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Interesting that Bob says that intuition is the route into this process yet he intellectualises everything

Donald Hoffmann is pushing woke science =]

Vegetables is almost ALL carbs

He states very early on that he believes that he is surrounded by a world consisting of matter ("in the colloquial sense"). So how is he not a "materialist"? This is exactly what a typical materialist believes. He then proceeds to go through a lot of verbal and intellectual gymnastics to contend that materialism is something else, in order to refute it. I am so confused by this.

been stumbling with this since a shroom experience at 14... FINALLY at 60 lmao

Tom’s science based MBT makes so much sense. It helps me tremendously in understanding the nonsense that permeates our society at the moment. People are so filled with fear and have no concept of dealing with uncertainty gracefully. It is so clear to see how easy it is to be trapped in our beliefs and how it limits our growth

Word salad to deny the deniable.

I keep wondering if Bernardo is using Don and his team's math.

Do you have audiobooks in the library ? Please 🙏❤

Wouldn't the common trope of disbelief of an event, reducing or completely stoping that event from happening, potentially be a indication of the mind doing an observer effect (measuring the outcome of an event using too Destructive tools, changes the outcome of what's measured. Like trying to measure the position and speed of a baseball with a hammer, is going to obviously change the baseball right after "measuring") on matter itself. And the belive or disbelief of a event, could potentially link the mind or consciousness interacting with physical matter. Like the lamp with random colors being significatly less random when people think of the same color experiment

Chocolate and the descriptive word ,its the language that so integrated from birth its hard to separate the word from the object ,a syntax of wording is ingrained in us ,our words come from a separate entity within us though.

A shout to the mentally unwell that did the journey from the stars to earth whilst still in a living body on earth experiencing these theories,of the mind the mathematical equation is so complex no words could ever explain it ,it would be a binary code of infinite ones and zeros ,a true google.

Time and space is doomed ,it has to die

Let’s get this cleared up ;you are the simulation,THE reality.exsists but the simulation is your reality via a hallucinational experiance of perceptions via quantum mechanics

Of course it’s possible to feel compassion for every living being on the planet. It’s possible to feel compassion for consciousness itself.

Life functions consciously and unconsciously simultaneously. Therefore, consciousness is how something does something (adverb) - not what something is (noun). Reification is a popular logical fallacy.

How is this guy 68 and looking like a 40 year old!? That's the real mystery here ;;)

He's so wrong about resources. He's clearly drunk the US coolaid about "scarcity" & "competition" -- when what's wrong is deliberate maldistribution. Read Nancy Fraser's Cannibal Capitalism!

24:45 -- he used to 'believe' in determinism, but he looks back on that as "intellectual m*sturbation", and "it's not the world we live in." (???) "it's... uh, you know... you have to make decisions and uh, you have to confront multiple possibilities." (begging the question) ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? i'm baffled at such ludicrous mental gymnastics and intellectually dishonest weaseling. what even does that mean??? he's dismissing causal/acausal determinism due to what? vibes? wth??? 'uh, you know, uh, we have to eat cakes and uh, that's just the world we live in, it's uh, you have to choose cakes and i find lemon cake delicious, so lemon cake has the objective property of deliciousness' level of reasoning there. outrageously ridiculous mental gymnastics.

I love this guy. He’s so fresh & refreshing. Seriously fun to listen to. ❤

Great stuff! Have you considered exploring any non-dual approaches to the mind body problem? Would be amazing to see a guest like Swami Savrapriyananda on your podcast.

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AI could never, ever be self conscious, period.

33:05 Of course, energy transmits information-such as when a radio station’s sends my favorite song lyrics and sound encoded within waves that reach the tympanic membrane of my ears-so too, do electric and other energetic vibrations within EVERYTHING ELSE communicate information to one and all. I only wish humans would again recognize that EVERYTHING IS CONSCIOUS, even though humans have not yet realized a specific technology with which to yet “prove” it to themselves. Meanwhile in millions of ways, we interact with and navigate through it on a daily basis. 42:43 Actually… there have been MANY scientific experiments proving *TELEPATHY* to the standard of *SEVEN SIGMA.* _People MUST broaden their knowledge base to include recent works by many scientific psi research centers worldwide_ (one might begin with Dean Radin, as a single point of contact branching outward from there), again *_DEMONSTRATING_* (as far as science can) that information is transmitted vibrationally between people and objects and things regardless of time/space. 🎉 Finally, scientific evidence from many studies lends credibility to the notion that when we die, we remain in/part of the field as a retrievable information-communicating essence (of sorts; for lack of a better way to explain; it’s as though we are always information… we are born into a congealed form of info… we die and turn back into undifferentiated info again, but we never TRULY disappear)! ❤ Thank you for your show, it is very interesting!

