet... all that has ever existed is NOW which is constantly changing for.. yes FAITH HOPE and LOVE of our self awareness which must be expressed NOW after NOW after NOW as we create our existence as a self aware consciousness.....
@@agodfortheatheistnow Wow, I thought as much. Thanks for plugging yourself in, it is very entertaining.
Argh.. we need to perceive our self awareness as a physical perception of reality in order to give our consciousness a way to express its existence...
Oh never mind .... our self awareness CREATED this perception of a physical reality to distract itself from the loneliness of being a SINGULARITY in of the “I AM” of self awareness I think therefore I exist ...
even the New Testament expresses the concept of “in the beginning was the word... aka thought... which became flesh... and dwelt among us ... expressing itself as the SPIRIT of truth and right NON PHYSICAL part that simply perceived itself as the physical expression of the SPIRIT of our consciousness or self awareness....
..... IOW... we CREATED OURSELF... to give our existence purpose and meaning.. without which our meaningless existence would be a very lonely expression of a singularity that says I think therefore I AM but everything else is just a product of my own imagination
U have the audacity to be rude to someone while accusing them of rudeness and to misinterpret genesis while shouting ignorance and atheism. Amazing.
So how exactly did "we" (whatever that means) create the universe?
What created us?
Where did this happen?
Why did "we" decide to make it as it is, and not some other way?
In particular, why did "we" make so much that is hostile to us and so little to call home?
Where have these super-powers gone?
U sound as if u have somewhat of a God complex urself.
Please stay away from kids.
@@Davehatessocialists I will ignore your own ignorance and answer your questions.
“We” refers to our collective consciousness . “I think therefore
“I AM”” everything else is just a product of my thinking. The “UNI” verse is just that, a SINGULARITY.
Moses asked God “Who shall I say sent me” God replied “Tell them “I AM” has sent you. I am is not an entity, it is simply the FACT the EVIDENCE that I know I exist from personal experience. Everything else is just a product of “MY” thoughts.
Do you think you are a physical reality?
Atoms? Protons electrons neutrons?
Subatomic particles? You are not physical in any way. You are electromagnetic energy. Thoughts. Consciousness. Physical is just a perception we create in order to make our existence as a lonely bored singularity a more enjoyable experience.
@@Davehatessocialists HOW did we create the universe? It’s called “circular reasoning” and “the suspension of disbelief “
I ask myself the question what am I? (1)
Big Bang of unanswerable questions
What where when how why do I know I exist?
(0) answers to those questions
1000011111000111 do you recognize that binary expression of which all knowledge and communication consists of.
Ones a collective consciousness of the (1) question with (0) answers.
So we created this physical perception of reality to make our boring lonely existence as a singularity a more enjoyable experience.
@@Davehatessocialists why so hostile?
We learn from our mistakes.
Action/thought- good consequence 1 repeat
Action/thought - bad consequence 0
Do not repeat
The past is over does not exist anymore
The future does not exist yet
Only now ever exists.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed. We are an ever expanding ever changing consciousness.
CREATING A UNIVERSE to make our lonely boring existence as a singularity more enjoyable.
@@Davehatessocialists also a hostile environment is more of a challenge. More interesting. And the benefits is the feeling of success as we overcome those challenges and become a better expression of our consciousness and existence.