Is Reality a Controlled Hallucination? - with Anil Seth
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- How does our biology give rise to the experience of consciousness?
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Anil Seth argues, using innovative combinations of theory and experiment, that our brains are prediction machines inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond. Anil's new perspective on consciousness has shed light on the nature of the self, free will, the intimate relationship between being alive and being aware - and the possibility of conscious machines.
Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. He is also a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow, Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, and Co-Director of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme: From Sensation and Perception to Awareness.
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I noticed I don’t remember my dreams lately unless I wake up around 3 am and fall back to sleep . The second round dreams are vivid big time.
Totally.. With repeated scenarios but they differ slightly. 7am to 10am sleep being really hardcore vivid. Cats get me up. Lockdown no job. Plenty time to explore the dream multiverse.
I'm not sure if you have studied lucid dreaming or not, so if this is old news to you, forgive me. If you want to remember your dreams, and even be conscious during them, there are a couple things that help:
Do reality checks often during your waking days. Make sure you are not dreaming. Pinch yourself, acknowledge that reality looks like it normally does, etc.
When you lie down for the night, tell your subconscious that your dreams are important to you, and you will remember them.
When you wake up, immediately journal them.
@@Yogsothoth32 Had a great one yesterday.. Opened eyes to bedroom. Closed eyes immediately in dream world. But felt body in bed. Body had aches from work. Reality check. Open eyes bedroom, close back to dream repeated for many times over an hour. Man I was shifting dimensions at will. ❤️ The dream then needed me to stay eyes closed and I woke up to my cat licking my eyes wanting food end of hour.
@@Max_Snellink haha. I always question things when I get false wakeups. I'm always having the best day ever when I think I've woken up, then reality hits. :)
Neither do I. I don't really have them to much. Its like a data compression happens.
"Consciousness is like, a feeling or whatever."
~ Science
Lol
Consciousness is being aware that you are conscious
Well, that's the current state of science. (At least according to dr. Seth.) It's still being figured out. That is actually how creating knowledge looks like.
But if you have a better idea, you are probably welcome to write an article and have it published in a scientific journal :).
haaaaaaaaaaaaa
@@LaszloMarai Jesus!! You ever take the day off?
I feel like humans are far far less conscious of the reasons for our actions and choices than we think we are.
The academic conversion on consciousness has matured so much in the last 15 years or so. Very inspiring.
The opposite is the actual case.
I feel it this way.
@@molekulaTV yes I agree, the opposite
And yet we ‘apparently’ still know nothing compared to what we did thousands of years ago up to the dawn of our ‘creation’.
@@davidyoung7435 Done, by design. Yes, for now!
Happy are they, with eyes to see, ears to hear, and appreciate the power of pure frequency, good vibration and eternal energy.
@@theresefournier3269 Spoken like Nikola Tesla.
My brother had cancer. They put him on morphine in the hospital. He was still in a lot of pain, so I asked the nurse how much he's allowed. She gave me a figure and I said well he's really hurting, how about you give him half of the full amount. She did that, and I made sure that for the time I was there, (6 hours) that they gave him that amount on time. So 2 hours later, we're talking and he's clearly pain free.
But abruptly, h asks if there's a giant spider in the corner, near the ceiling. I looked and said, no, there's nothing there. OK, he said, then I'm hallucinating. Too much morphine can do that.
The amazing thing is, that he became aware that he WAS hallucinating, once I confirmed that there really wasn't a giant spider in the room. That blew me away.
Most drugs classified as "hallucinogen" can only produce so called pseudohallucinations - you are still aware of your enviroment and can sort out what is real and what not, be it perceived "outside" or be it your emotional state.
There are drugs producing "true hallucinations", called delirogens - people in that state are losing contact with the environment and are not able to perceive what is real and what not - it's like a state of dreaming where you are also not aware that you are asleep.
Sometimes the difference between the two states can be just the dose of drug and unfortunately either state can be produced by trauma or illness.
That's just what I've learned from popular neuroscience lectures.
Morphine usually don’t create hallucinations at all!
Because it doesn’t work on the synapses ketamine / lsd does.
Same with antidepressants.
That’s also the reason chronic pain patients are in most cases allowed to drive after examination.
I think it was a new experience for your brother and he wasn’t experienced with this. High doses can give some state between sleep and beeing awake. But that’s far from hallucinating.
But as said, if you aren’t used to this it’s scary and maybe hard to describe in the beginning.
one of the most common types of hallucinations I've heard about is ants, maggots, spiders, or generally insects that you can't physically interact with. so you can see them or "know" that they're present, but you can't quite touch them
@@markus4925 No, I consulted with a pharmacist and HE told me that yes, an overdose of morphine can do that. Especially if it's given intravenously.
When when my brother asked me about the spider, we were having a great conversation and reminiscing about some of our best fishing trips.
There was no "between sleep and being awake". We continued our conversation.
@@danielsayre3385 You can't touch them? Why? I've whacked many a spider and my cat loves it and scoops them up and eats them.
I hallucinated from a medication when I was about 13. I saw and talked to friends from school. They were completely normal looking like they were actually right there in front of me. Blew my mind that my brain could do that and gave me insight to kids having imaginary friends that are very real to them.
Maybe look into "lucid dreaming" a bit.. ;)
Not really. Kids might internally acknowledge there is no one there, but still agree that there is someone there. They won't actually see anything or anyone. They won't hear, smell, feel etc.. They just probably agree with themselves internally that the imaginary friend exists -- at least, it was like that for me.
Diphenhydramine?
You imagined not hallucinated...
@@genussmensch4683 And day dreaming
Kind of weird that matter (table, glass of water etc) in itself has no consciousness, but if you arrange materia in a certain way (our brains), consciousness sort of appears out of nowhere. A magical leap right there.
But you made an assumption that consciousness emerges from matter. Not proven. Could be other way round.
I think it’s both-consciousness is the Alpha & Omega, the I Am That I Am, represented by 0, the nothing that is something and contains the potential for everything in it, the something that is nothing…yet. From the human perspective, matter and consciousness are intertwined, inseparable-one did not come from the other because they exist (have always existed) together. Though they are philosophically separable, they are one-the ouroboros, the 0, the end and the beginning 💫
@@bbbf09 i think that is what gustav is suggesting - its so bizarre -- something weird is up
It doesn't appear out of nowhere it comes from other dimensions,if s baby is created at a certain moment the soul comes in and it comes from other reality's, when we die that soul goes back to where it came from
IMHO, I think it's also an assumption when saying "table, glass of water etc" in itself has no consciousness,". This type of assumption and all other science/philosophy based upon the assumption of "i can't observe it, ergo it doesn't exist." frustrates me.
"Even the perception of whether things feel real can change"....I've had depersonalization/derealization for the last 9 monthes, and, let me tell you, that...that right there, is very true
schizoprenia?
@@nanasakyi6402 Identity issues....
@@heresjohnny602 oh, I got confused. explain a little more
@@nanasakyi6402 Too much emotional and or physical trauma makes the brain close down, people having an attack will often seem spaced out or like they're somewhere else...it's a symptom of anxiety but can also be part of dissociative identity disorder also known as multiple personality disorder...it leaves you feeling abit like you are walking around in a dream where of course what you think to be real often changes.
personally I think the person is describing an existential crisis where you're healthy but extremely conflicted about your purpose in the world. 🤔
@@heresjohnny602 ah, wise and insightful words my friend. Thank you for the information!
After numerous surgeries where I not only remembered all the conversations, personal talk and also feeling horrific pain while under anesthesia, I was put through a series of sleep studies and brain scans. During a back surgery, I vividly remember their conversations about which music to play and nicknames used. The first cut approx 1/2 inch long felt like the blade was red hot. I heard "did you see that?" followed by " I think he is still in there." Same with upper and lower GI checks. I had a blood clot removed from my leg and it was drug cartel level pains levels. The one drug given that is suppose to reduce the brains ability to remember but allows you to answer basic questions has ZERO effect.
The sleep studies revealed I have severe apnea and unusual rem patterns. I can also remember dreams forever and have learned to control them. I can begin where I left off from the last dream as if it is a long story. I really don't think "they" understand consciousness at all.
That’s amazing, I experience deja vu quite a lot, almost feels like simulation theory that’s been kicked around the internet. I’ve also had a NDE at the age of 18 months old, I climbed over a rail on the second floor and dropped to the hardwood floor, I was in and out, I remember the smelling salts that was gave to me, I can also remember the paramedics and the sirens to, and remember them saying I was going into shock. It almost was like a movie was playing out, after that either I was hallucinating or I really didn’t see y’all beings of blue light, I could also hear and understand what they were saying, at the same time I could also hear the surgeons talking to. It felt like a dream but it wasn’t, I’m 50 now, and here lately I been having a lot of deja vu occurrences, when those happen its almost like a movie that plays out, sorta feels like I’m dreaming but I’m not.
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Remembering dreams forever and feeling excruciating pain under full anesthesia.. that’s the worst superpower I ever heard of 😆
I dont agree with this man that consciousness evolved.
Consciousness has always been here and came before any material things.
@@GuidetteExpert
The materialistic and deterministic religion is powerful.
