The smartest people assume they know nothing. It seems to be the difference between real intellegence, and just having a persona that feigns intellegence.
Note how often this ultimate expert admitted gaps in his/our knowledge. Preparedness of eg doctors to admit what they don't know, I at times find more reassuring than statements from those who claim their expertise makes their knowledge unquestionable.
@@IA100KPDTThey pretend to know what consciousness is, to convince the public that they are a kind of superior thinking human beings. That’s it. Just in time: AND they make a comfortable living out of it.
@@michael.forkert Precisely, the guy said nothing about consciousness and yet so many are praising him like he gave some solid insight and revelation. talk about bootlicking.😆
I am so grateful that people like Sir Roger Penrose exist. For a long time I thought that there was hardly anyone who doubted the theory that our consciousness is a computer process in our brain. Sir Roger Penrose's statements are all the better to hear.
I believe what he means by "understanding" here is what I call it as "knowing". I picked up this perspective from Rupert Spira. "Knowing" or "understanding" is not a function of the mind but an inherent quality (ingredient) of consciousness itself. This is the nature of consciousness. This perspective leads to the understanding that the essence of every object, thought, or sensation is consciousness, dissolving the usual subject-object dichotomy and leading to a non-dual understanding of reality.
Well it cannot be inherent in consciousness itself, because consciousness itself does not exist - it is "itself" an emerging phenomenon caused by the merging of a sense organ with its object. Consciousness does not exist at all until a functioning sense organ and its object come together. This is why consciousness itself is empty of own existence, and of any own properties: its arising is caused by asense organ and a sense object, and its properties are mere imputations from our side.
Do you mean he's pointing out there's a difference between 'knowing' and 'understanding'? Because that's my take. There is 'knowing' something. Which means you oberved or memorized a certain fact, emotion or whatever. Than there's 'understanding', which to me is something entirely different but very difficult ot put into words. Maybe 'inherent' is the best word for it indeed? An 'inherent knowledge' to me encapsulates both the knowledge _and_ understanding of a certain subject.
yes but you're only as conscious a you need to be. Do dogs have a consciousness? How about horses? Do mice? What about insects, do they have a consciousness? they sure don't know or understand as much as we do! how about fish, do they have a consciousness? Okay how about a plant? Does it need a central nervous system for consciousness? Okay, what about fungi? Microscopic animals, bacterium, viruses...* It has nothing to do with understanding or knowing*, it has to do with survival and processing unpredictable and variable environments, it is required for the organism to survive and it is highly variable.
@@bakkels I think there's an interesting overlap between what we're both saying. Roger Penrose wasn't directly addressing the difference between "knowing" and "understanding" in his discussion. His discussion was about how this one element of consciousness (“understanding”) is so strange and unexplainable which is why it’s non computational. Then he later gives out his explanation or argument for that. My intention was to connect his idea of "understanding" to what I call it as “knowing”. So when I say “knowing” it’s same as “understanding” of Penrose. What you called as "knowing" that which involves the initial cognition or perception is what I call as “perception”. And Yes, Penrose is pointing to that same feeling of “understanding” that you described which is this unexplainable or difficult to put it in words. To clarify, when Penrose talks about understanding, he’s suggesting that it’s a process that cannot be fully captured by computational methods-it requires consciousness or awareness. So, “UNDERSTANDING”, in this sense, is inherently tied to consciousness. For example, if someone is talking to you and you are not paying “attention” to what they are saying, even though you will hear the words being spoken you will not “understand” what’s being said. So here consciousness becomes essential ingredient. One cannot truly understand something without being aware of it. You have to bring this torch like attention to the object you want to bring into focus. I call this "attention" as stretching of awareness/consciousness (When I say consciousness or awareness they mean the same). So after the initial cognition the words are just information but the processing of it is what turns it into “understanding”. Now, in my view, all there is to “understanding” is nothing but Consciousness. In fact, if we look deeper all there is to perception, sensation, emotions is consciousness. Not to shamelessly plug, but if you're interested and want to explore more I discuss these ideas in my blog: www.bhadraparekh.com/blogs/consciousness-and-its-nature
I absolutely love and appreciate Sir Roger Penrose and although i have no knowledge of mathematics and know very little of quantum physics, i have still gained knowledge from his teaching and others, however i feel blessed and equal with my owm knowledge when in it comes to consciousness as no body can explain it only but live it and experience it✨💙🙏
The most mature and complete explanation of the nature of consciousness comes from the Vedic Tradition, which says that consciousness is preexisting as an eternal, unmanifest, absolute field beyond time, space, causation...all relative existence. All that exits, the Vedas proclaim, is vibrating consciousness knowing itself in an infinite number of perspectives, manifesting those perspectives as per it's self-referral dynamics. The human brain doesn't produce consciousness..it, like everything else in creation reflects consciousness to the degree that it's structure will allow. More evolved nervous systems will reflect more consciousness with the associated laws of nature for that level of consciousness. The nervous system that is more evolved will have at it's disposal more laws of nature and awareness of laws of nature. A radio doesn't produce the electromagnetic waves it turns into sound..it is a receptor and reflector of some mode of vibration of the electromagnetic field. This can be compared to the how different nervous systems reflect different modes of vibration of the field of consciousness.
Right; if modernity wants to understand what consciousness is why not look into the writings left by those who specialized in it and developed an entire vocabulary for discussing its nature? I suspect modern science doesn't want to admit that there are some things that it can never know by objective methods while failing to realize it is consciousness employing the methods in the first place.
The entire concept of being sentient and being aware and making decisions of our own, its absolutely mind blowing. Why me and not someone else in this body? How do I make decisions? How do I trust myself with my decision making in the future? Even the next breathe I take. It seems to make no sense how deterministic laws being applied to matter (biology and chemistry) can do this but at the end of the day, we don't know yet what this is and hkw it works on a deep enough level to anwser those questions. We just really desire anwsers about what "we" even is. Maybe one day.
@markb3786 I am glad to hear someone tell me that. Why do you think that though? Is it because I'm not making any claims and I'm just saying we don't know yet?
Why not someone else? Cause you are your composition. No external element. Your choises are probably fully deterministic, even though it doesn't seem so.
The psychological person or the mental structure responsible for assuming/ believing that it exists and making decisions or having volition has been termed illusory . While the existence of thought/ sensations has been validated, but the thought taking form of the person and believing itself to be an individual is called illusory. You make take the aforementioned as a possibility or theory and observe. Or you already know all this and I am being presumptuous. 😊
consciousness cannot be learned or understood but it can be transmitted from here to here . From the age of 10 this has been my unchanging unmanifest experience .what HAS changed is the words that i use when i try but fail to create an intellectual understanding .
I was looking for an answer on consciousness, and I didn't find it in the video , I find it in your comment, and it makes so much sense, knowing, knowing , knowing that something outside of us exist, is there, believing that it's there because no one need to convince us , I just know it's there, thank you , Al those explanations by the experts are just unnecessarily complicated, your explanation is simple , yet profound.
What I like about his videos is that he doesn't straight out say "this would prove everything about consciousness. so we have to pursue it". He only says it might be able to explain certain aspect of what we define as consciousness, and that idea is worth pursuing. That makes him much more credible than other scientists who try to jump to other fields and try to innovate new(controversial) idea.
It's crazy how there are so many intersecting concepts here like quality/qualia (Pirsig), computation and its reducibility (Wolfram), measurement problem in QM (Penrose), discreteness vs continuity (the history of the foundations of calculus) that always keep cropping up essentially saying this doesn't fit. There's a throughline in all this stuff that only a few people like Penrose have the courage to say this is off, something's missing.
