What is the Stream of Consciousness?
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- The stream of consciousness refers to the passage of many thousands of images and ideas through our minds every day, very few of which we manage to arrest and examine in any detail. Accurate self-knowledge depends on patiently sitting on the bank of the stream of consciousness - identifying and extracting insights.
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“One of the hardest things to describe or to be properly aware of is what it feels like to be inside our own minds: the second-by-second flow of images, words, feelings and sounds inside our heads that philosophers call our ‘consciousness’…”
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That's what I love about meditation. Being able to just sit back and listen to what's going on in your mind. It's really fascinating.
Hey Joe!
Think you got meditation backwards. The point is to not think about shit.
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 there are different kinds of meditation
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 actually that’s not the goal of meditation. A critical part of meditation is to observe your thoughts and let them pass. It’s how we can bring our meditation practice into everyday life by ‘noting’ our thoughts and emotions and observing them and letting them pass like third party observer so not to be overcome by them.
@@ZameerHJ i feel like i already do that looking for things to think about all the time to avoid boredom, but was under the impression that fearing boredom was the problem.
"If he loves me, he'll make the first move"
And both thought the same.
The End
Love is about appreciation, not a thing given conditions.
+Chuck Norris
I translated it form spanish "si me gusta me va a hablar" which applies to both male and female, but since theres no gender neutral term for the second person, i had to go with he
Absolutely agreed. Conditions shouldn't have anything to do with it.
And what is appreciation other than giving conditions???
Nmmes Wey gay love story, eh?
The funny thing is that i had to rewind this video at least 5 times, because i kept switching my mind to other topics :)
SAME
HA! Yes. I missed parts as if the video had paused.
I was literally tripping on this awesome video for like 40-50 good minutes.
+Akash Vedi you look like dj Khalid
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Is anyone else constantly aware of their own consciousness? Like throughout the day, whatever you're doing, you are so highly aware of how your brain is processing everything that you can't make room for things like emotions. This usually results in a complete indifference to anything or anyone's perception of you. I think this makes me come across as either very aloof or intimidatingly serious in real life.
Please tell me I'm not alone xD
i am also have been in similar situation. later i perceive this as "one step to rebirth", at first i feel that this limiting me. that moment when i judge myself as an aloof or unemotional, thats when the ego comes in. with that, i put on a "mask" in which i am aware all the time. so no more judging myself as i am aware that this "mask" is always changing.
It’s a Dream Theater song, with a fast solo played by a great guitarist, John Petrucci.
It was released on the 2003 album, “Train of Thought”.
My guy
Makes me feel old
Perfect. Freud said " that we are more conscious when we are sleeping." What a perfect timing. Yesterday I wrote about how entangled we are to objects in our consciousness. We need to pay close attention and drop one by one, and just feel the emptiness that fulfill us. But we tend to like being entertained.
I wonder when we actually started to speak to ourselves inside our mind. I mean, the first word for many of us maybe mama or baba or whatever. I always wondered what exactly was the moment when I first actually spoke using language. When I first actually thought of something or someone in a constructive way that can be expressed.... When does it occur? Fetal life? Infant? If so, what language was it... Does it have any influence?
+Farhan Ishrak Ahmed
Good post.
Most people don't speak to themselves, not in well constructed, coherent sentences. If you are having coherent conversations with yourself on a frequent basis, you may be developing a multiple personality disorder.
John Doe oh shit, is that what it is? Noooooo! lol
+John Doe if that was the case half the world will be mad, artists, poets, scientists, every normal human being has a voice in their head. Highly intelligent than their outside image. What you are suggesting isn't what I am talking about here.... Those are delusional thoughts which have no physical basis. For example, a person with OCD (where repeated thoughts come for example) doesn't necessarily mean he or she have a multiple personality disorder... You might have taken my statement in a different angle
+Farhan Ishrak Ahmed they mean full conversations. You don't converse. You have a sort of output as you go along your thought process but that is by no means complete or a conversation
I was just listening to Dream Theater then this suddenly shows up, now I'm interested.
Bruh same
What's a good song by Dream Theater?
Stream of Consciousness is my favorite song from them
@@Taylor.h they have a ton of amazing songs I would recommend listening to images and words the album, scenes from a memory, a change of seasons, six degrees of inter turbulence, and for songs stream of consciousness, illumination theory, nightmare to remember
Religion is believing in someone else's experience, Spirituality is having your own.