@@GuidetteExpert Change is the only constant. If consciousnesses is unable to evolve, it will be domed. However, if you find this statement not to be true at all, then ask yourself the reason why consciousnesses choose to not evolve.
This massaged my brain just the way I like. Really got me thinking about the autistic brain vs the neurotypical brain. Also knowing my brain is different from the majority makes me doubt if I will experience things the same as others. If I would stand in line to do the rubber hand experiment I would get less and less likely to trust that the experiment would work on me as I witnessed more and more people reacting accordingly to the hypothesis.
I also really liked the mention of how noticing change is it’s own sense of perceptiom in a way. My brain is wired to be hyper aware of change because it gives me anxiety. People with autism also often has lower or higher interoception. The dynamic feeling of existing in my body is a constant change of signals and the need and stress involved with keeping it balanced to avoid highs and lows because it steals all my attention is a nightmare. I often find myself wishing I was a robot just in order to be able to not get stuck in the perception of my own biology so that I can be present and fully involved in my surroundings. I am hyper aware of everything stimulating my senses both from my inner and my outer and since I can’t filter out or choose what to focus on life is generally extremely overwhelving for me and it has me drained and almost burned out as a baseline state. This leads to a lot of isolation with the occational insanely vibrant interaction with people and the world.
Were you trained by some professional to manage this constant fight for actively directing your attention?
Were you diagnosed?
I myself have for some reason a rather rigid attention focus. Perhaps otherwise I wouldn't be able to focus at all.
Maybe activities like the rubberhand experiment would help you to overcome somewhat your anxiety at least regarding the changes your body is involved in.
What are those changes in your everyday surroundings which you can tolerate? Isn't there a kind of desensitizing therapy for this?
@@Littleprinceleon good questions. I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 26 so I have kind of trained myself until then to ignore my own needs as I didn’t understand them.
How much I can tolerate is directly tied to how much ”brain energy” I have. If I’m overwhelmed and saturated I shut down and sometimes when I’m just out of batteries basically I can’t even do basic things, like get out of the store I’m in and I have to lile chill a little in a random aisle and make a mental plan step by step even though I’ve been grocerie shoppen a million times before. Nothing comes automatically.
As a dumb teenger I developed anorexia wich I still have but I think it was my way of like becoming that robot that I wanted to be. But it probably backfired :D
@@majamannhard443ive noticed a lot of people recently with eg autism or adhd or other neuro atypical minds assuming that x or y is related to their being atypical. Yes some behaviours, thoughts, perceptions are but not all. Eg recently someone commented that they had a very visual way of experiencing the world because of adhd. And I thought why the link? I went to art school in my youth and as far as I know that was the norm. In fact I was surprised to find out that millions of people dont visualise everything. But millions of people do. Some more than others like synesthetics. Millions have an internal monologue. Millions dont. I have noticed mostly when someone is describing something which a) could be me and b) is very common. But they are pathologising everything.
I dont think ive explained too clearly but really want to say that please dont fall into the trap of doing that or alternatively miss interpreting the reason. I am one of those apparently outgoing people, full of confidence but hate going shopping. Not because people are unpleasant just because I find interacting with people who aren't close friends or family stressful. I used to think I was odd but discover there are thousands more out there if not millions.
Maybe read some professional case studies. They can be eye opening. I learned a lot when I worked with severely mentally ill adults. I read a lot and we had excellent in house training. The best from service users themselves.
Anyway I wish you well.
Ps I was 42 before I realised that people actually liked me. I always assumed they just tolerated me. That was a surprise I can tell you.
@@helenamcginty4920 thanks for the heartfelt answear. But it wasn’t that deep haha. My comment don’t describe my personality or my relationship with the world overall. I can see how it can be interpreted like that I guess. So thanks for showing me that. I have almost no neurotypical friends and not one of us were diagnosed when we met so it wasn’t what any of us lead with and I met them seperately so things fell into place slowly learning how the expression things have through their being idk. I’m not one of those people making autism my personality, sure I am autistic but it’s not lile that says much about me on it’s own. And I have alwas known people love me. People see me for who I am because I am always that. I don’t always love myself but I wouldn’t change myself. I just need to check out sometimes. I am also a nurse and I have met many people of all kinds.
People are people.
Sorry for bad spelling etc I’m too tired haha
Oh and funny thing I didn’t have ”words” for my experience until recently. I don’t see myself as pathological or disabled or whatever language you would consider a trap I guess. I have had anorexia depression whatever for more than half my life and I decided right away very aware that it wasn’t ”me”. I live with it but not in the forefront. I hate how mental illness is some kind of opressiom olympics these days. People calling others ableist or making them play word games because people put the responsibility of their ”comfort” om the world. Bruh.
@@majamannhard443thanks for your reply. I was trying not to jump to conclusions. And on a waffle day.
Funnily enough today I was going to post about how difficult it is to imagine ourselves into someone elses experience. (I am finishing watching the lecture) Yesterday I was taken by the gentle scent of jasmine as my friend and I passed a bush. Then recalled that my friend lost part of his sense of smell after a bad flu bout a few years ago. I felt momentarily very sad as I cannot imagine not being able to smell so many beautiful scents that float on the air.
So if even that feeling evades me deeper differences are way too far away.
Being non judgemental is, I think, the best any of us can do.
I have also learned over my 75 years not to be do harsh on myself. I realised that many of us are harsher judges of ourselves than of others. Self forgiveness is a good thing to develop. ❤❤❤
And I dont know where you live, obviously but here is some ☀️☀️☀️from the mediterranean.
I was near death when I was 27 in October 97 from a burst brain aneurysm. I was unconscious and survived an operation that I wasn’t meant to survive. When attached to the life support machine I left my body but I only traveled out of the intensive care suit and floated in the corridor in front of my older brother and the German nursing sister. This was in Germany and I was a British Soldier. I know what my brother said to the nurse and what she said in reply. The first thing I said to my self was what is going on..this is weird. Th way I was seeing..it was like I was looking out of something..an Orb..I a floating just below the flashing red light above the room door..I remember looking at this and I saw from my advantage point my RSM with two other people a bit further down corridor. I could see, think and hear..but I wasn’t breathing the mechanism of respiration I was away from and the body I didn’t even think about. When I came out of my body it was like being in a jet black room then the blind gets pulled up on a window..and I was that blind coming out of darkness into light. I am interested in NDE and OBE. Read Peter Fenwick’s books and listen to is talks. I have been face to face with spirits and have seen my pas over family and passed cats. Peace and love.
Try DMT
Dreams can be as vivid as they appear true, but, like life, only while they last. The dreaming/associative function is supposed to be able to create impressions-and does create impressions all the time because that is its job or function since it is said that man cannot live without impressions as he cannot live without other kinds of food including air,
"an operation that I wasn’t meant to survive" is either an elaborate lie or an elaborate dream. One thing is certain and that is that dreamers or believers dream or believe what they*want* to dream or believe. As Havelock Ellis put it, "Dreams are true while they last; can more be said of life?"
When I was a child I used to leave my body while dreaming. I remember flying over my neighborhood and right before I woke up I would fly through my roof and my body would bounce awake. I would often look at the ceiling to see if I left a hole from flying through it. I have also seen spirits as glowing orbs, my friend and I saw it and we jumped in the car and drove away. For a short period I would get attacked by shadows that would paralyze my body, I could only open my eyes but not breathe or speak. If I thought the name of Jesus I could break free. This is when I started to believe the bible.
@@vhawk1951kl he is not dreaming. His spirit is floating around looking and hearing stuff. Our consciousness and memories and personality are attributes of Spirit and are not part of the physical world and certainly not in the brain - Spirit is part of the Spiritual world.
All that nonsense about the spirit is gibberish unless you define your terms which you are incapable of doing, for example you have absolutely no idea what you mean by “spirit”, do you?
You have no idea what consciousness is what spirit is or what personality is or what memory is and certainly idea what consciousness is or what the word consciousness means or conscious means.
Does your famous and imaginary “spirit have eyes and ears memories likes and dislikes blood nerves?
You see? - You have no idea I can always detect and catch outliers on the details because they avoid details and keep everything as vague as possible and you are a liar are you not?
You have no idea what you mean by physical either and you have no idea what you mean by death and you are about to demonstrate this to me by signally failing to define your terms or answer any of those questions.
If you had any confidence or faith at all in all that lies in mumbo-jumbo about spirits you would destroying the body with perfect confidence that you doubt because you don’t believe a word of it you are a *liar*.
Incredible. We all stumble through life, and we “think,” we are ego, we are nothing but a speck on a speck, on a speck. Insignificant and yet significant. The ultimate expression of complex duality in apparent “living,” life.
GREAT!
BUT!
Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
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Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality.
The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!
You could look at it the other way as well. We are a Universe in a Universe....
Yes. Because we live in a mental interpretation of the limited input about reality we can get from our sense organs.
Exactly.
Common senses get about 3% from the whole.
(Whole is the actual science knowledge.)
Do not forget our memories and imagination.
Well.. look up the meaning of hallucination...
I’m turning Japanesea
Reality is not concept of words or any perception of any sort and deep down it does not need to follow any logic at all, its beyond us or to better say, its not something you can put nail into.
THANK YOU for describing these ideas without using the terms "incomprehensible" and "mysterious".