He is clearly wrong about THAT though. It has become a standard procedure to point out just where Lucas-Penrose goes awry in most textbooks which deal with Godel
Yes, you are very, very correct, and it goes much, much deeper than you think, Wittgenstein spent his whole career arguing for this in a totally different way, and it completely changes the nature of the way we debate religion, spirituality and the universe, people haven't yet realised how enigmatic and serious what he is saying here is. I am trying to figure out this puzzle of consciousness myself, it's what all the science is trying to solve whether they know it or not, and not a single person has a clue right now, Penrose might literally be the smartest person in the world in terms of this.
that's because consciousness IS the underlying basis for "understanding" to explain anything which includes the role of belief in a set of axioms that enables building an argument for the explanation itself (i.e no branch of science can do what they do without the ultimate reality of consciousness)
@@DeewarPutrSurprisingly the reason is actually the opposite. Cognition isn't really mysterious and we have managed to build machines that can cognize aspects of their environment. Any electronic sensor is a good example. Consciousness is something quite different and we don't even understand its purpose, let alone how to create a working model of it
@@DeewarPutr There is no case. You're simply mixing up cognition and information processing and consciousness. Any ordinary electronic sensor has cognition. Consciousness, or the quality of experiencing something(rather than merely taking in information), is something we cannot even detect from the outside in others. We assume that all humans are conscious because why would we be anything special. And we may extend it to mammals and birds. But we have no evidence for it. It doesn't have any discernible function
@@bozdowleder2303 the electronic sensors were built with so called human intelligence with similar principles humans employed already to do some “sensing” in the world for thousands of years.. same line of thought computers can do what human calculators used to already do but better.. so all you need to do is just turn the argument upside down and see that computation or sensing could be aspects of any advanced consciousness but the “awareness” an electric charge has for an electric (or any other) field for all of infinity in space is literally baked into it
@@ripukshaymalhotra245not quite, awarenesses can observe its own nature rigorously with the development of perfectly single-pointed concentration, at which poijt all external and internal stimulus and objects are by definition emptied out of the mind.
@@backwardthoughts1022 I think a better language for emptied is integrated. Awareness is a less complex state of consciousness compared to waking, and it does that by the quality of a higher degree of integrated state. An integrated state is the relation with unity, oneness. A higher degree of Oneness is full and empty at the same time, wich totally fits the discription of an integrated state. From my experience, (I can keep my awareness through all sleep stages even deep sleep and to the nde, i prooved this to myself by an eeg machine, monitoring my meditation and sleep proces) Awareness from my own exprerience, so from practice not from books or others, is an integrated state relation and the foundation of consciousness. It also showed me that consciousness and awareness are holistically in relation. That means that when we are awake we are also a bit a sleep and when we are a sleep we are also a bit awake.
@@blijebij eeg is useless, we have the neural correlates for almost all mental functions including attention and concentration. we know that the avg person is capable of 2sec max concentration and we know genuine practitioners can sustain concentration uninterrupted by any external stimulus or internal object for not seconds but multiple hours. work is begining to be done on ppl who maintain perfect concentration throughout the entire sleep period, but currently more neuroscientist attention is being done on meditators in concentration post clinical death one such large study called 'the tukdam project'. eeg is useless meaningless decades old science, we now operate on directly monitoring the neural correlates themselves.
I really wish they had a closed captioning type of thing you could turn on that simplifies and dumbs down what they are discussing for us average joes who aren't rocket scientists.
There are holes in our words. But, how to describe them? With a new form of logic or math? And, how to we measure them? A quantum theory of language? Sensetime?
I was watching this channel yesterday. Same subject but other scientists. I was thinking I would like to hear Penrose on this show. And voila, the dude is here. He talks about stuff that is more of human interest than just another object we will never get close to.
But _all_ of our experiences (e.g. anxiety, happiness, pain, pleasure, taste of chocolate, etc.) begin when we become conscious and end whenever we lose consciousness.
since you cannot rigorously observe consciousness, what is the point of commenting on it using your folk level of introspection when there are persons who can talk on the matter around
“That’s the whole problem with science - you’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder” - Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes, the 6-year old philosopher…
Can dreams be considered to be "consciousness"? At times they can seem quite real. How can you mathematically put a frame around the "consciousness" concept?
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I only watch CTT via UA-cam. Do the new seasons on PBS feature new interviews or are they splicing together bits from previous interviews in other seasons? Love it all anyway!
I think the fact that the contents of conscious experience are comprised of un-quantifiable, pure qualities that can't be computed or described by mathematics, not even in principle, also proves that consciousness is not computational.
I keep looking at these videos in the hope of getting a rational explanation. Alas, the words slip through my mind like water through a sieve. More and more, I think the question is itself a red herring.
Being conscious is the process in which the outside gets inside where it persists in the form of representations (also called thoughts). Consider the representation of one's own body to be the self. Since it is the self that is conscious, as in I am conscious, one can easily imagine that the representations are modulating the self-thought and what's going on there is the core of what being conscious means.
@@backwardthoughts1022 Being conscious is the process in which the outside gets inside where it persists in the form of representations (also called thoughts). Consider the representation of one's own body to be the self. Since it is the self that is conscious, as in I am conscious, one can easily imagine that the representations are modulating the self-thought and what's going on there is the core of what being conscious means. Thus red is a representation, a particular modulation process of the self and process, being an abstract notion and representation being context dependent combine allowing us to say 'red' has no location. Approximately and in need of exploration.
That's why the show is called "*closer* to truth" - it focuses on questions that we cannot (and may never be able to) fully answer. However that does not mean that we should not try. Nor does it mean that we cannot make any progress, I.e. to get "closer"...
It's a very interesting hypothesis, and is be very interested to know whether it's true, but I still don't think I heard anything that makes it sound like anything more than an assertion of belief.
The annealing of noise at our scale allows us to communicate, understand and accomplish tasks, we don't need to get it 100% correct, our aspiration toward 100% is enough.
I can sometimes see black cloth like substance closing down in my vision before blacking out, but if i push thoughts into my head and it vanishes with me ragaining the consciousness. Several times when I had vision and audio cues in persistive matter I feel like time travels without me trying. Also weird phenomenon
3:54 I thought our atoms/dna had some kind of genetic memory - so conciousness is seemingly some form of recycling, like reincarnation for you to evolve to higher spiritual planes and each lifetime gives you a chance to build on your life lessons to perfect yourself spiritually so you can connect with source more fully.
To a certain extent, if your experience is collected through people’s memories. You might end up shaping behaviour and future decisions. Maybe you’ll simply be a small ripple.
Could consciousness be as a result of a “carrier wave” that exists in the Universe which all of us can connect with by degrees. Some have a better connection than others for a variety of reasons. Is that why history seems on the surface to repeat itself?
I believe that consciousness is that part of the Energy which forms us, is us, which is aware of itself. It is a characteristic of that Energy. From that, it becomes aware of other and then informs the self conscious Energy.
Consciousness, energy these are the most fascinating topics to so many of us. I have a theory that the Krebs Cycle has some very interesting mystery to release of energy and so release and a change in location of energy and so consciousness. In this cycle the way the cell responds is to actually harness and transfer the energy from 1 location to another. Would love to see a scientist take a look at this process closer.
Is awareness a result of consciousness or is awareness makes us realize that we are conscious? But then again we have to be conscious of the fact that we are aware before we make the obvious declaration that we are.