Exceptional comment.
nice!
Nice
don't let religion distract u. being obedience to the MOST HIGH is what matters. he sent his Son Christ to show us the path to live a good life in peace and happiness. Christ loved everyone he help everyone he cared for everyone. what he did for you and me no one else would do not even your best friend not even your mom. he gave up his life so that we would avoid evil and wickedness. he showed us how doing good to people brings happiness to ourself and people. he died for what we wanted love peace and happiness. Christ love you my brother. I strongly recommend you to watch a video about Jesus to see what he had to go through for us. I think everyone in this world should know the truth about Jesus Christ
God is real don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
tell jesus to quit bitchin this isnt a fuckin hotline
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Haha, I was writing a story and realized how the thoughts of my characters are so clear, calm, and concise. In reality a person's mind is all over the place. It was just a joyful feeling to have others acknowledge that.
So, the breaking bad's characters are extremely, realistic ever existed.
I would like to take this time to say thank you for being apart of my life and all of the other viewers. I got to "learn" so much about my self through your well articulated perspective and I just wanted to say that this organization is making such a positive impact.
Its a Dream Theater song
On point
+Javier Sánchez lol
***** It's a Trey Songz Song
it's all the dance of eternity bruh
I was looking for this , Thank you
I have just logged in to honestly say that there wouldn't be a video explaining the stream of consciousness technique both practically and technically. Thank you so much for giving your time to prepare such an explanation. Please do not stop releasing these kinds of videos. It even gave me goosebumps while watching because the video is so sincere and easily-understandable.
Make a video on how psychedelics works in the brain
Crash Course or SciShow might be a resource for that.
We don't know. I mean we can observe what happens, but we don't know why they do what they do because we don't know how the brain works fundamentally.
Johns Hopkins University was conducting interesting studies , which they were finding to be the best treatment for numerous problems (OCD, depression etc)
Leo Gura has videos on that, u can check out his channel
For specifically psychedelic questions, check out PsychedSubstance, he explains everything very well
I can't believe I just now discovered this channel! Amazing material keep it coming!
I've been thinking a lot about the difference between people who form their own ideas and people who mostly just absorb ideas from the outside. This video covers it quite well. (:
I feel like I'm one of those who absorb ideas from others, I find it extremely difficult to form ideas. When I sit down to think about things, I feel like my mind is exploding due to me thinking about a million things at once. I hope I'm not the only one on this boat
i form my own ideas but i can't control my thinking
@@raza838 life is imitation
Do a video on how marijuana can change the way your thoughts fire!
When I smoke, I'm able to intuitively understand concepts that I struggle to get when sober. I get constant "epiphanies" and "eureka!" Moments.
But then I have a hard time holding on to those thought processes long term. I'll forget about the idea once I sober up and won't remember it until I get high again....once I light up I tend to get those same thought processes back that I had last time I got high.
Since I started smoking 2 years ago, I have become more connected with my emotions and have gained the ability to think objectively about things....empathy is a huge thing I've gained as well. I can actually "feel" what the people around me feel. I can pick up on things/details that I never would have given much thought to.
Weed is awesome. I'm hungry.
It's a really interesting topic. I guess the thing is Alain might like to talk about things he's had personal experience with; I really have no idea if he's ever done weed or not. But it's a good topic.. I feel that I benefited immensely from a terrible weed experience full of anxiety where I thought I was going to die, in a similar (maybe smaller) way that bad psychedelic trips can promote growth and self exploration. Not that I haven't had good weed experiences. For me it's too challenging to partake in regularly so I'm sure it changes drastically with different psychologies.
seemed like I was in my subconscious mind whenever I smoked. Noticing everything, having an extremely short attention span, yet can think deeply.
....before I quit. It changes the adolescent brain. (hippocampus)
whenever i had these "eureka" moments, I would write them down. then when I read them when I was sober these epiphanies didn't make much sense (but some did at least somewhat), but it made 100% perfect sense while I was high.
One time I got so high I thought I knew the truth to everything. I kept telling my friend that I knew everything. And because of that, the government was gonna kill me. Because they knew somehow.
This can be true - but quite often those 'eureka!' moments are just a feeling rather than a tangible idea. It is possible to think outside the box and solve problems with weed though, don't get me wrong. It's just important not to lie to ones self in order to see truth.