The hype has gotten way out of hand.
Such a refreshing presentation!
I'm glad you brought up the concept of identity.
That one is tricky. I'm pretty sure that identity is a complex illusion. I sure wish I knew people I could discuss these ideas with.
"Imagine being a brain for a second"
That's pretty profound. Never thought of how immeasurable a task
Well, you don't have to imagine as brain defines who you are.
@@jackwilson5542 According to the most recent Neuroscience theory, the brain is just a transducer.
@@jackwilson5542 or brain is proxy of consciousness? Nothing is certain as scientific yet.
@ValentineF and if one wakes up with no recollection of an dream experienced, what is done to bridge that gap?
wow none of you are real
Since I got sober, my dreams have been extremely vivid and conscious while I am still asleep
Two words for the "waking up" comment as coming out of unconsciousness. Lucid Dream. I can be very much conscious in my dreams even if I had no memory of the dream, I know that I was aware while I was dreaming, and that an amount of time was spent trying to understand what was going on. The same way that I may not remember what I was doing a few days ago but I know I was aware while I was doing it.
Definitely. Every night my dreams are like a journey of my choice where I control them . If I didn’t wake up it would be just normal life to me
Everyone is conscious while dreaming, lucid or not. The dream state IS a state of consciousness. However, we don't dream throughout our entire sleep cycle. We have periods of dreamless sleep every night, hence we do go unconscious
So you fellas can be completely conscious in your dreams even if you have no memory of your dreams. Says it all…
@@NomadOutOfAfrica What? You're one of those people that think you can remember every second of your life... You were conscious even if you don't remember it. Your comment is so idiotic I bet you can't remember what you had for breakfast.
@@Purpledream. What you just said is so ignorant. Of course you can be conscious without recall. Are you really proposing that anyone with amnesia was never conscious??? I remember being conscious, sometimes I have control, sometimes I don't, sometimes for a short time. When I wake if I don't think about it my brain discards the details as not important. But I still was conscious for it even if I forget the details. I never forget the spicy ones, the amazing ones, or the terrifying ones.
I've been under anestesia and was semi concious, the lights and people looked foriegn to me, I didn't understand what they were until I woke up. But I was conscious. It's a good thing they numbed me from head to toe, I would hate to have a memory of someone digging around in my gut.
This is worth understanding: consciousness is a result of being alive, not of being intelligent.
How about being conscious, as opposed to simply being alive?
@@123prestolee 1. Do you know of anything that's conscious that's not alive?
2. Do you know of anything that's alive that's not conscious?
Glyne Martin The vast majority of the population would support your definition of consciousness, and there in lies the problem. You/they ere completely missing the point of it all - to be present, conscious or to awaken is all that matters.
Consciousness exists beyond death.
@@123prestolee I have not defined consciousness.
I merely suggested that maybe Life itself has always been Consciousness and maybe this is why we cannot identify or locate Consciousness where there is an absence of Life....and lastly _why trying to separate Life from Consciousness might be a bankrupt pursuit._
That was refreshingly interesting. As a neuroscientist, i rolled my eyes at the title, but decided to give it a watch while packing for an upcoming flight. Beautiful talk. I would like to clarify that we can label three sources of information for the brain: i) the outside environment, ii) the body, and iii) the brain itself. The last source is fundamental to medicine since the ability for the brain to send itself information is critical for neural circuit training. We can train our brains via imaged (instead of actual) experiences.
Bit of a dismissive attitude to roll your eyes at things, kinda defeats the point of being a scientist.
@@heresjohnny602 he was honest about it
Also recommended is a book called “The mind Illuminated” by Culadasa (John Yates). He was a professor of neuroscience and trained in Buddhist meditation for over 40 years.
😃 *I'm aLWaYs happy to eXpanD my libRaRY thanKs foR the reCoMMenDaTioN.!!* 📚
thank uu
You practice meditation you train to be a Dr.
thanks, mate, I will have a look at it :)
buddhism is limited human capacity, go to supernatural faith in Jesus Crist ,
I'm pretty confident after 69 years that their are alternate realities we experience depending on what we project or expect in our conscious states. Much like dreaming. I've had it happen many times. Great insights. Thank you. Now if I could just mind meld the winning lotto numbers... but World Peace would be better. We are one, only separated by our perception of possibilities. Whoever dies with the most LOVE wins! :D
I get what you’re saying but I also think it’s important to be accurate. There are alternate possibilities, but like the collapse from the superposition in quantum mechanics, they become one reality once they are no longer uncertain. Saying there are alternate realities is like saying there’s alternate math...it makes no sense as if you discovered more math or more reality it would just stay math or reality...it wouldn’t be an “alternate”...
The future and anything outside of conscious awareness are simply possibilities that have yet to be reality. You are certainly right that your conscious state has an effect but I’d say it’s better described by saying that there seems to be a direct correlation between Newton’s 3rd law and consciousness, which is known historically as Karma, but it is a part of what forms reality (it is one part of what determines the way that possibility becomes certainty) not any kind of “alternate” reality.
That is why it doesn’t really work to bring you the winning lotto ticket (which wouldn’t be a very good intention most likely. It’s rather greedy, which is a type of intention usually rewarded by stinginess from the universe in my observation) because the probability of you winning the lotto is still a very very slim even if there are many possibilities open to us, and you can also bet someone with similar intentions is trying the same thing probably lol. That is a very very slim possibility any way you turn it. Dying with the most love is closer to the objective objective id agree but even still I think that is looking at your individual and your body as your true self when it’s probably the biggest part of the illusion that keeps you from actually knowing yourself. I think we are better off spreading reason with platonic love than worrying about how much love we have received or ignoring how “love” can easily become logos destroying Eros that actually makes the world more illogical and can lead to more suffering in many cases not less. Logic and reason are paramount but empathy (platonic love) is how reason is spread most effectively.
Learn stock day trading. It’s really not that hard
I can suggest some great books if you would like. No luck necessary once you have skills... it’s basically free money
What do you mean the most love?
I have found the Universal Mind responds to my desires when combined with authentic heart and emotional ache without any alterior motivation. So much so that it's unnerving.
@mark traver there is no paying attention to peace in your soul you are that. One cannot pay attention to what one is, yes many are disillusioned, but this type of speech exemplifies the issue
Excited to read all the expert opinions in the comments section 😊
Consciouseness is neither wooly nor elusive, but what we are. I see many many science and theoretical channels on youtube, all trying really to address, just who we are and where we came from. When I was quite young, I too had all these questions. I did come to the conclusion that the mind was too small to understand something so vast as to how everything came about. I used to say to colleagues and friends, how can I stop thinking? and was told, it's ok, you're just creative, or something like that, but I knew it was something much deeper, I knew that I was not in control, and I desparately wanted to be quiet inside. I was so fortunate to a little later, be shown, that inside me is a beauty, a quiet place, this was my true self, the me that was me before I was christened, the one that looks out of my eyes and percieves. I was shown a light within, so beautiful that it blows thoughts away like the sun blows away the darkness. For once in my life I was able to be still, and feel a love within me, without having to use a trigger from this world. The most beautiful thing is that it is always there, every moment. What I have been shown is the infinite part of me, where I have come from, and where I shall return, pure infinite consciouseness, pure love. Science will not find it with the mind, because the mind divides, only will the heart embrace the whole, only with the heart one can find the true self. It is not theory, it is not religion, it is not meditation, it is real, it is within us with every breath, we just need to know where to look, it is home, it is where we all need to be.
Is that so called ENLIGHTMENT experience ?
I find this to be an overcomplication arising from ignoring and/or misunderstanding the wisdom passed down to us throughout all ages. Mind you, I have not watched the whole video, and although a discussion on consciousness can be extremely enlightening, it is a drop of water compared to the ocean of actually experiencing the power of your own consciousness.
In my experience, there is no "hard problem of consciousness". There is either an awareness of consciousness, of the "I Am" or "God" within you, or there is a lack of awareness of it, with the awareness being centered in the ego.
Logically trying to define consciousness has the same limits as logically trying to define God. The definition can help provide insight, but is limiting, and it is clear that God, and our consciousness, are not limited. Language, in this case, is a hindrance inasmuch as it is a tool for insight.
God, and consciousness, can only be known in silence - in contemplation, self-reflection, meditation, and prayer. Intellectually, we can know a lot, but experience triumphs over intellectual knowledge, and experience also serves to elevate the intellect.
Empirical science without the internal sciences is as fruitless to the whole as studying the trunk and leaves of a tree while ignoring its roots and the soil it's rooted in, as well as ignoring the heights that it aspires to reach. Francis Bacon, the father of the scientific method, would surely agree with this, as his advocation of empirical study was tied to his understanding of God and divinity; he posited empirical science as a means of further observing the divine in the physical world.
As above, so below - As within, so without.
I'm a simple man. I see Anil Seth has a new lecture at the RI. I click
Not a simple man, simply a man of culture.
Love Anil Seth (and Joscha Bach!)
Thank you for taking us on this journey
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Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
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Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality.
The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!
This video made me feel like I am eating with my brain. The quality of this knowledge and the curiosity and the necessity of obtaining understanding of this concept for my personal growth made me feel better than I've ever felt in my entire life.
"eating with my brain" that's a pretty awesome way to put it!