Perhaps acquiring knowledge of what consciousness IS, would involve a epistemic recursiveness for which we are not constituted to perform,... as in analogy that we are not constituted to acquire an intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics for example.
yeah, we're built to die... quite possibly by beings that were built to die(I kinda know I was built by my biological parents half out of whose initial number have already passed per example)... but not before procreating apparently... we are the ones that ultimately hold the capacity to stop ourselves from first understanding and then maybe breaking the cycle... and up until this very day we have done so with near invariable success
@@LivingNow678 Zen Buddhism is garbage (like all religion). But then neither Pirsig's book nor mine have anything to do with promoting Buddhism or any religion for that matter. I'm 100% antitheist. :)
@@NeilMalthus Fashion (moda) is often garbage the genuine Zen is an existential state that only few persons can live. I don't know what it takes to a person to get to the Original Zen State; maybe many Lives, maybe a particular discipline, maybe .... I'm practicing Yoga (almost the whole day prana through the nose and asanas in the morning) since 35 years (I am 66), still Life and its applications to me are a Mystery. I don't know if I am an atheist or a 'believer', but what I love to say is that: I live in the INFINITO
@@NeilMalthus INFINITO is the only Entity that can be understood as enterely without limits and capable of including in It Existential State every possible entity (being), that is: all the existential states. Since, two or more infinito would limit each other, can only exist One. It must therefore be recognised as the only Unlimited Supreme Entity that with Its own intrinsic independence: creates, generates, pervades, emanates, transforms and includes each and all entities existing in It. Whatever element is taken into consideration, it cannot limit INFINITO, which has neither beginning nor end is everywhere expanded, from this {hence} having always existed, subsisting in the absence of a first cause, will always exist. It is not relatable to anything other than ItSelf, which sanctions It's Unconditional Existence. INFINITO has not contraries, adjacent, correlatives, correspondents, opposites, terms of paragon and comparison. Only and exclusively INFINITO can be INFINITO and therefore express ItSelf, exist and behave as INFINITO. In realizing all It's own transformations, by Paradox, by including them all already, It does not change, It is therefore simultaneously in moviment and motionless. Also, although not identifiable by form and substance, It includes in ItSelf all possible forms and substances. Including the All {the Whole}, It includes in ItSelf the whatever "what is", which being generated and emanated in ItSelf, is Its part (macro, micro, human or otherwise), which by simple logic, can never manifest, reproduce, match, live or totally replicate the Existential State of INFINITO ItSelf. Therefore there can be no human, artificial, alien, spiritual, divine or other existential state capable of being able to fully determine, formulate and reveal It for: size, mass, density, aspect, space, vibration, demonstrability, image or whatever. INFINITO, beyond the Principles that found the Criterion, cannot be considered or exchanged for this, for that or for anything else.
If you understand the terms and meaning of Buddhism and the ideas of science then there is new way of understanding consciousness because it seems to me to be reflective and evolutionary. Especially if you watch them in correlation of one another.
I don't recall anything Penrose has said that I thought should be dismissed without great care, if at all. Regarding the quality of understanding (a thing), what if that's almost like a blind man's view of an elephant, which is stretched out over 4-d space-time, some sort of feel for that volume relative to the understanding? Not really germane to the discrete vs. continuous dichotomy, nor to whether it's computational. But would also force us to consider resources beyond matter/energy and maybe beyond space-time. Speaking of gravity (to be discontinuous), the separation between that and the quantum world seems rather big. Cosmic even.
This is really "What consciousness is not". Consciousness is the phenomena of subjective experience which includes thinking. And nobody has a clue how cells create a subject and it's experiences which are both totally invisible to an external observer.
The assumption that the subject is created by cells could be just that. Is it possible that consciousness is different from matter altogether and that its true nature can never be known by the objective methodology of the scientific method?
@@Caitanyadasa108 It may involve some unknown aspect of matter and energy but it arises due to the activity of cells. You end that activity and there is no consciousness.
@@jackarmstrong5645Actually, there can be consciousness even if you shut off brain completely. There can be consciousness even if the person is under anesthesia. Ask NDErs...
Penrose states that Gödel’s incompleteness theorem is an indication that our consciousness is not computational. But I don’t see how Gödel’s theorem necessarily excludes computational processes being involved. Gödel’s theorem just shows that we are able to identify truths that apply within formal systems but which are not derivable by the rules of those systems. Machine learning algorithms also do this all the time - Natural Language Processing is probably the most well known example, which is able to compile facts about language syntax and semantics without using any rules about language whatsoever. There’s nothing inherently non-computational about this sort of process.
To get TRULLY random numbers in computers to train ML algorithms (training algorithms are stochastic), it depends on sensors which capture noise from the Universe. This value captured is non-computational and from the Universe (Universe generates random noise). For me, Penrose is right, and our brains are quantum computers which for sure interact with the quantum states of everything around us. When we know the Theory of Everything explaing all physics, then we can START understanding Consciousness from an analytical/cientific point of view. If you want to understand Consciousness empirically, you just need to learn meditation and self-enquiry.
I'm pretty sure that if Roger fucking Penrose says it's not computational, it's not computational. There's always a genius in the comments that knows more than the expert. The nerve of criticizing this man's lifework in a youtube comment.
Am I right in thinking that the cells of the human body are constantly being replaced by new ones (over many years) - but our consciousness (self-awareness) stays the same.. because it’s not a physical thing; So we are still the same person because somehow our personality (whatever that is) remains the same. Maybe that invisible ‘personality’ remains alive after death..(?)
There we have brilliant insight. "Consciousness is more than computation". I have read arguments that the honey bee exhibits consciousness. Not so, what the bee does is pure computation - incredibly good computation with the bare minimum of neurons - but the bee does not know what it is doing. However, where an invertebrate possibly shows emotion - I have witnessed a spider being pursued by a wasp - to me the spider looked terrified in its desperation to escape. If the spider was experiencing fear, does that count beyond computation? Mammals clearly exhibit a variety of complex emotions - you only have to live with a dog to see this. Are these emotions beyond computation - I believe so.
cannot argue both that consciousness is implicit in matter and that matter is mindless. to do this they would have to show how consciousness arises out of the unconscious matter
The answer was provided in Bhagvad Gita as "Absolute Truth". The knowledge was shared approx. 5,000 years ago. In Rig-Veda (10,000 years old approx.) it was mentioned as "Nirgun tattva". Additionally, scripture book of Mandukya Upanishad also mentioned it as "Turiya", "which was translated in English as Conciousness".
With all respect to u, how can u measure something non-local like consciousness using the tools that r local? QED. Can't be done. But yes u can detect presence or absence of the cognitive abilities of an object that is local in binary terms. Yes or no.
If the representations of a number by two people are sufficient to corroborate it, then you could argue that it is an undecideable Kantian synthetic apriori proposition with analytic subject, the number and synthetic predicate, is unique, implying that no axiom originated statement about the number can be evaluated as either true, or false.
Perhaps that "something" besides the physical brain, that makes consciousness is information that might have a physical manifestation that our brain can tap into. The importance of information is observable in quantum experiments.
He is absolutely right, not that he needed my confirmation. The proof comes many times in the way we understand things, and our understanding of things is neither computable, nor something that we could always provide empiric evidence in support of.
@@markh7484 You are asking me to provide evidence for what I said, as Penrose did, could not be provided evidence for, as in "non-computable"? On that note, don't you think you should be the one to provide evidence for your claim that how we end up understanding things is computable. Show us the records. I will not hold my breath.
What Am I? Answer: " I Am " that which allows me to know that " I Am " therefore I Am a unit of self-awareness because to be aware is to be " self-aware " therefore self-awareness is consciousness.
I'm not a Mathematician. Of course there's a discrepancy in our computations in trying to figure out human consciousness. Maybe we're asking the wrong questions? Who are we as a human entity to have consciousness. Does consciousness have a mathematical equation, and if not, why? To many variables?
I agree, if consciousness is an equation, then it is purely physical. My problem is the feeling and awareness we seem to have, how some combinations of atoms create this "Feeling"? You can explain to me how neurons and neurotransmitters travel and communicate, but you can never tell me how the feeling is produced.
@harezothman31 Our spirit knows. That's probably the missing equation because it was never meant to be found. Maybe why time doesn't exist in near death experiences. Maybe why space aliens can go great distances, they can bypass the equation of relativity.
Consciousness is a mystery so I am pleased that scientists like Roger Penrose don’t right off the great mystery that in itself is part of the information or quantum wave function that the universe is, which begs the question is consciousness fundamental to the universe as physicist Paul Davies said in his book ‘ The Demon In The Machine’ ? I think very likely so.