On my god this guy can get me to belive in scientology with that voice
i don't think scientology is entirely a belief, per se.
'per se'
I feel like when having an anxiety attack, it's like all of the things going through your conscience are being heard, seen and felt all at once, rather than just focusing on one at a time
Just had anxiety attack recently and I agree with you. It's like your mind is going into overdrive.
That's why it's called "overwhelm".
***** Ok.
This video speaks to me SO MUCH. I've made this year's big personal project 'Introspection 2016' because I had woken up one day paralysed with the thought that everything that I thought I valued and identified with was built from, as you say, 'received ideas' (from social media trash and hyper-idealistic films and literature) that may be, in fact, incongruous with my 'true self'. I've been struggling so much to try and tease out ideas from my consciousness - everything feels chaotic and hazy at the same time.
Really, a lot is being said here -- more a prefatory. Gently reminding us of the unfiltered preconscious, responsible for so much of who we are perceived by others to be. I wonder what the School of Life and my fellow 'peripatetics', would think of a quote from a recent Jason Silva piece: "Religion was rehearsal for our own ambition".
You have a link for that quote in context? Searching it in google comes up only with this video as a result :(
i would say meditation. first you practice sitting still and breathing, then you practice just becoming aware of your thoughts, then you practice a merger of those two lessons to relax the mind. a calmer mind is easier to read, understand and direct.
I think it implies that we created God only to later become gods ourselves. I like the idea.
+Nicolás97 nice. We defined God, and we will become the definition.
leavy I should have known better [citation needed]. It wasn't from the pen in this case, rather Silva's recent video, right here on youtube -- The hidden truth about technology.
Are dreams just the recalling of these fractured memories and thoughts that we have? Is this why dreams are so incoherent?
Bro, in my own conscience am I thinking in English or am I just thinking? Do I need a language to comprehend thoughts? Wtf?!? Am I just really stoned, or what?
To comprehend? Probably not. Language is needed to transfer and exchange thoughts outside our heads. Unfortunately, evolution didn't provide us with ability of direct thought exchange, so we have to use written/spoken language as crude and limited substitution.
+5even5eals I meant to ask, do I need language to comprehend my own thoughts
+5even5eals I'm fully understand that I can't communicate with my thoughts lol
You can think both in images and words. In first case, you don't need language, in second - you need one.
+5even5eals so what if I was blind before language. You'd be thinking in textures and shapes?
I draw animation in a stream of consciousness state. I like to let one drawing evolve into the next, morphing from one scene into another.
0:10 wait now it's a double Dream Theater reference
Lmao, they are hinting something
Mr. Anselmo Ha
Mr. Anselmo did you get here from searching for dt’s stream of consciousness as I did?
Nice i thought im the only metal head!
@@hugocatt867 yep XD
I like how the art direction is evolving, it seems less chaotic and marries the words to the visuals well...
Just a few moments before falling asleep, with my eyes closed, even I have these random stream of thoughts one after the other. I think that's my subconscious mind taking control. Is that normal?
In such state you can also experience short visions and sounds which are perceived as extremely real. It's called hypnogogic hallucinations and it's totally normal.
No, it's not normal, you guys should see a Doctor about those hallucinations!
+PushMyCarr Oh come on dude. Could you at least read about what Hypnagogia is?
5even5eals I'm trolling you guys!
What's normal? Is insanity doing the same thing and expecting different results? Key to the answer of your question is you where just falling asleep.
wow, meditation really did help, I completely forgot what it was like to have a mind that was moving at that rate/speed and that other people are still in that state where self introspection isnt even viable, and therefore their minds are usually turned outward, seriously....just give yourself some time and dive into yourselves, its well worth it.
Great videos! I'd love to see a "How to show people you appreciate them"-video. Thank you!
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*These* are the kinds of lessons all of us should've had on school.
Shut up
Anyone who believes consciousness resides in the brain never took the time to get know ones self. The brain like an arm or a leg or an organ. It is a tool that are consciousness use to navigate through this 3 dimensional realm.
Nice
youve not the slightest idea what youre talking about. read a little neuroscience you arrogent fool.
Sebastian, can you explain what YOU are talking about? How in any way can neuroscience disprove this statement?
+gopetogle almost no one who studies this thinks conciousness somehow functions outside of the brain.