@USA TAMONDOMUNI U clearly missed the point of the video...
@USA TAMONDOMUNI Man u gotta chill, u trippin
@USA TAMONDOMUNI if you think so. 😁
@@romankonecny7106 my guy just distributed a lost biblical text, the Book of Tadademoni
I can imagine being in a park on a pleasant, sunny day. There are people, dogs, birds, squirrels, flowers, and bees in the park. I take in the scene with my eyes, nose, ears, and touch. My brain processes the information into an integrated whole, a pleasant sunny day in the park.
If I talk to the other people in the park, they have processed their sensory information and have come to the same conclusion as to where we are and what it is like. And if I observe the other creatures, their behavior is consistent with my observaions, they are aware of the people and other creatures around them, and can interact with them in ways that make sense.
Our senses, though imperfect, are made to give us knowledge of the actual world around us, and so are the senses of all living creatures. We are living in a shared reality, we are all seeing the same things.
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tried dmt few years ago, got answers to all questions i had, left with even more questions 😂
had a positive effect on me, not at first though because I was afraid alot. Went through it, faced my fears, defeated them, it changed my life.
Would love to explain the feelings but it's not possible to describe with words. Although it sounds amazing and fun,I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who isn't ready to leave reality and go back in after few hours. Can't say it's pleasant experience, but that it is life changing, it's true.
Stay away from psychedelic drugs.
@@ejkalegal3145 Fitting that you can't spell psychedelic.
@@lysikasaito And now I can....look I'm as clevar as you now!
@@ejkalegal3145 ha. I like your sense of humoe
This is the 2nd lecture I see about him talking about consciousness. And it's very satisfying seeing his progress between the two.
I think the first time was in a TED talk.
I felt the same. There was just a HUGE jump in clarity, confidence and novel information from the TED talk to this one... and I remember the TED talk blowing my mind too! He is a real scientific superstar.
Yes it is, which is self-evident every day as you say: there is no real 'agency', it need not be termed a 'hard problem', and consideration of electrochemical interactions or the the multiverse need not be brought into it 🙂
Thanks for the interesting talk. Just wanted to comment on the quote "Nothing worth reading has been written on it [consciousness]." In the modern, materialistic scientific literature, maybe. It would be a shame though to forget that Eastern traditions have been thinking about it for ages and made pretty astounding discoveries. For instance, the idea at the centre of this talk that our reality and our sense of self are like an illusion has been one of the main claims of Buddhism for the last 2600 years (since the Buddha lived).
Worth saying that quite a bit has been written about the unconscious and unconsciousness.
Or maybe not.................do you want to buy some Paracetamol?
Your comment is really to bash on science despite all the good it has achieved...science has been questioning consciousness since the discipline began so you're talking rubbish.
It's not rubbish, its a form of science. Spiritual science. Your rudeness is indicative of your education. Thank you for the original comment.
@@joshalmighty1901 Saying that modern science has done NOTHING towards researching consciousness of any worth isn't what a scientist would say, please demonstrate how deep breathing and speaking to the air in a certain way so you can suspend the laws of time and space uniquely in your favour science.
Of note, of you're going to engage with people either engage freely or don't bother because projecting a made up internal image of my voice based on your own bias is childlike weak.
I said it so it is....noooo.....you must demonstrate your theory then present the appropriate evidence to support thar young Joshua....do better boy.
@@joshalmighty1901 spiritual science is a nonsense term you created to make yourself feel good. There's no such thing.
“Reasoning under conditions of uncertainty” sounds like a great real-life skill!
adding this to my skilltree
May not be good for some tasks where you have to "do as you are told".
Well, that was timely. Anil Seth’s book came across my desk today and purely by coincidence I added it to my TBR.
Its called synchronicity... proof of simulation?
@@wearenotamused6455 I mean, I was chalking it up to mundane things like the fact I work in a library, I use an online TBR and the fact that the algorithm is always listening. 🤷♀️
It's called A.I. algorithms in advertisements & video suggestions... the one triggered the other to appear
@@isoney
And, all for the purpose of Google gathering data from our interactions (w/ web, social media, amongst ourselves n w/ It) - to basically replicate the brain n ultimately surpass it, yes?
You have Neuralink installed?
What is happening around me now is a very difficult time.
Lucidity of dreaming is a very good idea of how much we have been in awareness and sensory experience.
This is the best lecture i have seen , ever.
Words cannot express my gratitude.
This brilliant professor got it right/correct/accurate down to the most important.
The mind is a constant cyclic prediction machine. Reality is a semi controlled construct of the consciousness. You constantly predict reality into a subjective existance/perception.
This lecture is dedicated to every person who practice augmented conciousness/augmented sensory/ extrasensory perception. Claircognizant, precognition, remote viewer, psychic, esp, super recognizer, face shifter, colour shifter, mind mirror practitioner, script imager, mind reach practitioner, multiple sensory predictive mixer, moded enhanced sensory modulator...
The same predictive machanism that enable perception in ordinary people, extend itself in enhanced/augmented people.
I dont know how the professor got it right/so accurate, unless he was assisted by an enhanced person.
Or maybe the fact that he got it right by coming from a different direction shows that it's all real. It seems that certain scientific and academic subjects are now catching up with all the alternative subjects. Both different sides of the same coin.
The Truth Here!!✔️👍👽
Topic aside, it's so good to see them back in the theatre after so much time.
All those virtual talks, they just didn't feel same even though i am still just watching it through youtube and not live.
Good job there's no new COVID variant to worry about... oh... wait.
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@@dashdotdot yeah but this new variant isn't worth worrying about.
Yeah, I'd put it to one side too. Good thing my brain has two .
First encountered Mr Seth on the psychedelics world science festival interview and this man’s knows what he’s talking about , always great to learn thank you !!!
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Nobody does its a collection of others everyone is
GREAT!! BUT! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
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Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.
GREAT!!! BUT! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
***
Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.
GREAT!
BUT!
Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
***
Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality.
The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!
It strikes me as utterly bizarre that our most direct experience of reality...of our own brains...if regarded as being 'subjective', yet stuff we have no direct experience of whatever but merely infer...is regarded as 'objective'. I'm not surprised we cannot figure out what consciousness is when we cannot even get the cart behind the horse.
Scientists are aware of this problem but I read in a Stephen Hawking book that they have to choice but to work as if there is an objective reality.
I've experienced a dream, where everything was more real than the reality and in this dream I was able to feel the transition of the dream into the waking life. It was like emerging from water, but thicker, clear jelly like substance and entering this life full of air.
That's my best explanation for now, as it's very tricky to describe!
i have had this same dream and it happened like two weeks ago. i still could recount the dream today as almost nostalgic in my perception of the memory.
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.
@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus the answer is that there is no way to know how real reality is, no reason to believe that you and your concept of reality have existed for any time period longer than the last time you gained consciousness. In fact, there is no way to prove you existed 5 seconds ago.
@USA TAMONDOMUNI whatever you are saying is coming from a place of ignorance, I'm sorry. I was quoting Zhuang Zhu
@USA TAMONDOMUNI oh jeepers, that's a whole lot of pretentious gobbledygook. If that whole thing is etymology, try to be aware that you are just using symbols to represent your thoughts, and the origin of the symbol has no influence on your own thoughts. Just relax, and enjoy.
I remember once I went to a seminar of Rodolfo Llinas, and he told us a crazy story about a brain surgeon, one day he was doing surgery with a specific patient, he was stimulating certain parts of the thalamus, with the patient awake (might seem weird but you can do brain surgery with the patient awake, only local anesthesia), and suddenly the patient told the doctor: -My left leg is afraid, or jealous or whatever (I don't exactly remember what emotion), but I was quite amazed, didn't knew that consciousness can be manipulated in such strange ways.
Hello Pablo, great story, stuff to look at. Sincères amitiés 😎
right? and marketing knows it too
@@AngeloGuardia right that for sûre 😎
My legs have always had a mind of their own. Little boogers
GREAT!! BUT! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
***
Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.
Here’s a thought… I’m going to explain a state of higher consciousness.
The first thing to realize is that existence is pattern. A flux of energy that creates patterns to understand itself.
What You ARE fundamentally is the very structure of existence. What we call experience is the fabric that structures existence, irreducible and indescribable. Experience emerges from less than nothingness (void). This experience is WHAT you are.
Time is an illusion of perception and understanding. There is only one present moment that ever exists and it is the eternal now. All experience emerges in this timeless, dimensionless moment.
Every sensation that is experienced is incremental. Vision, sound, taste, touch, etc are all brought into the now awareness and dissipate. Thought is also sensation. Sound and taste are easiest to realize the incrementation, vision is more illusory because of the fixed perspective that the projected image displays. Vision emerges like a screen of phantasmagoria, while most of the time we ignore the fact that what we see may seem like hallucination until more focus is put onto processing detail of the image. (We expect an objective picture to be displayed to our mind and ignore the fact that outside of the 2 degree radius of our central vision, everything is blurry and out of focus)
Thought is no less a sensation of intelligent patterns of understanding. The way humans think is reductionism cause and effect. We segment the flux of perception into smaller patterns and call these “things” or objects and events. In reality there are no individual “things” there is only the energy flux shifting into patterning forms, constantly transforming.