One of the best interviews Einstein said 'Imagination is more important than knowledge' which is very concise. I feel like I could add to it by saying that there are 2 sets, the reality set for our universe and our consciousness's ability to understand or make use of the imaginary set. Where does this imaginary set come form and why does it exist in our brains and nowhere else. The imaginary set also seems much larger, so if its infinite it should be a bigger infinity than the reality set. It doesn't seem logical its there for nothing or just as a model for predictions. I believe its a way this universe is representing those sets but I don't know if its a requirement or just because its possible, therefor it exists. Seems like a long time before humans will actually figure out if true conscious AI is possible.
The fruit fly brain was recently completely mapped and found to have about 3000 neurons. Several researchers have studied whether the fruit fly demonstrates consciousness as defined by self-awareness and problem solving and concluded that fruit fly shows consciousness. It would seem that the definition of consciousness should be species dependent. The philosophical question seems to start from an abstract position that is lost in the world of reality and therefore difficult to comprehend.
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Consciousness is an embrace of what is. It is an openness to what is. It is acceptance of what is. The pupil of an eye is a good analogy for consciousness. It is an opening, gap, or space which allows light (“what is”) into the brain. A narrow consciousness allows only a small amount in, whereas a wide, open consciousness allows a lot more in. When a person is highly conscious, they are not limiting what they are letting in. The are fully open to receiving what is. Again, to speak metaphorically, a highly conscious person is someone who has their arms wide open. And it’s no coincidence that there are many images of Christ, for example, with his arms open. The most poignant of these is his arms wide open whilst hanging on a cross and suffering. That is the challenge. We tend to want consciousness so as to be able to understand why suffering exists or why there is a problem somewhere. We think if we have the understanding, then we can arrange circumstances so that the suffering or problem ceases. But true consciousness embraces suffering. It embraces everything. It embraces what is. It accepts all without limitation or conditions. It is only when we are willing to accept all of what is, are we then able to understand it. As Penrose says, consciousness is not computational. To become conscious, we need to allow ourselves to be impressed upon or to receive thought or receive understanding. We need to be open and receive the light that passes through the pupil. That light is the light of consciousness. Continuing with this analogy, it could be said that consciousness or light exists outside of the brain or outside of the self (actually, it is around the self and embraces the self) and our brain or self is affected by the light or consciousness it receives from the outside. An open mind is impacted by the consciousness it lets in, and the person’s own thoughts align themselves to (or become similar to) the consciousness which has been received. As the thoughts within the self become more and more similar to the consciousness which has been received, the person experiences a greater level of understanding within themselves. Our soul is that which is conscious, and our soul is of God and of all consciousness. It is the soul which enlightens the mind of the self. Contrary to what many people believe, the brain does not engender greater consciousness. In fact, the brain acts as a limitation or barrier to consciousness. It is a blindfold over the pupil which lets in the light of consciousness. The brain is capable of repeated thinking or thoughts along the same lines. When we have very fixed and rigid beliefs or expectations, for example, we are incapable of accepting and seeing something which is contrary to those beliefs and expectations. The brain is computational, and its penchant for continually computing along particular lines actually hinders consciousness. A closed mind or fixed mind cannot see beyond what it already knows. It cannot let in the light of consciousness of the soul. For a person to become more conscious, they must meditate, sleep, or in some way release themselves from their usual thinking processes (for example, some drugs can do it too). I know it sounds back-to-front, but, when you’re asleep, you are more conscious than when you are awake. When you’re awake, your thoughts and beliefs blindfold you and limit what you’re capable of accepting and seeing. As humans, we go through a repeating cycle or rhythm of awake (blindfolded/unconscious), sleep (conscious), awake (blindfolded/unconscious), sleep (conscious). The main purpose of this rhythm or cycle of unconsciousness and consciousness is that such a rhythm leads to an expansion of consciousness. If we were always fully conscious or existed only as a conscious soul, then there would be no need or desire to know more or become conscious of more. However, by having a human form and experiencing ignorance/blindfoldedness/unconsciousness whilst being awake, then out of that is born a desire to know more. That desire to know more ultimately leads to an expansion of consciousness. Human beings are, therefore, at the "leading edge" or "outer edge" of consciousness, where new consciousness is emerging.
One of the most knowledgeable people on this earth saying we don’t know very much . How refreshing is that
The smartest people assume they know nothing. It seems to be the difference between real intellegence, and just having a persona that feigns intellegence.
That's the state of the art then.
And this wonderful person is so humble
The more you know, the more you realize how much we don’t know.
These book smart nerds haven't had dried magic mushrooms or Ayahuasca yet. No wonder they're clueless
You can almost see the decades of contemplation in his expressions. What a fascinating mind to have in our time.
He could've saved himself decades of research with 1 session of Ayahuasca or dried magic mushrooms
@@Aliens-Are-Our-Friends2027 happy medium in there somewhere I dare say!
Note how often this ultimate expert admitted gaps in his/our knowledge. Preparedness of eg doctors to admit what they don't know, I at times find more reassuring than statements from those who claim their expertise makes their knowledge unquestionable.
What do you mean Almost!!
Roger Penrose..... a true visionary because he recognises the mystery!
Excellent interview. I love hearing Sir Roger Penrose’s thought process on consciousness. Fascinating stuff.
Same! A very inspiring, excellent and loved scientist. I wish he was 40 years younger so we still would have him around for a long time :)
Bang average if you ask a new age scientist
What a gem of a human being Roger Penrose. ❤
Penrose is the one person who could get me to watch this lamo channel.
so what is consciousness?
@@IA100KPDTThey pretend to know what consciousness is, to convince the public that they are a kind of superior thinking human beings. That’s it. Just in time: AND they make a comfortable living out of it.
@@michael.forkert Precisely, the guy said nothing about consciousness and yet so many are praising him like he gave some solid insight and revelation. talk about bootlicking.😆
And when you talk with him privately, you get the same person. That’s rare.
I am so grateful that people like Sir Roger Penrose exist. For a long time I thought that there was hardly anyone who doubted the theory that our consciousness is a computer process in our brain. Sir Roger Penrose's statements are all the better to hear.
It is still a process in the brain even if not a computer process.
Som Speculations on mind works for me ❤
I believe what he means by "understanding" here is what I call it as "knowing". I picked up this perspective from Rupert Spira. "Knowing" or "understanding" is not a function of the mind but an inherent quality (ingredient) of consciousness itself. This is the nature of consciousness. This perspective leads to the understanding that the essence of every object, thought, or sensation is consciousness, dissolving the usual subject-object dichotomy and leading to a non-dual understanding of reality.
Well it cannot be inherent in consciousness itself, because consciousness itself does not exist - it is "itself" an emerging phenomenon caused by the merging of a sense organ with its object. Consciousness does not exist at all until a functioning sense organ and its object come together.
This is why consciousness itself is empty of own existence, and of any own properties: its arising is caused by asense organ and a sense object, and its properties are mere imputations from our side.
Do you mean he's pointing out there's a difference between 'knowing' and 'understanding'? Because that's my take. There is 'knowing' something. Which means you oberved or memorized a certain fact, emotion or whatever. Than there's 'understanding', which to me is something entirely different but very difficult ot put into words. Maybe 'inherent' is the best word for it indeed? An 'inherent knowledge' to me encapsulates both the knowledge _and_ understanding of a certain subject.
yes but you're only as conscious a you need to be. Do dogs have a consciousness? How about horses? Do mice? What about insects, do they have a consciousness? they sure don't know or understand as much as we do! how about fish, do they have a consciousness? Okay how about a plant? Does it need a central nervous system for consciousness? Okay, what about fungi? Microscopic animals, bacterium, viruses...* It has nothing to do with understanding or knowing*, it has to do with survival and processing unpredictable and variable environments, it is required for the organism to survive and it is highly variable.