Ok, it's a very esoteric topic so I shan't argue although I disagree with you
One of my favorite videos the School of Life has done. Alain is such a wise modern philosopher and I feel lucky to be concurrent with him.
Thank you so very much for this video. I've read stream of consciousness before and have always identified it as some sort of frenzied episode the character is experiencing which doesn't clearly illustrate how one would normally think under rational conditions. But thank you for pointing out it is the state of our minds almost constantly. It now seems so obvious to me why its so stressful to try to organize my thoughts along an erect and painfully narrow path when they are anything but. Allowing my thoughts to run free might be the most liberating and fulfilling thing I can imagine doing in a long time, thank you for that.
Great videos, this is why I stopped worrying poetry many years ago. It started feeling unexpressive of my own feelings.
writing*
Another example of stream of conciousness being used in literature is Virginia Woolf's writings, specifically "To the Lighthouse."
‘To the Lighthouse’ was beautiful and more coherent than Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’.
@@margo3367 Her work is stream of consciousness but it doesn't really capture the process of thought which Ulysses does. Ulysses is a masterful entrance to each character's mind directly, no filter. But Woolf acts as the narrator who reports on and filters the thoughts the characters are having which is a degree removed from them. What you enjoy more is a matter of taste, but there's no doubt that Joyce actually does the thing called stream of consciousness better (better than anyone)
It's "But this was one way of knowing people, she thought: to know the outline, not the detail, to sit in one's garden and look at the slopes of a hill running purple down into the distant heather" (Woolf) vs "Wife locked up at home, skeleton in the cupboard. Allow me to introduce my. Then they trot you out some kind of nondescript, wouldn't know what to call her. Always see a fellow's weak point in his wife. Still there's destiny in it" (Joyce)
Fun fact about 90 % of our thoughs during the day are completely useless and extremly draining of energy.
I think this video isn't entirely accurate of the workings of the mindstream, at least by my observations and my understanding of it. Sure, the mind may wander a lot, especially when you're bored and not doing anything, but this video makes it seem that the mind is completely incapable of focusing on one topic for any length of time. It makes it seem like we've all got ADD. It's entirely possible to have a logical progression of thoughts, especially when you're focused, just like that man in the train worried about his political career.
It's when you're unfocused that these thoughts start to wander more wildly. When you're just laying in bed, or listening to a boring lecture, your thoughts will drift from last nights dinner to cats to funny cartoons to sexual fantasies. But this is not our nature 100% of the time.
It's a really good Dream Theater song. :)
Yes!
Joyce's Ulysses (1922) is by no means the first instance in which the 'stream of consciousness' technique is deployed in literature. His 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (1916) is, generally, considered the first, although there are many late nineteenth-century writers who anticipate the technique. Personally, I consider Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall' (1917) to be the one of the finest early uses of this narrative device.
My mind is mainly analysing and examining pre-packaged content from outside. The way you describe thoughts in this video, it doesn't resonate. They don't flit by quickly, they don't change with no chain of logic... and sometimes there are no thoughs at all, when I'm "receiving" the outside content (patterns and impressions that ARE random and do change quickly).
How does one go about developing the "art of introspection"? My mind has a constant stream of "noise" that seems to pervade my every moment. Trying to divide it up into smaller items to mull over never really works as the "noise" never stops flowing. It seems the quieter my environment, the louder my mind becomes. Almost as it's trying to get my attention with a train horn instead of a gentle nudge, and the train horn becomes all I hear.
Meditation will help you slowww down the thoughts ..keeping your mind still for even 5 mins everyday will help..or yoga, Also cut down your TV viewing, walk in nature everyday , and yes write 1 page everyday in the morning first thing to clear your head. Some ideas !
Do weights. It's one of the best routes for calmness and wisdom.
That's why I'm almost never without music on my ears.
Meditation will help you learn to concentrate on one thing at a time.
You need meditation. You're welcome
We are all bugs in the cosmos. A persons feelings of envy, jealousy and hate are all insignificant considering how short our lives truly are. That's why we should cherish what time we have and live in peace. I sometimes cant fathom how truly blessed I am to be alive. I'm Irish by the way so having a good time is guaranteed. Keep the good times going.
You people make me feel so much better thank you so much for your work
Before a head injury about a year and a half ago, my stream of consciousness clipped along at a rapid pace, jumping from idea to idea, and I was aware of it, the disjointed half-concepts. Now my thoughts do not move as they used to. I can still feel the stream of ideas, but it's as though my mind's eye has gone dull. It's gotten better. I don't think it's healed.