We then represent these thoughts with symbols (vocal sounds, letters) that we assign to the concept for use in communication. (Words/sentences)
With thought the human mind is able to produce a statement about what is happening, from there the concept of cause and effect arise and questions can be had about “how, where, when, why” certain “things” led to the certain circumstances. In reality every thing and event ultimately relies on every single other thing and event to be exactly how they are. There can’t be a completely accurate description of anything without also describing everything else.
It seems with this way of thinking, the mind would then reflect on itself to ask how the sensations emerge. In the present awareness most of the time there is a sense of continuity. An awareness of the immediate past along with the observation of the unfolding present along with the anticipation of the immediate future. This flowing continuity is the reason the mind is aware of anything at all.
When one asks how it is that volition occurs in one’s own mind the only answer is “I” did it. (How do I open and close my hand?) There is a sensation of intention that emerges and is linked to a motor function nearly unconsciously unless the action is not commonly made.
(Remember that fundamentally WHAT you are is the sensations themselves, without which there would be less than nothing)
So when this flow of thoughts emerges into the awareness one must realize that the CONTEXT of the thoughts (the intelligently linked information) is not what you are, what you are is the SENSATION of thought, emerging into the present moment and dissipating. From there one realizes that this flowing thought process, when asking “What/Who am I?”, is the intelligent happening of the brain trying to use its logic to explain what is happening.
More on the context of thought. When the sound of a word is heard (eg. “fire”) is it YOU that instantly relates that sound, which could be any sound, to a concept? The mind can’t explain how it does it, it just happens. Same way with performing an action, one can’t perform any kind of voluntary action without an intention. Any action that is made without also the experience of anticipating the action is considered involuntary. So volition is only possible with this immediate sense of continuity (past and future anticipation) and most of the time linked with thought patterns to correlate an action with an intention.
Ultimately who you are is the very intelligent understanding of the universe reflecting on itself. From the pov of realizing that you are this deep down whatever there is (we call it experience) you realize that by understanding that this universe is a constant flux and “your” body is a repeating pattern of the whole thing, “your” experience is also a constant flux creating intelligent patterns of information. Therefore who you are, not your ego (the contextual thoughts about one’s persona), is the universe, along with every other repeating body there is. Only you pretend to be something individual from the rest of it. You wouldn’t be able to conceptualize “yourself”without being able to conceptualize something “other”.
I hope you typed all of this with a keyboard.
They were some pretty good mushrooms, I think had some from the same batch
Beautifully written. I had to pause the lecture to read this lol
Does a tree, in a forest, make a sound when it falls?
Only if there is an ear to hear it.
Without the eye, the sun is dark.
In that way, the human being is the universe.
The world 'peoples' a human, as an apple tree 'apples' an apple.
Thank you 🙏
Just knowing that a group of intellects like yours exists-working together with similarly like-minded academics across the planet-serves as an honest hope for humanity.
I enjoyed this, gave me a lot of food for thought. Octopi are probably the most alien type creatures to us on this planet. This made me think about my fight or flight response, I don't have or have I ever had the flight response in me and it made me think that possibly it is my brains way of making sure that I do every thing I can to stay safe rather than to flee and leave it to something I may not be able to control, self preservation I'm a sense. There is also my critical thinking when it comes to a bad situation, whether it be fire or some other type of emergency type situation. My brain has always went on an Auto pilot mode to deal with the situation, it has happened numerous times, I've come to just trust my instinct in those types of situations and it's always worked out in the best, my brain seems to know what to do faster than I could evaluate what is happening. That might have some free will questions attached to it. I found this insightful, I love this stuff, great presentation.
I think Chalmers would (rightly) say you're describing aspects of neural correlates and brain functions, rather than why/how experiential consciousness exists at all.
yup
Actually I would argue he just hasn't take it to its inevitable conclusion logically general anesthesia was used as the opposite of consciousness but one surprising and fascinating discovery is general anesthesia works on all living organism from Prokaryotic bacteria and archaea to Eukaryotic plants fungi and animals. The feedback between the environment and maintaining living suggested would lead to a model where there is a gradient which has evolved in complexity what Neurons are doing with ion channels and action potentials isn't something that came out of nowhere it has a common origin at the very least with the Last Universal Common Ancestor of life. It may have been primitive at its start but it didn't come from nowhere. all organisms use these ion channels to interact respond to their environment and maintain homeostasis in some manner. By his definition consciousness appeared whenever prediction appeared thus organisms such as slime molds, fungi and plants which lack brains but can based on past experiences can anticipate future conditions or events, are they conscious?.
The link between life and consciousness seems to be an interesting direction. From an objective sense if you lack an operational definition in this case the incorporation of a predictive component into the sensory feedback. If such an operational definition can't be developed then that subject remains outside the bounds of science. Thus if you believe there isn't a link then you will never find one.
@@Dragrath1 yup, you'll never find out one, and will convince the general public to give up on creativity and just play their zombie machine roles obediently, while more self-affirming conscious beast overlords will run the show. Good luck with that! :-)
Chalmers (wrongly) made an arbitrary distinction. Dualism is ubiquitous, but there is no hard problem if you see the brain as constructing mental features which are your ‘mind’ at a given moment. It doesn’t have to come from a single neuron because the subjective experience would be an emergent property. It looks weird because we’re inside it, or rather we ARE it, and, as the cliché goes, using the brain to study the brain. If it is a brain function, then there’s no need to conjure up another realm.
@@aaronclarke7732 Emergence may well turn out to be correct, but finding out is The Hard Problem. How do you test that (or any other) claim? The scientific toolkit of objective (third person testable) observation and measurement doesn't look to be equipped for the job. So far at least. To say there is no hard problem if you assume conscious experience is a novel emergent property is the answer, doesn't get us past the actual Hard Problem of how can we know? I think Chalmers is making a fair point.
''The hard problem of consciousness (Chalmers 1995) is the problem of explaining the relationship between physical phenomena, such as brain processes, and experience (i.e., phenomenal consciousness, or mental states/events with phenomenal qualities or qualia). Why are physical processes ever accompanied by experience? And why does a given physical process generate the specific experience it does-why an experience of red rather than green, for example?
The hard problem contrasts with so-called easy problems, such as explaining how the brain integrates information, categorizes and discriminates environmental stimuli, or focuses attention. Such phenomena are functionally definable. That is, roughly put, they are definable in terms of what they allow a subject to do. So, for example, if mechanisms that explain how the brain integrates information are discovered, then the first of the easy problems listed would be solved. The same point applies to all other easy problems: they concern specifying mechanisms that explain how functions are performed. For the easy problems, once the relevant mechanisms are well understood, there is little or no explanatory work left to do.''
Anil talked about measuring brain activity and then talked about Functional aspects of consciousness as explaining why conscious experience is the way it is. That we create useful mental models (''hallucinations'') of the world based on utility (specifically predictability here) rather than perfect representations of the world we interract with. That's fine, but it leaves the Hard Problem unaddressed. Why are physical processes ever accompanied by experience? If your Why answer is that it's useful, that's not an explanation. And opens up the problem of over-determinism - if the physical brain systems are doing all the functional work anyway, the correlated experience is redundant.
Thank you for being a talented speaker!
I know, right 😏
This is mindblowing. I wonder what goes on in really intense psychodellic experiences in relation to ego disolution. The perception of oneness and unity that disolves dualism. Obviously, level, content, and self are affected but it seems that it is the self what’s dismantled as a hallucination most evidently. Thank you very much for sharing this lecture.
stop taking drugs
@@MrSimonw58 if you are being serious, you've completely missed my point and the point of the talk. Substances like mushrooms have been around for thousands of years. The question is, why do they cure depression or PTSD? Depression is all about the self. I invite to just read the literature and studies being done at Harvard, John Hopkins, NY university, Imperial college and some others. Please let me know what your experience is under psychodelics, I imagine you have taken them in order to produce a recommendation for my health. Have a wonderful day Simon.
@@MrSimonw58 stop being controlled to believe mushrooms are drugs ;)
Duuuude.. le diste al clavo. I don't wonder anymore, I believe it is our perception of the ego that gets affected when taking psychedelics. I don't think the ego itself gets disassembled, we just switch to perceiving it that way. Yeah, reality, in a sense, could very well be a kind of hallucination, personal and subjective (to an extent) for each individual. Bueno, es lo que pienso a estas alturas. Aun continúo mi búsqueda. Saludos, mano.
It is completely alien to whatever kind of mental experience you may have ever had in your entire life. To say the least
Thanks a lot for your excellent and inspiring talk!
I love listening to Buddhist teachings because they say the same thing that is being spoken in this lecture, except there are 83,000 entries- perceptions to contemplate on for awakening every individual.
There are compacted teaching called "the swift path".
Yessir they don't get enough credit, anything you recommend reading?
I would like to read it too
Buddhism is wrong, like this guy, because they both confuse the empirical self for the a priori self that is presupposed in thinking of the empirical self.
