The role of consciousness in nature: An interview with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Part 2
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- Essentia Foundation's Natalia Vorontsova interviews psychiatrist and author Dr. Iain McGilchrist about his new work, "The Matter with Things," and the nature of reality. Unmissable!
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Humanity needs more people like Dr. Iain in all kinds of sciences. A great human being who embraces all which is part of our nature and tries his best to see the whole picture without naively denying or neglecting which isn't mainstream.
Ian McGildhrist strikes me again with his extensive, nuanced and profound erudition.
Regarding Essentia Foundation: I would love to see a dialogue between Ian McGilchrist and Bernardo Kastrup.
I Love this format - just coherent segments that relate directly to his point - brilliant! Thank you! So many people who interview Iain seem to want to use it as a platform to impress the audience with their intellect. True intellects are impressive precisely because they are not trying - it is second nature.
I like the idea that reality are points of interception between relations (movements) that we call things, patterns and perspectives.
Very interesting thanks!
Thanks for this.
Can someone tell me what music is playing at the start of the video? Sounded beautiful.
A very intelligent man. Looks like he could be in Abba ;)
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Consciousness is a process running in the brain. It takes input from external processes in order to track and predict what they will do. It generates outputs with the aim of being able to survive and replicate. This process becomes aware when it takes input summarising its own state, and tracks and predicts what itself will do - it recognises itself as a process. This includes measures of how well it is surviving and reproducing. Free will results from its outputs being available to it to inform future processing. 'Free' here means attributable to conscious decision-making, so that outcomes can drive learning that will improve future decision-making.
Sorry, but I do not see how this mechanistic perspective explains the reality of the human experience. It offers no satisfying explanation regarding how consciousness arises from matter - it is a theory baee on assumptions that make no sense to me. A neuroscientist friend of mine told me 'in my field we have no idea what a thought is, let alone consciousness.'
@@DadaNabhaniilanandaTheMonkDude Your body is just a flock of separate cells huddling together for warmth and safety in numbers. Some of them, in the brain, specialise in representing how the collective is doing and what it should do next. That has to be a single coherent narrative of what is going on for the flock as a whole. Without that, there would be no sense of you being a single thing-as-a-whole. You are merely a useful calculation and its anticedents and consequences.
24:27 ‘The reason that things are going wrong in our world is because men have forgotten God’.
The words of a modern prophet!
However, thankfully Iain’s God is not the biblical one but rather the Whiteheadian concept.
A breath of fresh air and hope for us all.
b rilliant