What's kind of wild is I lived with monks and then developed these things over time. And it's changed my life. I'm almost so mindful that it changed my mind to such a degree I don't know what I think at all. It's made things wild. Even changes in my own consciousness.
i think too much i think lol
when someone asks me how im feeling i get lost easily just in the thought of the question, enough it takes me longer than normal to think of a reply
i try to be an open book but this video makes sense as to why it becomes difficult
trying to define/apply logic to things is what i do and trying to figure out within a split second how to define something so vast for so many different types of minds is almost exhausting
So who and what we really are, is a director of our streams of consciousness. That inner spark of energy and positive intention. Without our memories and knowledge we are in our purest form.
Have to say, this channel is consistently brilliant.
Not just words or images, but a full multisensory experience too of sounds, touch, smelll, taste etc, almost dream like perse, good vid guys!
Something about ideas lying "prepackaged in the reception room of our minds," and I thought: poetry. What an enchanting image!
All of this reminds me of Robin Williams's comedy. He verbally expressed everything, or at least a large portion of what was going on inside his mind. He would strike sentence after sentence with lightning speed discussing utterly different topics in a way that was simply hilarious. He was articulate in his expression and free of any boundries so he'd keep going on and on because the audience always loved it. For the normal person it's hard to keep up with the pase and catch everything even after replaying the video of him being interviewed a couple times. And there he was, jumping from subject to subject, changing his facial expression, voice and accent to make an impression, joining a dialogue with himself and never running out of things to say. Quite extraordinary.
OMG, I have ADHD and I thought this was exclusive to us (With ADHD), But now I realize thats just another strange part of being human... Awsome!
I was always confused as to what 'Stream of Consciousness' really meant while studying Modernist Literature. This video was extremely helpful! Thanks...
Another awesome video, as per usual on this channel! Thumbs up!
I think it says something about you that on literally all of your videos there's a comment on how amazing your channel is.
I wish they would do an episode regarding psychedelics and the mind.
This video describes me, not at all, the average person yes, but I'm not the average person, I don't waste my thoughts on mundane trivia.
Thank you very, I actually found this video an insult to my intellect, before any out there who happen to read my comment and blow their tops, realise that my comments are my opinion.
+ManiacalO2 *Much
What are your thoughts then?
Everything is relevant in order to achieve a holistic understanding of reality.
Who takes care of your everyday for you?
stream of consciousness is one of dream theater's song for sure
Stream of consciousness, you say... Hmm, to me the only moment I sort of experience this is when I'm writing. Suddenly, there are so many things to write about and so many perspectives on a given issue so I end up rambling in a more or less clear way. This often happens when I'm having a conversation with someone online and because there's so many things I want to mention I sometimes feel like I'm thinking very forward and my response turns into a monologue or a letter. It's weird and can be bothersome, because at some point it gets tiring as much as it's satisfying.
Compare that to my mind which is a quite place in general, almost like I had no unconscious thoughts flowing through it except of random earworms maybe. It literally takes a conscious effort to think, some starting point - otherwise my mind will stay quiet. I feel that because I've been not very talkative person for most of years, when I start to write and so at lenght, it's my mind trying to catch up on thinking so to speak...
It's better just to observe the chaos than try to understand it.
really well explained. The best way to "master introspection" in order to pick out the nuggets of gold from amongst our stream of consciousness is through meditation. That clears the mind of some of the 'chaff' so that when we do sit down to really think about something it's easier to know and access our original thought. It does take time, patience and perseverance. But it's worth it.
great video. been feeling a little lost in my own mind these few days, and thinking a lot about the complexity of the human mind. for me, what's hardest to pin down in my mind is emotion and general feeling - because most of the time it's not audio or images that flashes in my mind, it's words and feelings.
Love Ulysses by the way, and Joyce of ofc a literary genius.
AT the moment i,m full of feelings ,,but i am thankful , thankful to the voice , thankful for the consciousness , thankful to the Team :The School Of life .
I am an old (natural) lucid dreamer and this subject always intrigues me with reference to lucid dreaming. One would think being able to change one's environment at will and conjure up any character, past or present that one has total control of the mind. The truth is, I almost never know what these characters would do or say. They all suppose to be of my mind after all.
hmmm my steam of consciousness seems quite calm
I've always wondered if I never learned an audible language, how would I think? How would I make decisions? Interesting thought.