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@@bakkels I think there's an interesting overlap between what we're both saying. Roger Penrose wasn't directly addressing the difference between "knowing" and "understanding" in his discussion. His discussion was about how this one element of consciousness (“understanding”) is so strange and unexplainable which is why it’s non computational. Then he later gives out his explanation or argument for that.
My intention was to connect his idea of "understanding" to what I call it as “knowing”. So when I say “knowing” it’s same as “understanding” of Penrose. What you called as "knowing" that which involves the initial cognition or perception is what I call as “perception”. And Yes, Penrose is pointing to that same feeling of “understanding” that you described which is this unexplainable or difficult to put it in words.
To clarify, when Penrose talks about understanding, he’s suggesting that it’s a process that cannot be fully captured by computational methods-it requires consciousness or awareness. So, “UNDERSTANDING”, in this sense, is inherently tied to consciousness. For example, if someone is talking to you and you are not paying “attention” to what they are saying, even though you will hear the words being spoken you will not “understand” what’s being said. So here consciousness becomes essential ingredient. One cannot truly understand something without being aware of it. You have to bring this torch like attention to the object you want to bring into focus. I call this "attention" as stretching of awareness/consciousness (When I say consciousness or awareness they mean the same). So after the initial cognition the words are just information but the processing of it is what turns it into “understanding”.
Now, in my view, all there is to “understanding” is nothing but Consciousness. In fact, if we look deeper all there is to perception, sensation, emotions is consciousness.
Not to shamelessly plug, but if you're interested and want to explore more I discuss these ideas in my blog:
www.bhadraparekh.com/blogs/consciousness-and-its-nature
I absolutely love and appreciate Sir Roger Penrose and although i have no knowledge of mathematics and know very little of quantum physics, i have still gained knowledge from his teaching and others, however i feel blessed and equal with my owm knowledge when in it comes to consciousness as no body can explain it only but live it and experience it✨💙🙏
Kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️
Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱
The most mature and complete explanation of the nature of consciousness comes from the Vedic Tradition, which says that consciousness is preexisting as an eternal, unmanifest, absolute field beyond time, space, causation...all relative existence. All that exits, the Vedas proclaim, is vibrating consciousness knowing itself in an infinite number of perspectives, manifesting those perspectives as per it's self-referral dynamics. The human brain doesn't produce consciousness..it, like everything else in creation reflects consciousness to the degree that it's structure will allow. More evolved nervous systems will reflect more consciousness with the associated laws of nature for that level of consciousness. The nervous system that is more evolved will have at it's disposal more laws of nature and awareness of laws of nature. A radio doesn't produce the electromagnetic waves it turns into sound..it is a receptor and reflector of some mode of vibration of the electromagnetic field. This can be compared to the how different nervous systems reflect different modes of vibration of the field of consciousness.
Right; if modernity wants to understand what consciousness is why not look into the writings left by those who specialized in it and developed an entire vocabulary for discussing its nature? I suspect modern science doesn't want to admit that there are some things that it can never know by objective methods while failing to realize it is consciousness employing the methods in the first place.
You clearly have no conscious. @markh7484
Are you 👻.🤔jonnydangerous2497
@@AnalysisLegend Yes I am.
Sir Roger Penrose, it is "logical." You have always been right.
#acharyaprashantvedant(English)
An incredible mind, and eloquent communicator.
What a great pleasure listening to great interviews through this wonderful channel
they were good like 15yrs ago now they just support kohns coke bill.
@backwardthoughts1022 - What? 🤔
The entire concept of being sentient and being aware and making decisions of our own, its absolutely mind blowing. Why me and not someone else in this body? How do I make decisions? How do I trust myself with my decision making in the future? Even the next breathe I take. It seems to make no sense how deterministic laws being applied to matter (biology and chemistry) can do this but at the end of the day, we don't know yet what this is and hkw it works on a deep enough level to anwser those questions. We just really desire anwsers about what "we" even is. Maybe one day.
Your questions are much smarter than most of the answers on here.
@markb3786 I am glad to hear someone tell me that. Why do you think that though? Is it because I'm not making any claims and I'm just saying we don't know yet?
Why not someone else? Cause you are your composition. No external element. Your choises are probably fully deterministic, even though it doesn't seem so.
The psychological person or the mental structure responsible for assuming/ believing that it exists and making decisions or having volition has been termed illusory . While the existence of thought/ sensations has been validated, but the thought taking form of the person and believing itself to be an individual is called illusory.
You make take the aforementioned as a possibility or theory and observe. Or you already know all this and I am being presumptuous. 😊
@@maxhagenauer24 if that is true, then yeah. But the blaming would also be a deterministic response.
consciousness cannot be learned or understood but it can be transmitted from here to here .
From the age of 10 this has been my unchanging unmanifest experience .what HAS changed is the words that i use when i try but fail to create an intellectual understanding .
I was looking for an answer on consciousness, and I didn't find it in the video , I find it in your comment, and it makes so much sense, knowing, knowing , knowing that something outside of us exist, is there, believing that it's there because no one need to convince us , I just know it's there, thank you , Al those explanations by the experts are just unnecessarily complicated, your explanation is simple , yet profound.
Nothing about Mr. Penrose suggests he's 92 years old. If i didn't know any better I'd easily believe he's 20 years younger.
Great to revisit this talk, always stimulates, but still no understanding.
Anyone who says issues correctly should be listened to
What I like about his videos is that he doesn't straight out say "this would prove everything about consciousness. so we have to pursue it". He only says it might be able to explain certain aspect of what we define as consciousness, and that idea is worth pursuing. That makes him much more credible than other scientists who try to jump to other fields and try to innovate new(controversial) idea.
It's crazy how there are so many intersecting concepts here like quality/qualia (Pirsig), computation and its reducibility (Wolfram), measurement problem in QM (Penrose), discreteness vs continuity (the history of the foundations of calculus) that always keep cropping up essentially saying this doesn't fit. There's a throughline in all this stuff that only a few people like Penrose have the courage to say this is off, something's missing.
He is clearly wrong about THAT though. It has become a standard procedure to point out just where Lucas-Penrose goes awry in most textbooks which deal with Godel
Are you scientist .Are you God saying what is right or what is wrong.😂😂@@bozdowleder2303
Yes, you are very, very correct, and it goes much, much deeper than you think, Wittgenstein spent his whole career arguing for this in a totally different way, and it completely changes the nature of the way we debate religion, spirituality and the universe, people haven't yet realised how enigmatic and serious what he is saying here is. I am trying to figure out this puzzle of consciousness myself, it's what all the science is trying to solve whether they know it or not, and not a single person has a clue right now, Penrose might literally be the smartest person in the world in terms of this.
I’m not a physicist but Penrose is a gem to humanity. He makes mathematics interesting!
Consciousness is like a massive object that’s gravity pulls people in from all branches of science to attempt an explanation at.
that's because consciousness IS the underlying basis for "understanding" to explain anything which includes the role of belief in a set of axioms that enables building an argument for the explanation itself (i.e no branch of science can do what they do without the ultimate reality of consciousness)
@@DeewarPutrSurprisingly the reason is actually the opposite. Cognition isn't really mysterious and we have managed to build machines that can cognize aspects of their environment. Any electronic sensor is a good example. Consciousness is something quite different and we don't even understand its purpose, let alone how to create a working model of it
@@bozdowleder2303 alright just ask yourself how you “truly” know that to be the case (or any other whatsoever case you’re trying to present)
@@DeewarPutr There is no case. You're simply mixing up cognition and information processing and consciousness. Any ordinary electronic sensor has cognition. Consciousness, or the quality of experiencing something(rather than merely taking in information), is something we cannot even detect from the outside in others. We assume that all humans are conscious because why would we be anything special. And we may extend it to mammals and birds. But we have no evidence for it. It doesn't have any discernible function
@@bozdowleder2303 the electronic sensors were built with so called human intelligence with similar principles humans employed already to do some “sensing” in the world for thousands of years.. same line of thought computers can do what human calculators used to already do but better.. so all you need to do is just turn the argument upside down and see that computation or sensing could be aspects of any advanced consciousness but the “awareness” an electric charge has for an electric (or any other) field for all of infinity in space is literally baked into it
6:13 I've always enjoyed learning from Dr. Penrose...and my dogs are loving the birds...lol
Go Bluejays!
