Joseph LeDoux - What is the Nature of the Self?

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  • @hanciwang2841
    @hanciwang2841 4 дні тому +2

    Mindblowing

  • @michaelboguski4743
    @michaelboguski4743 День тому

    Makes me think of the phrase, "a self-fulfilling prophecy", where one 'tells oneself' something, and the Self believes it to be the case.

    • @REDPUMPERNICKEL
      @REDPUMPERNICKEL 12 годин тому

      That's a bit like part of bicameral theory which says
      the learning of the word 'self' and its meaning
      initiated a chain of thoughts that culminated in
      the transformation of a non conscious bicameral mind
      into a self who is conscious.
      Easy to imagine that the one who invented the word, 'self'
      and its meaning was the first human being to become conscious.
      Also easy to imagine how the concept must have spread like a virus.
      According to the theory it took a thousand years for the virus
      to transform the entire known world.
      Jesus was born at the end of that thousand year transiliation.
      Why a boat load of conquistadors was able to
      instantly defeat a nation of two million Aztec warriors
      is transparently easily explained by the bicameral theory.
      The Aztecs were bicameral people.
      Becoming a self and conscious carries with it
      self interest and the ability to lie and cheat and steal
      and that's exactly what the conquistadors did.
      Have you seen "The Invention of Lying" film by Ricky Gervais?
      It gives a pretty good approximation of
      what a bicameral mind may have been like.

  • @REDPUMPERNICKEL
    @REDPUMPERNICKEL 4 дні тому +1

    The other important aspect of synapses is...
    synapses enable the discharge-timing-patterns of
    upstream neurons to modulate the discharge-timing-patterns of
    downstream neurons.
    (And of course loops can form to accomplish a variety of purposes,
    the timing of events for instance).
    Since neural-discharge-timing-patterns are the means by which
    brains encode representations,
    we can clearly see that
    synapses are the means by which representations intermodulate
    in the process we call thinking.
    Since one of the representations maintained by brains
    is what we refer to as 'the self',
    we can clearly see that
    the modulation of the self by other representations
    is the physical side of what we mean by the word 'conscious'.
    After all, it is my self who is conscious
    (which is the only thing my self knows with absolute certainty (à la Descartes)).
    This is closely analogous to the relationship between
    the physical existence of this very sentence
    and its brain context dependent meaning
    of which your self will have become conscious
    by the time you reach its end.

    • @evaadam3635
      @evaadam3635 4 дні тому +1

      you failed to explain why the material brain, its material neurons, its material synapses, fires a conscious choice to believe something that is not even material or is beyond physical such as faith in Supernatural Existence out of this world ?..
      ..where in your study of Physics or Natural Physical Laws that allows matter to take a break from these laws so to have free time to make a choice on its own to believe something non-physical or Supernatural GOD ?
      Generations after generations are growing Godless and IMMORAL because of people like you who spread toxic science garbage... don't you even feel any ounce of guilt at all ?
      ..dude, if it doesn't fit, you must acquit !..

    • @REDPUMPERNICKEL
      @REDPUMPERNICKEL 4 дні тому +1

      Well put.

    • @dr_shrinker
      @dr_shrinker 4 дні тому +2

      @@evaadam3635 you make valid points until you inject GOD into the discussion. No one really believes in a GOD. It doesn't make sense and isn't needed.

  • @surendrakverma555
    @surendrakverma555 4 дні тому

    Thanks 👍👍👍

  • @esorse
    @esorse 4 дні тому +1

    Potassium is-encodes? 'information' between brain cells - who depend upon oxygen fo survival - implying different chemicals?

  • @feltonhamilton21
    @feltonhamilton21 4 дні тому +1

    The five senses works together like a single cell keyboard that fits over the entire body like a glove and plays a big part in transporting duplex information through fatty tissue and to each brain neurons and all 78 organs and their individual cells, I mean simultaneously like a rolling film projector that can constantly generating body heat without a second to waste.
    The five senses are capable of spreading information through out the entire body of all 78 organs and their energy feilds simultaneously including the fingernails and teeth and hairs almost as fast as the speed of light while carrying the molecules which are already set into perspective with the five senses single hologram wave function which are simultaneously moving through the entire body of cells extremely fast and to replace old cells with a new hologram blueprint image which means the five senses single wave function has to work specifically and simultaneously on each designs and constantly change the 78 energy development foundation post departments of cells with new potential cells for stand by.
    My point is all 78 organs have to wait on the five senses to deliver a duplex of molecules in a single package to each organ cell for pick up, simultaneously and right after the other every second of a minute or faster.
    Self is the body and the mind is the energy field that controls and warm the body through neurons activities..

  • @callmeishmael3031
    @callmeishmael3031 4 дні тому

    If one side of the brain wanted to be a race car driver, and the other side wanted to be a draughtsman, what does that potentially say about free will?

  • @kallianpublico7517
    @kallianpublico7517 4 дні тому +1

    The thinking self and the skeptical self, the conscious self and the unconscious self, the soul’s consciousness? If there are three selves, three modes of consciousness, is there a discipline that can shift from one to another? Is inference an integration of at least 2 of these different selves? What happens when we integrate 3 of these selves? Do we integrate all 5 at the moment of death? Can we integrate all 5 before death? Can we shift from one side to the other?

  • @Soulartist13
    @Soulartist13 День тому

    While all this is happening, the mind is like a third-party witness. Who is in charge?

  • @williamburts3114
    @williamburts3114 4 дні тому

    I exist, and to know that you exist you have to be conscious that you exist, it is this knowing that you "be" or "am" that is the self because to be aware is to be self-aware.