You guys are the freaking best channel on UA-cam. Thank you
Well i think it's important to see our capacity of meditate or paying attention to our thoughts,
knowing how to feel and knowing how to think on different situations, for me
this is a key of a conscious and happy life... being alive is been on a
constant knowledge of what we are, what we can do, and more importantly what we believe
Very informative.
I think the only moment our "stream of consciousness" becomes calm is when we're in awe about something. Maybe when we're so overwhelmed and amazed (absorbing), everything else goes blank. Or maybe I'm just rambling lol
James Joyce's attempt at writing streams of consciousness into his stories reminds me a lot of my own attempts to orate my own stream of consciousness when I have the privacy to do so. Topics change quickly, are uncensored, more emotionally biased/based etc. Meanwhile when I try to mentally observe my stream of consciousness it's much more chaotic, obviously more illustrated/animated, and thoughts and ideas in both picture and language form seem to overlap, occurring simultaneously, and "bump into each other" in all of the chaos.
Psychedelics basically help you do this. They focus your attentions inwards and help you detach in some way that you're able to analyse that stream of consciousness and take in the information, both from within your mind and from the external world. The hallucinating factor of psychedelics is in actuality your own mind processing and molding the visual input to make sense of what it is seeing. It draws from past experience to actively assess the information that is receiving in the current moment or present. This is drawn from my experience with psychedelics, in no way shape or form am i implying this to be true to for others, this just my opinion.
huh, I never really thought my mind was that disjointed; I usually talk to myself in my head when I'm thinking and if i'm not my thoughts are usually flatlined (are at least I believe them to be) or when I'm engaged in something that doesn't require thought.
i was with you up to the last bit. i think the only honest conclusion from what your admirably clear presentation says is that we do not 'really feel' anything. it's more that we have to try to be a reasonable representative of the varied, contradictory voices that we contain
If only it were that simple. I always have a song playing in my head even if i don't like it, I constantly think about something funny or a serious situation regardless of the subject, and It sometimes takes me to places i don't like. It doesn't do anything for me, so I'm going to value the power of shutting my brain off with entertainment and sleep.
What he is portraying is not consciousness... it's your mind projecting itself onto you. Which you do when wandering off or when dreaming, visualizing... 'being in your mind'. It's "the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings". So consciousness is the AWARENESS of what he is describing. It's a big difference.
Has anyone read 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle? Truly a liberating read about consciousness and the ego :-)
The problem is that we have no free will in what our intuitions and feelings are. If you are lucky and your biological makeup and your base intuitions/desires and talents match up with societal values and expectations then you are set to have a relatively internally conflict free life allowing your energies to pursue your true desires and happiness with the full sanction of society.
What happens when you are not so lucky with the biological lottery? Pedophiles have desires that they do not choose and they seem to be prevalent and persistent in their psychological makeup. They are given desires that can not be fulfilled and are forced to use their energy either fighting these desires or seeking surreptitious ways of fulfilling them. The same can be said of drug addicts/alchoholics. I can not pass judgement on people that have desires that I do not have to deal with. I did not choose my desires, they simply just are. I just see my life and my true self and desires as a lucky throw of the random dice of the universe, no free will involved.
Free the pedos!
I sure hope that's the case, makes looking at the world 1000x easier.
So if all a person desires is there favorite pet should we extend marriage equality to them because they were born that wa
He's not saying that at all. He's saying that no-one chooses how they "feel" about things, not that there is no such thing as self-control.
I think what you're left with in that case then, ie. when you're well aware that you didn't choose your life, your preferences, or your inclinations, is gathering up the best tools possible for handling who and what you are in a constructive manner. So much of fate really comes down to the question of how many of your options are you aware of, which are the best options, will internal pressures allow you to exercise those options, etc.. It's part of why I really think people need to focus a lot more on medicinal uses of imagination and psychology - it makes a big difference in terms of outcomes.
His stream of consciousness comment went on and on. He paused, thinking to himself of the readers of his comment, and how many of them might be read his comment while completely naked, or eating pies, perhaps chicken or that nice curried vegetable that he liked. It doesn't matter, he thought, there were few of them that would bother to hit 'Read more' , and the chances of finding one of them that was naked, eating a chicken of curried vegetable pie were slim. Even more slim was the chance of them replying. He felt depressed, and took another bite of his own pie. He had written this same comment 3.14 times. That was enough, he thought, as his pie repeated on him.