5:56 an abstraction layer is somehow complementing the physical one or vice-versa 🤔
In the discussions about consciousness I often miss a clear distinction between consciousness as such and the content of it.
Both are same. Content is consciousness. If not yet, you may please read, the discussion between scientist, D. Boham and J. Krishnamurthi .
@@ripukshaymalhotra245not quite, awarenesses can observe its own nature rigorously with the development of perfectly single-pointed concentration, at which poijt all external and internal stimulus and objects are by definition emptied out of the mind.
@@backwardthoughts1022 I think a better language for emptied is integrated. Awareness is a less complex state of consciousness compared to waking, and it does that by the quality of a higher degree of integrated state. An integrated state is the relation with unity, oneness. A higher degree of Oneness is full and empty at the same time, wich totally fits the discription of an integrated state. From my experience, (I can keep my awareness through all sleep stages even deep sleep and to the nde, i prooved this to myself by an eeg machine, monitoring my meditation and sleep proces) Awareness from my own exprerience, so from practice not from books or others, is an integrated state relation and the foundation of consciousness. It also showed me that consciousness and awareness are holistically in relation. That means that when we are awake we are also a bit a sleep and when we are a sleep we are also a bit awake.
@@blijebij eeg is useless, we have the neural correlates for almost all mental functions including attention and concentration. we know that the avg person is capable of 2sec max concentration and we know genuine practitioners can sustain concentration uninterrupted by any external stimulus or internal object for not seconds but multiple hours. work is begining to be done on ppl who maintain perfect concentration throughout the entire sleep period, but currently more neuroscientist attention is being done on meditators in concentration post clinical death one such large study called 'the tukdam project'. eeg is useless meaningless decades old science, we now operate on directly monitoring the neural correlates themselves.
@@backwardthoughts1022 This is age old trick of the mind to keep itself busy/ going by promising a reward of emptiness in the end.
Sir Roger Penrose is an amazing scientist to listen to. So knowledgeable.....Consciousness is not computational as it's not an physical entity !!
I really wish they had a closed captioning type of thing you could turn on that simplifies and dumbs down what they are discussing for us average joes who aren't rocket scientists.
It's satisfying to know that even the process of understanding in the human mind is a fundamental property of the quantum world
Nonsense!
and if something is not a computational process, that implies what about it?
consciousness is it's content. for human beings, hope , desperation, fear and other innumerable forms of conditionings
There are holes in our words.
But, how to describe them?
With a new form of logic or math?
And, how to we measure them?
A quantum theory of language? Sensetime?
supernatural is supernatural
Amen
What an intellect, you dive into deep learning listening to him
Roger is the man.
I was watching this channel yesterday. Same subject but other scientists. I was thinking I would like to hear Penrose on this show. And voila, the dude is here. He talks about stuff that is more of human interest than just another object we will never get close to.
Anxiety may be the real indicator of consciousness. Our anxiety starts when we develop consciousness and it disappears whenever we lose consciousness.
But _all_ of our experiences (e.g. anxiety, happiness, pain, pleasure, taste of chocolate, etc.) begin when we become conscious and end whenever we lose consciousness.
since you cannot rigorously observe consciousness, what is the point of commenting on it using your folk level of introspection when there are persons who can talk on the matter around
How do you know it disappears? Just means you can't monitor it cause your unconscious...
@@Stifford123 Anxiety can be read on the face by others.
@@domini1331 behaviour and neural correlates are behaviour and neural correlates, not consciousness.
“That’s the whole problem with science - you’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder” - Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes, the 6-year old philosopher…
Could it be a self replicating quantum computational process???
Can dreams be considered to be "consciousness"? At times they can seem quite real. How can you mathematically put a frame around the "consciousness" concept?
I only watch CTT via UA-cam. Do the new seasons on PBS feature new interviews or are they splicing together bits from previous interviews in other seasons? Love it all anyway!
Consciousness is not a computational process….Love it! So simple yet nails it.
I think the fact that the contents of conscious experience are comprised of un-quantifiable, pure qualities that can't be computed or described by mathematics, not even in principle, also proves that consciousness is not computational.
Thanks Sir for the excellent explanation
Is consciousness what we know to be the mental images resulting from the 5 senses (and the knowledge acquired thereafter)?
Where is Faustiin Bray and what happpened to Sound Photosynthesis ?
I admire Roger for at least trying to answer the question.
I keep looking at these videos in the hope of getting a rational explanation. Alas, the words slip through my mind like water through a sieve. More and more, I think the question is itself a red herring.
is red outside the skull or inside the skull or both or neither.
Being conscious is the process in which the outside gets inside
where it persists in the form of representations (also called thoughts).
Consider the representation of one's own body to be the self.
Since it is the self that is conscious, as in
I am conscious,
one can easily imagine that the representations are
modulating the self-thought and
what's going on there is the core of what being conscious means.
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Being conscious is the process in which the outside gets inside
where it persists in the form of representations (also called thoughts).
Consider the representation of one's own body to be the self.
Since it is the self that is conscious, as in
I am conscious,
one can easily imagine that the representations are
modulating the self-thought and
what's going on there is the core of what being conscious means.
Thus red is a representation,
a particular modulation process of the self and
process, being an abstract notion and
representation being context dependent
combine allowing us to say 'red' has no location.
Approximately and in need of exploration.
we are the explanation.we have created the world. now our only task is to look back at ourselves.deep in ourselves.
That's why the show is called "*closer* to truth" - it focuses on questions that we cannot (and may never be able to) fully answer. However that does not mean that we should not try. Nor does it mean that we cannot make any progress, I.e. to get "closer"...
human conscious experience / awareness beyond quantum wave mechanics? maybe time beyond or outside quantum wave function?
at quantum state reduction / measurement, energy (free will) of probability becomes electromagnetic field that turns into photon particle (awareness)?
I believe that history will show Roger to be one of the great thinkers of our time.
It's a very interesting hypothesis, and is be very interested to know whether it's true, but I still don't think I heard anything that makes it sound like anything more than an assertion of belief.
😮after reading the comments I'll ask , does sacred geometry figure into this debate ?
When was this recorded?
Can someone explain why awareness cannot be a computational process based on biochemical mechanisms. I must have missed it in this interview.
The annealing of noise at our scale allows us to communicate, understand and accomplish tasks, we don't need to get it 100% correct, our aspiration toward 100% is enough.
I can sometimes see black cloth like substance closing down in my vision before blacking out, but if i push thoughts into my head and it vanishes with me ragaining the consciousness.
Several times when I had vision and audio cues in persistive matter I feel like time travels without me trying. Also weird phenomenon
3:54 I thought our atoms/dna had some kind of genetic memory - so conciousness is seemingly some form of recycling, like reincarnation for you to evolve to higher spiritual planes and each lifetime gives you a chance to build on your life lessons to perfect yourself spiritually so you can connect with source more fully.
there is a big difference between chemical carryover and an emergent property of memory contained anywhere in any physical structure.
@backwardtMay be yes or may be no.Who knows man.houghts1022
@backwardthoughts1022 wheel of samsara, karma/dharma, enlightenment/nirvana ... obviously idk, just trying to figure it out.
To a certain extent, if your experience is collected through people’s memories. You might end up shaping behaviour and future decisions. Maybe you’ll simply be a small ripple.
I love this CTT.
Is consciousness fundamental or emergent / product of the brain?
@@halcyon2864 i guess that's The idea yeah. Doesnt make sense to me either
Could consciousness be as a result of a “carrier wave” that exists in the Universe which all of us can connect with by degrees. Some have a better connection than others for a variety of reasons. Is that why history seems on the surface to repeat itself?