  • @Normal-u5w
    @Normal-u5w 4 дні тому +1

    Only on an empty gut do we lack the capacity to imagine

  • @EverettMcLemore
    @EverettMcLemore 4 дні тому +1

    He seems to be defining consciousness as what he can observe about others: their heredity, their environment. He doesn't define it by what he can observe about himself. "Who is the observer, the witness?" That is my question, not "How does a consciousness perform?"

  • @LindsayIna-r2t
    @LindsayIna-r2t 3 дні тому

    Lewis Helen Perez Jessica Thompson Jessica

  • @peweegangloku6428
    @peweegangloku6428 4 дні тому +1

    "Our personality is spread throughout our brain."
    "Emotional aspects of information processing - how those might live underneath the level of consciousness "
    "The interpreter function of consciousness." Consciousness giving its own interpretation of happenings based on its own sphere of knowledge.
    "Obviously we need language to form the concept."
    "There is a lot underneath that makes us who we are"
    The above are not descriptions of physical stuffs of the material brain but rather something far more subtle working along with the material brain.

    • @callmeishmael3031
      @callmeishmael3031 4 дні тому +2

      Not necessarily at all. They’re all just the very complex firing synapses in the brain.

    • @peweegangloku6428
      @peweegangloku6428 4 дні тому

      @@callmeishmael3031Yours is a claim with no hint of evidence.

  • @REDPUMPERNICKEL
    @REDPUMPERNICKEL 4 дні тому

    I've edited my previous comment for clarity.

  • @iain9821
    @iain9821 4 дні тому +1

    This is not science. This is theater.

  • @infinitygame18
    @infinitygame18 3 дні тому

    DO YOU KNOW WHATS THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF HUMANS, HUMANS ARE MORE INTERESTED IN DEFINITION AND THE EGO LINKED WITH DEFINITIONS, RATHER THAN UNDERSTANDING BEYOND THE DEFINITION OR UNDERSTANDING OTHER DEFINITION OF THE SAME UNDERSTANDING, READ AGAIN AMD THAN THINK AGAIN, DEAR INTELECTUALS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PLANET EARTH NOW GOLDY HERE🙏❤️

  • @siqueirabarros
    @siqueirabarros 3 дні тому

    I wonder how on Earth did he discover that the amygdala is unconcious... 🙄🙄🧠🧠

  • @evaadam3635
    @evaadam3635 4 дні тому +1

    "What is the Nature of the Self"
    Self is not natural and so has no nature...
    It is not your physical human body, enslaved or driven by natural laws, that defines your true personal identity or your true SELF..
    It is your Freedom to BELIEVE anything for good or bad reason that exposes the fact that your "Self with Free Will to Choose" is NOT NATURAL...
    ..this truth about your "Freedom to Choose What to BELIEVE", which can not be a property of physical matter, defines your true personal identity as SUPERNATURAL which I believe is your free aware immortal soul who is a free split of the Holy Spirit...
    ..the existence of our Supernatural Free Will is the reason why we are accountable for the consequences of the free choices we make...
    ..it is also the reason why the only rational choice of belief to explain our origin is the belief in the existence of a Supernatural SOURCE, saner than believing that your Consciousness is a product of the explosion of Unconscious Rocks or Unconscious NOTHING (Bigbang) that is now leading you to stare at Darwin's Evolving IGUANA as your Original Mama looking funny..

    • @asyetundetermined
      @asyetundetermined 4 дні тому +1

      And what does this afford you, exactly?

    • @evaadam3635
      @evaadam3635 4 дні тому

      @@asyetundetermined not for me but for guiding lost souls, who are still lost, to find the right way Home..

    • @asyetundetermined
      @asyetundetermined 4 дні тому +1

      @@evaadam3635 respectfully, can you speak plainly? I am genuinely curious. What does the activity of guiding lost souls afford you? In short, why is this pursuit meaningful to you? Let’s ignore the lost souls for the moment.

    • @evaadam3635
      @evaadam3635 4 дні тому

      ​​​​@@asyetundeterminedfor sincere faithfuls like me, it is our moral duty to help lost souls find the right way home for love of God who loves all His children including the lost ones.. God wants all His lost children to return home through faith...
      If I am an atheist, why would I believe that we are all children of God for me to love and to care ... I would probably only care for myself and my own family, or not even care for my own family but care only for my own selfish self... or not even care for myself if I turn into a Godless evil self-destructive psychopath, etc etc etc... could be just like you..

    • @asyetundetermined
      @asyetundetermined 4 дні тому +1

      @@evaadam3635 you speak around yourself, but not about yourself. “What god wants”, “what if I were like you?” (extra points for being needlessly insulting here).
      You claim to be faithful. In what precisely are you entrusting this faith? You don’t seem too willing to speak to particulars or to address things seriously. I’m merely wondering what compels one to post such holy entreaties.
      What does this activity afford you, the person, not you, the proselytizer?

  • @ansleyrubarb8672
    @ansleyrubarb8672 4 дні тому

    ...What a wonderful explanation. To live, learn, science a marvelous gift. Allows being able to help many overcome life's set backs. How can one deny GOD. We are not just primordial stardust soup, just accidents happening, very sad, respectfully, ordinarychuck Hotmail... captivus brevis...you tube...Blessings...

  • @Maxwell-mv9rx
    @Maxwell-mv9rx 4 дні тому +2

    Neuroscience to know figure out make up self is true evidence with experiences proceendings . Guys keep It out show self without emperism. Talking about self is NOT serious neurosience proceendings. It is rambling. Senseless.

  • @ejazrasool7443
    @ejazrasool7443 4 дні тому +2

    What is human self? Only Quran can answer the true nature of human self and how do we get it... read the book Islam: A Challenge to Religion by G.A. Parwez...

  • @BajaJones-iq2cp
    @BajaJones-iq2cp 4 дні тому +1

    there must be courses to be this silly. this man should be selling pencils.