@@MacSmithVideo I'm interested, can you explain in detail
@@MacSmithVideo what is consciousness? We try to explain it. There are no words for it. There is a spectrum to everything, meaning that we live in a illusionary realm of duality and polarity, Emotion and consciousness each have a spectrum of duality and polarity. Example: We both can try to explain to each other our level of consciousness or emotion but there is a spectrum to it. For example: I love you and you love me, but who loves each other more or less. The spectrum of each person's seemingly can't really be explained, a third person would judge our love by our actions, but still can't explain the consciousness that creates the love. Even Buddhist know this, they know it's not real. That's why they are not attached to it, because it's an illusion, but can still have compassion for karmic reasons, because there is proof of karma. A person will create karma through action, that is the only proof there is. All in all there is nothing, everything is empty and unprovable, That's why they say everything is an illusion. So we don't attach to illusions as long as we can be aware of this most realistic though in each moment. What is sought through meditation is to empty the mind and get to the place between thought, which is so subtle that most of us are unaware that it exists. The more they practice the broader that space becomes, which is the essence of who we are. That is the place of no illusion, an unexplainable void.
This is my understanding of it. Im not skilled at it. Im practicing, so that is my attachment. My perception of it is my unessecery illusion.... 😂
The problem I see with science and conciousness is how it wants to make it only about our brain. Denying the possibility of other sources of conciousness simply locks us into potential dead ends. That's not how major scientifiic breakthroughs occur. A lot of progress begins with speculation based on perhaps a tiny amount of knowledge within a domain. This video is just more of what I see as a dead end. A good start would be to explain lucid conciousness when the brain is non functional. A clue to something potentially world changing but conveniently ignored by most researchers. And anyone who does consider the alternatives will be routinely mocked.
They want us to believe we are only self deluded machines to better and more easily control us. Sometimes I look at the world and have to admit they might be right.
Consciousness is extremely fascinating to me because I have a very personally complex relationship to the concept of self, consciousness, the body, and the brain. I find these things to all be separated but integrated almost as a symbiosis of these concepts that create ourselves and our reality moment to moment. I haven't really been able to ever quantify how to appropriately express the idea but some day I might have the ability to communicate it effectively.
Consciousness is when I’m with your mom
And in that moment it will be done as efficiently as you explained it here! 💗🧠
Eastern philosophy has this understood for thousands of years
I've done a lot of meditation on the topic. "I" EGO "Me" NUREYEV "Self" SOUL "We" THE VESSEL -- Consciousness is a giant dream, dreamt by something from a place that exists outside of Death's grasp (or even an unknown aspect of death itself). Let's call this place the "Outer Darkness" (The Primordial / Divine Feminine).
The more I have thought about this, the weirder the answers become. By direct comparison of personal experience against the records of other individuals, I've come to terms with a sort of terrible reality.....Humanity is a form of Cattle for entities that exist outside of our 3D space/time environment. I've interacted with some of these entities. They are emotionally cold toward us, they are methodical, they are cruel to be kind.
@@nureyevhaas1299 I like this concept for exploration. I personally have issues with specific ideals around existence and reality as I sometime suffer psychosis which makes what isn't real to the accepted social reality but are very very real for me and it's these moments and my first experience with it that made me want to explore all that I do because the Brain is a powerful machine that we aren't consciously in complete control of. It is a simply complex relationship we hold on our unique universe
instead of threating it as a mistery, exploring all the possibilities. very wise..
Yes!! Fellow deep thinkers gather 'round for this momentous occasion! One of the great ones will now speak! Lol seriously though I love this guy
I was just introduced to the work of Robert Lanza a week ago, and now this! I’m so grateful to have stumbled upon this talk 🙏🏼 always grateful for a good cosmic breadcrumb trail!
Hi I recommend you Rupert Spira. He teaches the direct path to be aware of awareness/consciousness 🙏. I think science doesn’t bring you there. Own experience can..
Check out Donald Hoffman- he’s into similar theories
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GREAT!
BUT!
Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
***
Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality.
The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!
I was so comfortable this morning, woke up a few times after completing a few orders.
Then around 6am. Reality kicked in. 😊
It feels like our world is just a perception our consciousness makes to grasp the physicality of it.
When I look at individual parts of a system, their purpose is not know, neither how they can come together to give me something meaningful. Yet when they do come together, multiple shapes come together to create a new one which has properties of its own that none other part had. The consciousness is another such thing, that will become clear once we understand the pysical processes, even it may appear that we wont because consciousness, yet we will because this analogy must hold true.
So your assumption is emergence, which is one of multiple options. But yes there will always be some kind of emergence of a whole out of parts, if it will fully explain conciousness is not a given though
@@Robinson8491 it's not just a question of emergence. Weak emergence happens in nature all the time.
The question surrounds the viability of the idea of *Strong Emergence.* This idea of emergence is the only way consciousness can arise from a collection of fundamental non conscious elements.
Strong Emergence never happens in Nature, so this makes this hypothesis more than very unlikely....
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Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
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Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality.
The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!
@@glynemartin There is a theory called panpsychism which proposes that all matter has basic consciousness
@@meditationman4208 The problem with Panpsychism is that it is yet to propose a viable, cogent explanation that explains how Matter's "fragments of consciousness" become unified into "One Consciousness"...
Physical consciousness is at the core of why science can never uncover reality, only merely the best way reality fits our limited (physical) consciousness.
Wow
Very well explained sir.
Cool ideas! Thank you for putting the time in and sharing them with others ❤️🔥
There was a very strange feature in this case, strange because of its extremely rare occurrence. This man had once been brought to the scaffold in company with several others, and had had the sentence of death by shooting passed upon him for some political crime. Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die. I was very anxious to hear him speak of his impressions during that dreadful time, and I several times inquired of him as to what he thought and felt. He remembered everything with the most accurate and extraordinary distinctness, and declared that he would never forget a single iota of the experience. ‘About twenty paces from the scaffold, where he had stood to hear the sentence, were three posts, fixed in the ground, to which to fasten the criminals (of whom there were several). The first three criminals were taken to the posts, dressed in long white tunics, with white caps drawn over their faces, so that they could not see the rifles pointed at them. Then a group of soldiers took their stand opposite to each post. My friend was the eighth on the list, and therefore he would have been among the third lot to go up. A priest went about among them with a cross: and there was about five minutes of time left for him to live. ‘He said that those five minutes seemed to him to be a most interminable period, an enormous wealth of time; he seemed to be living, in these minutes, so many lives that there was no need as yet to think of that last moment, so that he made several arrangements, dividing up the time into portions-one for saying farewell to his companions, two minutes for that; then a couple more for thinking over his own life and career and all about himself; and another minute for a last look around. He remembered having divided his time like this quite well. While saying good- bye to his friends he recollected asking one of them some very usual everyday question, and being much interested in the answer. Then having bade farewell, he embarked upon those two minutes which he had allotted to looking into himself; he knew beforehand what he was going to think about. He wished to put it to himself as quickly and clearly as possible, that here was he, a living, thinking man, and that in three minutes he would be nobody; or if somebody or something, then what and where? He thought he would decide this question once
for all in these last three minutes. A little way off there stood a church, and its gilded spire glittered in the sun. He remembered staring stubbornly at this spire, and at the rays of light sparkling from it. He could not tear his eyes from these rays of light; he got the idea that these rays were his new nature, and that in three minutes he would become one of them, amalgamated somehow with them. ‘The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, ‘What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!’ He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.’
I've been dealing with PTSD and depression for many years now as a result of my parents passing and abandonment issues that preceded that
I can definitely confirm that one's state of my mind fundamentally affects one's perception of reality. Reality that also includes the relationships you have with others. Those of course are dependent by how you perceive yourself
Understanding the neurological mechanics of these things is so important. It can help us better treat mental illnesses and allow people to better respond to treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy. This lecture also makes me wonder whether we could ever actually move a consciousness from one body to another (or upload it). The computer game "SOMA" deals with this topic in a quite interesting and moving way. In the game, the idea is that while we can only ever copy a consciousness, but never move it. There's also a great sci-fi TV series called "Altered Carbon" which answered the question in a differenr manner. In the video game it turns out that a consciousness can only ever be copied, but never moved. It will be interesting to see how this question will be answered in the real world and all the ethical and moral questions it raises
So TRUE !!✔️👽👍
This concept was investigated in a darker way in the episode White Christmas which is in the Black Mirror tv series. What is alarming is how so much from Black Mirror is starting to become a part of our real World with technological advances and society’s future path.
@@eldante4139 Predictive programming, as it were?! 🤔 going on in real life?! 🔥
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of course u can “move” it. You copy, then erase.
@@johnbushong9843 but then that means the original consciousness has been erased and so not moved. It’s only the copy that exists. If someone made a copy of you, it wouldn’t be you.
This has been on my mind for the las few years.
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Yea but you have to expansively define what is meant by hallucination. Since we know that what is experienced as higher conscious awareness can be changed by the chemical make up and electric potentials of the brain. So the question would also require an expansive definition of what is meant by "consciousness". I suggest looking into Integrate Information Theory by Christof Koch and I think Toulini. This is right down your alley of thought.