I love him❤
I like the name of this channel.
I believe that consciousness is that part of the Energy which forms us, is us, which is aware of itself. It is a characteristic of that Energy. From that, it becomes aware of other and then informs the self conscious Energy.
Consciousness, energy these are the most fascinating topics to so many of us. I have a theory that the Krebs Cycle has some very interesting mystery to release of energy and so release and a change in location of energy and so consciousness. In this cycle the way the cell responds is to actually harness and transfer the energy from 1 location to another. Would love to see a scientist take a look at this process closer.
Is awareness a result of consciousness or is awareness makes us realize that we are conscious? But then again we have to be conscious of the fact that we are aware before we make the obvious declaration that we are.
Its the most complex fundamental problem we face, especially given the second law of thermodynamics.
When this was recorded? Why Sir Roger looks younger?
"Our understanding enables us to go beyond any rules of proof that you trust...."
Perhaps acquiring knowledge of what consciousness IS, would involve a epistemic recursiveness for which we are not constituted to perform,... as in analogy that we are not constituted to acquire an intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics for example.
yeah, we're built to die... quite possibly by beings that were built to die(I kinda know I was built by my biological parents half out of whose initial number have already passed per example)... but not before procreating apparently... we are the ones that ultimately hold the capacity to stop ourselves from first understanding and then maybe breaking the cycle... and up until this very day we have done so with near invariable success
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig. The quality of experience.
#ZenAndTheArtOfSavingLifeOnEarth - a road trip novel I wrote during lockdown, 2019
Naturally, I borrowed part of the title from Pirsig. :)
@@NeilMalthus
Probably the scientists of Creative Society are not so Zen, but they are looking for save Life on Earth too
😮😯😊
@@LivingNow678
Zen Buddhism is garbage (like all religion). But then neither Pirsig's book nor mine have anything to do with promoting Buddhism or any religion for that matter. I'm 100% antitheist. :)
@@NeilMalthus
Fashion (moda) is often garbage
the genuine Zen
is an existential state that only few persons can live.
I don't know what it takes to a person to get to the
Original Zen State;
maybe many Lives, maybe a particular discipline, maybe ....
I'm practicing Yoga (almost the whole day prana through the nose and asanas in the morning) since 35 years (I am 66), still Life and its applications to me are a Mystery.
I don't know if I am an atheist or a 'believer', but what I love to say is that:
I live in the INFINITO
@@NeilMalthus INFINITO is the only Entity that can be understood as enterely without limits and capable of including in It Existential State every possible entity (being), that is: all the existential states.
Since, two or more infinito would limit each other, can only exist One. It must therefore be recognised as the only
Unlimited Supreme Entity that with Its own intrinsic independence: creates, generates, pervades, emanates, transforms and includes each and all entities existing in It.
Whatever element is taken into consideration, it cannot limit INFINITO, which has neither beginning nor end is everywhere expanded, from this {hence} having always existed, subsisting in the absence of a first cause, will always exist.
It is not relatable to anything other than ItSelf, which sanctions It's Unconditional Existence.
INFINITO has not contraries, adjacent, correlatives, correspondents, opposites, terms of paragon and comparison.
Only and exclusively INFINITO can be INFINITO and therefore express ItSelf, exist and behave as INFINITO.
In realizing all It's own transformations, by Paradox, by including them all already, It does not change, It is therefore simultaneously in moviment and motionless.
Also, although not identifiable by form and substance, It includes in ItSelf all possible forms and substances.
Including the All {the Whole}, It includes in ItSelf the whatever "what is", which being generated and emanated in ItSelf, is Its part (macro, micro, human or otherwise), which by simple logic, can never manifest, reproduce, match, live or totally replicate the Existential State of INFINITO ItSelf.
Therefore there can be no human, artificial, alien, spiritual, divine or other existential state capable of being able to fully determine, formulate and reveal It for: size, mass, density, aspect, space, vibration, demonstrability, image or whatever.
INFINITO, beyond the Principles that found the Criterion, cannot be considered or exchanged for this, for that or for anything else.
Consciousness is something very unique and fascinating.
If you understand the terms and meaning of Buddhism and the ideas of science then there is new way of understanding consciousness because it seems to me to be reflective and evolutionary. Especially if you watch them in correlation of one another.
I don't recall anything Penrose has said that I thought should be dismissed without great care, if at all.
Regarding the quality of understanding (a thing), what if that's almost like a blind man's view of an elephant, which is stretched out over 4-d space-time, some sort of feel for that volume relative to the understanding? Not really germane to the discrete vs. continuous dichotomy, nor to whether it's computational. But would also force us to consider resources beyond matter/energy and maybe beyond space-time.
Speaking of gravity (to be discontinuous), the separation between that and the quantum world seems rather big. Cosmic even.
This is really "What consciousness is not". Consciousness is the phenomena of subjective experience which includes thinking. And nobody has a clue how cells create a subject and it's experiences which are both totally invisible to an external observer.
The assumption that the subject is created by cells could be just that. Is it possible that consciousness is different from matter altogether and that its true nature can never be known by the objective methodology of the scientific method?
@@Caitanyadasa108 It may involve some unknown aspect of matter and energy but it arises due to the activity of cells. You end that activity and there is no consciousness.
@@jackarmstrong5645 So in your opinion it isn't possible that consciousness is different from matter?
@@Caitanyadasa108 I don't think it is matter. But it could be some unknown effect that arises from the interaction of matter and energy.
@@jackarmstrong5645Actually, there can be consciousness even if you shut off brain completely. There can be consciousness even if the person is under anesthesia. Ask NDErs...
Penrose states that Gödel’s incompleteness theorem is an indication that our consciousness is not computational. But I don’t see how Gödel’s theorem necessarily excludes computational processes being involved. Gödel’s theorem just shows that we are able to identify truths that apply within formal systems but which are not derivable by the rules of those systems. Machine learning algorithms also do this all the time - Natural Language Processing is probably the most well known example, which is able to compile facts about language syntax and semantics without using any rules about language whatsoever. There’s nothing inherently non-computational about this sort of process.
NLP was modelled based on how toddlers learn. But there is so much more to a toddler than learning.
@@__dRC I don’t disagree. I just don’t think Penrose’s argument sufficiently demonstrates this difference.
To get TRULLY random numbers in computers to train ML algorithms (training algorithms are stochastic), it depends on sensors which capture noise from the Universe. This value captured is non-computational and from the Universe (Universe generates random noise). For me, Penrose is right, and our brains are quantum computers which for sure interact with the quantum states of everything around us. When we know the Theory of Everything explaing all physics, then we can START understanding Consciousness from an analytical/cientific point of view. If you want to understand Consciousness empirically, you just need to learn meditation and self-enquiry.
I agree ...... His main point was " I don't know " @@hihello-sx1sx
I'm pretty sure that if Roger fucking Penrose says it's not computational, it's not computational.
There's always a genius in the comments that knows more than the expert. The nerve of criticizing this man's lifework in a youtube comment.
Am I right in thinking that the cells of the human body are constantly being replaced by new ones (over many years) - but our consciousness (self-awareness) stays the same.. because it’s not a physical thing; So we are still the same person because somehow our personality (whatever that is) remains the same. Maybe that invisible ‘personality’ remains alive after death..(?)
Our cells change yes but not all at once 😂
Mathematics on consciousness, is a sentence explaining the space between each word.