I listen to him when I'm eating, and everything tastes more exquisite.
I want to love this video! Not just like it! 💛💛💛
wow I've been watching school of life videos for a while, but this is by far the best one i've seen.
Give us a video about Alan watts and/or ideas about eastern enlightenment please!
If I am my left foot, then I am the sun
I have aphantasia, my stream of consciousness has no images or movies, only endless black void. I can only think in words and abstract concepts
How does this affect you? I can't imagine that
Cas Ket To be honest, I don't really know. I've been this way for as long as I can remember. The worst part about it is definitely not being able to remember the faces of loved ones I've lost. On the flipside of that, I can't re-live traumatic memories.
It's very hard to explain to others what this is like
You are unable to visualize an object in mind?
I imagine it would be like trying to "visualize" a smell. For instance, when you are making cookies, you easily recognize that smell of cookies. On the other hand, trying to "remember" what cookies smell like on your own is impossible. You can't actually experience the memory of the smell in your mind. In fact, this seems to be the case for every sense except hearing and sight, which can be experienced in the mind.
I believe, Glenn, that this is what it is like for you to be unable to "see" things in your head, but correct me if I'm wrong.
FireHax0rd I actually can smell and taste cookies in my mind.
I actually never thought of the possibility that my brain was a jumble of information fluttering through my head at once. I can usually think in a coherent pattern or atleast i have been lead to this idea through media and secondary information. Thank you for the video.
Could you guys add subtitles? These auto-generated subs aren't so good. Just think about those who are learning English or even deaf people. I really love the videos. Thanks!
Probably my favorite SoL video thus far. Good Show!
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Such a great video,
I always make a point to watch these uploads. I find them to be one of the few forward thinking content producers today.
If you're fascinated by this concept you should read Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking trilogy.
i just wanna say you guys are unique and special for me. thank you guys
Im glad to hear that Im not the only one:)
My mind passes so fast
did anyone else see that BBC LOL
what is a bbc
Hmm...yes. could've sworn it was a shade of fuchsia though ❣
I think you inserted your own BBC consciousness stream into the video.
it was only a BC.
Magus Marquillin LOL!!
-What's the stream of consciousness??
No one...
Literally no one...
Me: Song!
Love these videos! Very informative and interesting to watch.
awesome Video
consciousness is such an awesome topic
meditation lets you surf the waves of consciousness. such an amazing experience
Everyone needs to experience a psychedelic trip. Something like mushrooms will let you start understanding yourself a lot greater.
+Dane Psilocybin allows you to think deeper, lose your ego, acknowledge and examine every thought your mind has. Essentially like lifting a veil off of a painting so you see not the picture, but the brush strokes, the variation of depth of the oil on the canvas, you will feel the emotions of the painter, the purpose of the message. After a psychedelic experience you will start seeing the world in a whole new light, it's still the same world but you have never before seen it in such a way.
+Theowna Hmm... I have never tried shrooms or any drugs whatsoever, but I can experience what you just described by exercising mindfulness. In addition to that, I analyze my thoughts, values and beliefs and try to understand those of other people's as well on a regular basis. Small wonder many consider me weird.
+joni jokunen I described only what is possible for me to put into words. What I experienced in my trips is well beyond words. The fact that you can think deeply freely is truly great, not many can. But I still do suggest you try a small dose of mushrooms when you feel like you want it. ✌
+Theowna all right. I'll keep that in mind haha
+joni jokunen seems like you want to make sense of the world. :) Athenewins has some nice podcasts about this, just if you want to check it out.
You can talk directly to your subconscious through an exercise. It
starts slow but it works. Lay down with your eyes closed, relax and get
into a calm state. Imagine a door in front of you. Open it and walk into
a empty white room. Across from you is a small cabinet door on the
wall. Maybe 1x1 ft. Now relax for a second and take a deep breath. Now
when you open this door you're not going to see anything inside. It's
just black. But when you do decide to open it, tell the awareness inside
a problem you're having and that you need help with it. Now walk out of
the white room and close the door.
The idea is to directly press you're most important problems onto the subconscious. The majority of people have no idea how powerful your subconscious can be when you train it to take orders.
meditation helps immensely with exploring