@@Fx_- Christof Koch is an amazing man and neuroscientist, and very underappreciated I feel
If anyone in this section can provide evidence of anything, anything at all existing beyond awareness then I’m very keen to for them to share it , a good grasp of irony is the order of the day
I have always distinguished the properties and mechanisms of perception, interpretation, and even structure as being distinct from awareness, while all four phenomena participate interdependently to give rise to more complex states like consciousness. Oblivion, as the alternative to consciousness, can be equated to the awareness of nothing, and so things without mechanisms for perception or interpretation (information feeds and processing) can possess the absolute minimum of awareness. The question about consciousness is really an advanced or special inquiry about awareness, what it is, how it exists (for us a self-evident fact, individually), whether it is a fundamental property (if not, how it emerges from other phenomena), how it integrates with structures and mechanisms (perceptual systems and information systems) to focus into higher states of awareness identifiable as unconsciousness, sub-consciousness, consciousness and potentially super-consciousness. For me, consciousness has the primary characteristic of understanding and independent consciousnesses can resonate together in accordance with the scope of their similarity (a sharing of identity in some respects) or exist internally as the unification of a neural net composed of elements each possessing a quantum of awareness, in a fashion similar to a material system unified by a quantum wave form. Think of oblivion as the zero-dimensional expression of awareness. Awareness of nothing is static, insubstantial and formless but in a surprising way NOT equivalent to not existing. We all have experience with oblivion, moments when we were not aware of our existence, followed by moments when we became conscious. If that implies there have been periods during which we ceased to exist, then our current consciousness implies that our existence was reinstated. We have our memories to tell us that we are the same person, the same consciousness, we were before our moment of oblivion. There is still a hard existential question about the oblivion we face before and after our lives, but one thing we can say is that we all know something about the plausibility of being something that was created from "nothing". From our own perspectives, it really seems like the whole world was created from nothing along with us, and that it will cease to exist when we do. Perhaps consciousness is tied to our bodies such that one only truly exists in conjunction with its biological processes. We may never truly know. What we do know for certain is that existence can only be meaningful in the possession of consciousness. It is the exclusively held property of an awareness that contains itself.
I've experienced the most profound ego dissolution during ketamine therapy, highly recommended for personality disorders if you can orchestrate a complete rebirth of the ego. It is terrifying because you have to face the infinity of the universe and accept it fully in order to get there, which is a very intense experience to handle.
When you go into the dimensions of consciousness and get to the having a body and being a body and the rubber hand experiment it clicked in my brain what Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) is about (my daughter has it)
Her body switches perception randomly and because of it can't walk , has pain, dissociated or stammers and seemingly unexpected turns back to 'normal or 'functional' perspective. It sounds like a conscious disease after listening to this talk and makes it clearer to me why the medical world struggles with it
Physical doctors say it is mental and mental doctors say it is physical and no one knows what to do with it.
Would love to hear the speakers views on this very disabling disease...
I have fnd, I had a severe nervous breakdown a decade ago and was left paralysed from the neck down for a month or so, and had to learn to talk. Walk, eat, hold a cup, literally everything. My mind shut my body down. Since then although I have spinal osteoarthritis, I am in a wheelchair with pain a lot if the time and then some days nothing, walking normal, it’s frustrating and irritating as few people understand how tough it is to wake up and not know what your mind is going to do today.
@@thomasscottwilliams6672 I feel for you my friend. And it fascinates me how they come up with a name for something without knowing squat about it.
I started to have blistering migraines, out of the clear blue in my early 20s. I went to doctor after doctor.
One said, you came to me about a headache?? One said, you're obviously tense, you need to learn to relax. Go for a walk. "Doctors know this, that's why we never get headaches".
So 5 years of that. losing two jobs and I come across a doctor who had migraines himself. It's a vascular thing. For a reason they don't understand, the blood vessels going through your skull dilate and since the hole in the skull is not flexible, the pressure on the blood vessel cause intense pain. He gave me a list of foods to avoid, which included those with sodium nitrate and monosodium glutamate and my migraines decreased by half.
So, fast forward some 50 years. My migraines started when I got married to a nice, Russian girl. She made Borscht, which I loved. As it turns out, beets are high in naturally occurring nitrates.
She's in a nursing home and no more beet soup for me. My migraines disappeared completely. Who knew?
In any case, hopefully research will tame this demon and life can be better. Good luck.
@@thomasscottwilliams6672 Thank you.
Yeah but reality is separate from any mind. Your daughter has an illness is all.
@@davidfrisken1617 explain to me how you can have a reality without a mind, consciousness, or it’s equivalent observing and validating it? Frankly any attempt to do so will prove one of two things, that A) you must have consciousness to have reality & that B) if there is stable reality beyond our own minds it is because there is consciousness beyond our own minds.
For all those willing to connect the dots and do a little logical reasoning around these ideas, what the stability and reality of our physical universe is telling us is that consciousness is around, within and observing all that is truly and verifiably real. It’s not god in the sense of dogmatic religion but it isn’t entirely different either. Consciousness (what I think of as a universal mind) observes and realizes the macroscopic universe down to the quantum level where things remain/revert to an uncertain possibility. I suspect that the quantum level is a bit like the empty piece on a puzzle box that is left empty so the picture isn’t rigid and the other squares can be moved into various combinations (it makes more things possible) but what we know for certain is that quantum mechanics has shown that conscious observation aka measurement does indeed collapse the quantum superposition into a measurable reality. The reason godless science is confounded by it is because their bias makes them refuse to consider that everything would be quantum and an uncertain possibility without overarching consciousness creating reality and what we know as General Relativity in the macroscopic universe.
I am not my thoughts I am not my mind I am not my body I am not my want my feeling my will the choice is not mine the freedom of choice is not mine nothing started in me it has nothing to do with me and the life i live is not for me and in the midst of what I do I think I feel there are motifs archetypes plans projects of possibilities that could be much greater more connected with greater purposes. ours is the freedom to contemplate the possibility of something greater here in this limited dimension, and to express love, joy and be strengthened to not express shame, fear, pride.
This way of looking at consciousness needs to be explored further. In medicine, some ailments may be caused or made worse by our brains making the wrong predictions. Think of high blood pressure as a response to stress. And in designing our world, especially user interfaces. Help the brain make predictions to make a UI more usable, and the humans using it more productive and happy while using it. We could do much more with this knowledge.
GREAT!! BUT!! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
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Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.
Reality is controlled Hallucination perceived to be beneficial to the body. Thank you for excellent talk with substance. Ferydoon Shirazi. MG1
I love waking up to realise I'm still asleep, I can do this multiple times before i am actually awake I can have a full on conversation with myself to wake up and no just another level down. This is 90 % fun but sometimes can be a real pain. Wouldn't have it any other way though. I live two lives how lucky am I
How??
I have done this before and it can’t be scary thinking your awake and then scary people walk into my room and I wake up over and over thinking I’m awake and each time it’s a different dream then when I really wake up I’m so scared and relieved
The boldest part of this talk is taking comments from an internet chat
Separating consciousness from sensation and agency feels like trying to separate time and space.
I find the definition of consciousness offered to be unconvincing
Time and space itself an illusion
@@aravind1290 Well it isn't because the universe still has a linear flow that will lead to the eventual destruction of all life....a linear flow is exactly what time is.
Yes of course reality is a hallucination, we only pull a small amount of relevant information from our surroundings and the brain generates the rest, all of our brains do it similarly enough that our hallucinations agree with each other, although I'm sure everyone perceives reality slightly differently.
‘Hallucinations’ are precipitated by spirits and invited entities from drugs or attachments. They are not indicative of the ‘illusionary state’ of this dream experience. Which is everything you’re experiencing right now with your five senses without hallucinations. Holographic images are not hallucinations but actual things you experience with all of your 5 senses. By design.
Interesting concept for sure hard to prove tho
Not saying I disagree, I always have like a creeping suspicion that everything I’ve ever known isn’t real or something but idk hard to prove with certainty lol my brains hallucination tells me my kind has been trying to do so for the last like x amount of years
@@dayday3688 your kind? Humans? All saints and sages have said reality is illusory, name and form for an all-pervasive consciousness.
perception and reality are pretty different, reality is never experienced "directly", that's what science is for
Reality IS a controlled hallucination, BUT the key to understand it is Who controls it. The function of mass hallucination is a shared experience, a vital part of any group activity and if demolished will cause a multitude of disbanned realities and individual loneliness and even mass panic.
@FilthyDankWastemanFabuless on the "third hand" ppl cant ALL be the queen bee..
The way he described why he didn’t like the two other theories makes me feel like one of them is right
This is so awesome
Everything is made out of consciousness… all molecules are consciousness ❤❤❤
My immediate thoughts after reading Chalmer's quote on the physical basis of consciousness were that we rarely look at the fields created by the neurological (electrical nature) of our brains. What to me is more interesting is that when we sleep we seem more like simpler organisms (annelids, sponges, Platyhelminthes, crustaceans) and when we are awake we seem to have consciousness. Perhaps consciousness is the aberration we have when we should be asleep.
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Arguably these fields are the armour of our subjectivity when awake, open to our own luxurious interpretation after experience.
We always have consciousness regardless of if asleep, awake, day dreaming or physically "dead". We are spirits inhabiting a physical body to experience this physical world. When we "die" we shed our physical body. We continue to live as spirit with the same personality and issues that we had seconds before we lost our body. We are ALWAYS spirit with or without a physical body. We can incarnate into any life form on any planet. We are spirit.