How does a.bird decide witch treee it lands on
There we have brilliant insight. "Consciousness is more than computation". I have read arguments that the honey bee exhibits consciousness. Not so, what the bee does is pure computation - incredibly good computation with the bare minimum of neurons - but the bee does not know what it is doing. However, where an invertebrate possibly shows emotion - I have witnessed a spider being pursued by a wasp - to me the spider looked terrified in its desperation to escape. If the spider was experiencing fear, does that count beyond computation? Mammals clearly exhibit a variety of complex emotions - you only have to live with a dog to see this. Are these emotions beyond computation - I believe so.
consciousness is logical experience beyond mathematics?
cannot argue both that consciousness is implicit in matter and that matter is mindless.
to do this they would have to show how consciousness arises out of the unconscious matter
The answer was provided in Bhagvad Gita as "Absolute Truth". The knowledge was shared approx. 5,000 years ago. In Rig-Veda (10,000 years old approx.) it was mentioned as "Nirgun tattva". Additionally, scripture book of Mandukya Upanishad also mentioned it as "Turiya", "which was translated in English as Conciousness".
How does that explain anything?
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Like we're going to get an answer here.
I just want to know why they cant stop the cameras from moving side to side.
With all respect to u, how can u measure something non-local like consciousness using the tools that r local? QED. Can't be done. But yes u can detect presence or absence of the cognitive abilities of an object that is local in binary terms. Yes or no.
Sir Roger Penrose is one of the best in the field of study. But the question should sound like "in your opinion, what is consciousness".
If the representations of a number by two people are sufficient to corroborate it, then you could argue that it is an undecideable Kantian synthetic apriori proposition with analytic subject, the number and synthetic predicate, is unique, implying that no axiom originated statement about the number can be evaluated as either true, or false.
Her Majesty and Sacred Empress the Consciusness of Being
Perhaps that "something" besides the physical brain, that makes consciousness is information that might have a physical manifestation that our brain can tap into. The importance of information is observable in quantum experiments.
This is all very interesting but how does coffee fit in?
He is absolutely right, not that he needed my confirmation. The proof comes many times in the way we understand things, and our understanding of things is neither computable, nor something that we could always provide empiric evidence in support of.
@@markh7484 You are asking me to provide evidence for what I said, as Penrose did, could not be provided evidence for, as in "non-computable"? On that note, don't you think you should be the one to provide evidence for your claim that how we end up understanding things is computable. Show us the records. I will not hold my breath.
Consciousness is all that is ,🌠
What Am I? Answer: " I Am " that which allows me to know that " I Am " therefore I Am a unit of self-awareness because to be aware is to be " self-aware " therefore self-awareness is consciousness.
I'm not a Mathematician. Of course there's a discrepancy in our computations in trying to figure out human consciousness. Maybe we're asking the wrong questions? Who are we as a human entity to have consciousness. Does consciousness have a mathematical equation, and if not, why? To many variables?
I agree, if consciousness is an equation, then it is purely physical. My problem is the feeling and awareness we seem to have, how some combinations of atoms create this "Feeling"? You can explain to me how neurons and neurotransmitters travel and communicate, but you can never tell me how the feeling is produced.
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Our spirit knows. That's probably the missing equation because it was never meant to be found. Maybe why time doesn't exist in near death experiences. Maybe why space aliens can go great distances, they can bypass the equation of relativity.
@@razony Maybe, there are so many things we don't understand, life is truly strange.
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Yup.
Consciousness is the terminus of the observation.
Consciousness is a mystery so I am pleased that scientists like Roger Penrose don’t right off the great mystery that in itself is part of the information or quantum wave function that the universe is, which begs the question is consciousness fundamental to the universe as physicist Paul Davies said in his book ‘ The Demon In The Machine’ ? I think very likely so.
Ramana Maharishi had his Way to explain what co(n)-science is
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Einstein said 'Imagination is more important than knowledge' which is very concise. I feel like I could add to it by saying that there are 2 sets, the reality set for our universe and our consciousness's ability to understand or make use of the imaginary set. Where does this imaginary set come form and why does it exist in our brains and nowhere else. The imaginary set also seems much larger, so if its infinite it should be a bigger infinity than the reality set. It doesn't seem logical its there for nothing or just as a model for predictions. I believe its a way this universe is representing those sets but I don't know if its a requirement or just because its possible, therefor it exists.
Seems like a long time before humans will actually figure out if true conscious AI is possible.
The fruit fly brain was recently completely mapped and found to have about 3000 neurons. Several researchers have studied whether the fruit fly demonstrates consciousness as defined by self-awareness and problem solving and concluded that fruit fly shows consciousness. It would seem that the definition of consciousness should be species dependent. The philosophical question seems to start from an abstract position that is lost in the world of reality and therefore difficult to comprehend.
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We start with perception >>> Awareness >>>Cognition >>>The Ambient (container)
like an onion that vibrates in tune with the Universe
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Consciousness is a Farsi word "کنجکاویست knonch-kavist" which means "Curiosity".
Consciousness is an embrace of what is. It is an openness to what is. It is acceptance of what is.
The pupil of an eye is a good analogy for consciousness. It is an opening, gap, or space which allows light (“what is”) into the brain. A narrow consciousness allows only a small amount in, whereas a wide, open consciousness allows a lot more in.
When a person is highly conscious, they are not limiting what they are letting in. The are fully open to receiving what is.
Again, to speak metaphorically, a highly conscious person is someone who has their arms wide open. And it’s no coincidence that there are many images of Christ, for example, with his arms open. The most poignant of these is his arms wide open whilst hanging on a cross and suffering.
That is the challenge. We tend to want consciousness so as to be able to understand why suffering exists or why there is a problem somewhere. We think if we have the understanding, then we can arrange circumstances so that the suffering or problem ceases.
But true consciousness embraces suffering. It embraces everything. It embraces what is. It accepts all without limitation or conditions.
It is only when we are willing to accept all of what is, are we then able to understand it.
As Penrose says, consciousness is not computational. To become conscious, we need to allow ourselves to be impressed upon or to receive thought or receive understanding. We need to be open and receive the light that passes through the pupil. That light is the light of consciousness.
Continuing with this analogy, it could be said that consciousness or light exists outside of the brain or outside of the self (actually, it is around the self and embraces the self) and our brain or self is affected by the light or consciousness it receives from the outside.
An open mind is impacted by the consciousness it lets in, and the person’s own thoughts align themselves to (or become similar to) the consciousness which has been received. As the thoughts within the self become more and more similar to the consciousness which has been received, the person experiences a greater level of understanding within themselves.
Our soul is that which is conscious, and our soul is of God and of all consciousness. It is the soul which enlightens the mind of the self.
Contrary to what many people believe, the brain does not engender greater consciousness. In fact, the brain acts as a limitation or barrier to consciousness. It is a blindfold over the pupil which lets in the light of consciousness.
The brain is capable of repeated thinking or thoughts along the same lines. When we have very fixed and rigid beliefs or expectations, for example, we are incapable of accepting and seeing something which is contrary to those beliefs and expectations.
The brain is computational, and its penchant for continually computing along particular lines actually hinders consciousness. A closed mind or fixed mind cannot see beyond what it already knows. It cannot let in the light of consciousness of the soul.
For a person to become more conscious, they must meditate, sleep, or in some way release themselves from their usual thinking processes (for example, some drugs can do it too).
I know it sounds back-to-front, but, when you’re asleep, you are more conscious than when you are awake. When you’re awake, your thoughts and beliefs blindfold you and limit what you’re capable of accepting and seeing.
As humans, we go through a repeating cycle or rhythm of awake (blindfolded/unconscious), sleep (conscious), awake (blindfolded/unconscious), sleep (conscious). The main purpose of this rhythm or cycle of unconsciousness and consciousness is that such a rhythm leads to an expansion of consciousness.
If we were always fully conscious or existed only as a conscious soul, then there would be no need or desire to know more or become conscious of more. However, by having a human form and experiencing ignorance/blindfoldedness/unconsciousness whilst being awake, then out of that is born a desire to know more. That desire to know more ultimately leads to an expansion of consciousness.
Human beings are, therefore, at the "leading edge" or "outer edge" of consciousness, where new consciousness is emerging.
Understanding is a gleam of consciousness, which is the absolute truth. It is beyond the realm of science, which is a relative truth.