Conscious is an attribute of Spirit. Thus conscious exists outside physical reality and in the spiritual world where our Spirit lives. Our native language are thought forms. We communicate with spiritual world directly and instantaneously in thought forms. We communicate to our physical body via telekinesis (to control out body) and via esp (to input from our senses) which requires translation and is an indirect and slower process.
In regard to the starlings, isn;t it the same phenomenon that occurred amongst humans on the Millenium Bridge, in London when it began to sway. All of the people began to walk in the same manner. It was a reaction to the environment, collectively as the starlings are reacting to the environment, collectively. I am not a scientist, just a thought...
Incredible video. He elaborated every theory I had.
The reason we have consciousness is to evolve our communications! Ultimately uniting all with The One Groove!
These psychedelic states are similar to deep meditation. Interestingly epsilon, hyper-gamma and lambda brain states result in a very similar mystical "shamanic" experience. There has been some interesting research done in this field in the last decade. Brainwaves are at least something we can actually measure and they seem deeply related to our experience of consciousness.
The problem is most people are in OMICRON brain wave state. They are MORONIC. (Joke)
@@monmalin except what you said is entirely true 😆
ayep
That's the plan. Scare them enough with OMICRON and they won't think or question anything. And amazingly it WORKS.
GREAT!!! BUT! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
***
Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.
Very informative and logical. We think therefore we are, and we think because we are. Everything in between is a bunch of chemical influences.
We never see our eyes unless something is wrong with them, foggy, particles etc.
We never hear our ears unless if we do, we have hearing issues.
We never feel the inside of our head unless something aches or applies pressure within.
Consciousness is the unawareness of your own existence.
Because if you were aware of your consciousness, you are not 'here' but pondering.
Being unconscious is but being where you are right now.
I played professional baseball for a while, college ball etc and being capable of visualizing your body from the outside looking in- is very beneficial
I've had some pretty insane dreams. Ones with recurring people lately who I don't know but they seem to be my friends. It's so strange because usually the people in my dreams aren't recurring. It has been these 4 quadruplets 2 girls and 2 guys and usually they are helping me do something. Any ways the absolute strangest dream I had as of late was Star Gazing.
In the dream I was sitting next to this woman and looking at the stars back at my old childhood home. I've never seen stars in any dream that I can recall so this was mind blowing...but what happened next was COMPLETELY mind blowing....We saw this large cluster of stars shaped like a loaf of bread from the bakery. They were stationary then all of a sudden they dispersed like a meteor shower all across the sky. It was very intense there was no sense of fear like this was going to impact earth or anything. So anyway I get up and go to the garage and think to myself what the on earth was that! And I walk back outside to look at the stars yet again and this time I see the Milkyway Constellation....It was MASSIVE the colors were vivid with hues of blue purple and white and at the center was this huge hexagonal shape with tails spiraling from all corners. Then I woke up lol..anyways I feel like that dream shattered a bit of reality for me. IDK Just thought I'd share.
What a beautiful dream, a lovely mind you have there!
Fascinating, thank you. "I am"
Consciousness isn't just perceiving change its perceiving being (being in the moment). It's also thinking of other things; a drifting mind.
The picture that summarizes his great talk is AWESOME! Minute 01:03:30
The hard problem - the intuition arises from the fact that I'm not just conscious, I'm aware of being conscious. The question is, does the bat know it's a bat? Maybe it's not like anything to be a bat, the bat is unaware of its consciousness. This is self awareness, not just the fact that I'm awake and having experiences, but the ability to understand I'm awake and having experiences, and able to observe both of those things happening from a state of self awareness. Is a dog capable of thought experiment? Especially that which concerns his own experience? I suppose it's all just electrical signals firing in a lump of meat, but you can't blame one for believing there's more to it, we only see the ability in humans. It might be helpful if a bat could describe what it's like to be a bat.
Now this is a very good point
I think a bat can only describe it to another bat.
Nice text
@@cynthiacole6140 I swear my cats talk to each other. They sit in the kitchen acting all social. Well, Pepe is a little NSFW, but the other two are laid back.
@@dreadmoc12 I'm sure they do! Why do most humans discount the notion of animals verbalizing within their species?
Great explanation of free will.
My personal humble perspective about this, is that there is no real error computation happening in the brain during the process of learning, which is what the speaker mentioned and implied around minute 27 when talking about bayesian prediction and "how the brain tries to minimize the error between the out-in experiences and the in-out predictions/actions that we put into the world". His perspective is very much in line with the approach that artificial neural networks use nowadays, but the evidence that other scientists in the field have gotten shows this has nothing to do with the way that biological brains really work. There is no "ground truth" in the brain. We don't get a "true value we can compare our to, as so to calculate an error rate and make the neurons adjust to minimize that error", cause if this was the case, how would the brain manage the different time scales for error compensation?
In other words, there are things we experience in a very fast rate (like, for instance, temperature - if it's too hot the body needs to adjust to that and that it must sweat to reduce temperature, and that action needs to happen in the span of seconds), while other things have a much greater time scale (like learning how to master playing chess or the piano); so how would the neuron know when to expect that "ground-truth" from the real world to arrive, so it can compare it to its own prediction and calculate the error? From an architectural point of view (forgive my engineer side showing here) it seems absolutely implausible that 1) the neuron has any "knowledge" of how long it should "wait" until the signal it's receiving can be considered the "ground-truth" of a previous prediction made by itself and; 2) the neuron is able to uniquely and distinguishably store every prediction made in the past, so that they can be used once the theoretical "ground truth" arrives from the world in the future.
Again, in my humble opinion, and not being by any means an expert in this field, it seems much more likely that neurons follow very simple rules that have zero connection with the predictions they are making, but instead they are simply just trying to "sync" their firing with the inputs they receive in order to maximize something much more mundane and trivial like the amount of energy or "food" they can get by doing so (that is, this implies there is a mechanism by which a neuron that successfully fires and triggers a chain of firing in neurons down the line is "fed" more than a neuron that is and doesn't provoke any firing down the line). Consciousness and memory, in this case, would arise from the structure of the synaptic connections themselves; although this is PURE PERSONAL SPECULATION. They would be nothing but emergent properties. Similar to the flock of birds the speaker showed in his presentation, neurons are simply trying to get "as much food as possible", and this is accomplished by synching themselves with the signals they receive from previous neurons. At a low level (neuron scale) this seems silly, but at a very high level with billions of connections to excitatory and inhibitory neurons, with forward and backwards loop connections, it's not implausible that this causes this simple rule could lead to complex behavior like pattern detection. These ideas are strongly linked to Varela's and Maturana's concept of autopoiesis, by the way.
The connections between the neurons are the "highways" of the signals, and it's precisely that highway that ***IS*** our memory. That would also explain why we need to dream and/or think about events in our past, as by doing so we are "strengthening the highways", and thus "re-learning" the same thing over and over, by activating the same signals that event triggered in the past; and why this feels like we are "re-experiencing it" (and thus why remembering about that stressful situation in the past gives you a similar stress response, because you are literally activating the same neurons that into that reaction). Memory is just a mechanism for our brains to strengthen the connections between neurons for any given event that happened in the past. And from memory, I guess, **MAYBE** consciousness emerges.
my perception changed so much these past 3 years I dont even feel like im on the same planet or place anymore, I wake up sometimes and question if I am dead because of this, seems like people are stuck in a loop now, and dont change or react differently, just the same, things even look different, before it seemed like my perception & view was more wide and broad, now seems pinpointed and more weird.
Why do you think?
This was really, really good and speaks to a lot of thoughts/questions I've wondered about when taking a closer look at what it is to be conscious
Does this mean concepts like 'attachment' can be self referential? Ie. Emotional involvement as a form of attachment, whereby Emotions may act in their own accord, independent from reason
What a great Talk.
Thanks so much for the video and info.
I wish you All the best.
That bookshelf stuff was legendary
The moment a particle is a wave; it has to be a conscious wave! Gravity is the conscious attraction among waves to create the illusion of particles, and our experience-able Universe. Max Planck states "Consciousness is fundamental and matter is derived from Consciousness". Life is the Infinite Consciousness, experiencing the Infinite Possibilities, Infinitely.
We are "It", experiencing our infinite possibilities in our finite moment. Our job is to make it interesting!
Amazing talk. This seems like a legitimate path to continue exploring.
One of my thoughts on consciousness is everything is consciousness; ur body, ur thoughts, water, rock, once it exists it's consciousness
@@marcosa305 poetic? Consciousness is such a big issue, one prof claim it has over 1000 differences. I laughed then but now I am not too sure
Heavy metal accumulation and microbial parasitics interfere with so many things at so many levels. I've seen incredible improvements in spectrum disorders and other neurological disorders with antiparasitics. Everything emits frequency and they can be beneficial, harmful, and or interfere. The brain being a frequency receiving and transmitting transducer is vulnerable to interference frequencies of all types. Free radical accumulation in the brain from molecular oxidative stress can interfere and cause so many neurological associated disorders and conscious interference. We have to intentionally detox from heavy metal accumulation as our bodies struggle to rid of them itself. It's shown to mitigate symptoms of things thought never possible. It's changed the way I look at health and medicine completely.
How did he manage to turn such a fascinating subject into this uninspiring dullness?
I'm losing consciousness and falling asleep trying to watch this.