I can watch this over and over and pick up something new every thing

Great podcast. It is an enlightened conversation. Especially I liked the analogy of someone detachedly playing the Avatar game. 🙏

There are several unconscious states (sleep, coma, some types of seizures) during which there is high synchronisation between neurons (e.g. in seizures large parts of the cortex can fire in sync). Wouldn't Johnjoe's theory predict a high level of consciousness in such states?

Thank you for this. I like to study consciousness scientifically and like to listen Johnjoe and Giulio Tononi (founder of scientific integrated information theory), which can be, just suggestion, maybe your new guest. Thanks again.

Did Tom just explain to a doctor what the corpus callosum is?

Not understanding a dang word. Usually I can reasonbly follow. Speak english..

New prospects Currently, an ideal system driven by AI (Artificial Intelligence) is seen in the world where universal basic income can be ensured for all. This is correct at the level of knowledge, but it must also be viewed at the level of consciousness. People need to be awakened to how they can accept all three natures within themselves and achieve their ultimate goal - Brahman - without challenging them. This goal has been held by every religion and community. It is not easy, but it is impossible without Sanatan. According to Sanatan, this is the Kaliyuga, whose path leads to the Satyuga, where everyone finds themselves prosperous, wealthy, and peaceful. This is the journey of nature, not of influential people. Sanatan always stays with nature, not with influential people. Therefore, prosperity is not possible by becoming influential through AI. The message of the elections must be understood, and without becoming influential, India's development must be put on the path of the "Developed India 2047" mission with the mantra of everyone's support and development. This will ensure real prosperity for the world by participating in the world's tri-power. As Ghalib says, when nature is with us, why fear the aged body, and when we are determined to win at the level of consciousness, why fear the so-called electoral defeat. Greetings to all on the election results and World Environment Day - let’s move with nature. Dr. Shailendra Bharat National Political and Strategic Advisor, Maulik Bharat

I am a physicist and I will explain why our scientific knowledge refutes the idea that consciousness is generated by the brain and that the origin of our mental experiences is physical/biological . My argument proves that the fragmentary structure of brain processes implies that brain processes are not a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness, which existence implies the existence in us of an indivisible unphysical element, which is usually called soul or spirit (in my youtube channel you can find a video with more detailed explanations). I also argue that all emergent properties are subjective cognitive contructs used to approximately describe underlying physical processes, and that these descriptions refer only to mind-dependent entities. Consciousness, being implied by these cognitive contructs, cannot itself be an emergent property. Preliminary considerations: the concept of set refers to something that has an intrinsically conceptual and subjective nature and implies the arbitrary choice of determining which elements are to be included in the set; what exists objectively are only the single elements. In fact, when we define a set, it is like drawing an imaginary line that separates some elements from all the other elements; obviously this imaginary line does not exist physically, independently of our mind, and therefore any set is just an abstract and subjective cognitive construct and not a physical entity and so are all its properties. Similar considerations can be made for a sequence of elementary processes; sequence is a subjective and abstract concept. Mental experience is a precondition for the existence of subjectivity/arbitrariness and cognitive constructs, therefore mental experience cannot itself be a cognitive construct; obviously we can conceive the concept of consciousness, but the concept of consciousness is not actual consciousness. (With the word consciousness I do not refer to self-awareness, but to the property of being conscious= having a mental experiences such as sensations, emotions, thoughts, memories and even dreams). From the above considerations it follows that only indivisible elements may exist objectively and independently of consciousness, and consequently the only logically coherent and significant statement is that consciousness exists as a property of an indivisible element. Furthermore, this indivisible entity must interact globally with brain processes because we know that there is a correlation between brain processes and consciousness. This indivisible entity is not physical, since according to the laws of physics, there is no physical entity with such properties; therefore this indivisible entity can be identified with what is traditionally called soul or spirit. The soul is the missing element that interprets globally the distinct elementary physical processes occurring at separate points in the brain as a unified mental experience. Some clarifications. The brain doesn't objectively and physically exist as a mind-independent entity since we create the concept of the brain by separating an arbitrarily chosen group of quantum particles from everything else. This separation is not done on the basis of the laws of physics, but using addictional subjective criteria, independent of the laws of physics; actually there is a continuous exchange of molecules with the blood and when and how such molecules start and stop being part of the brain is decided arbitrarily. Brain processes consist of many parallel sequences of ordinary elementary physical processes occurring at separate points. There is no direct connection between the separate points in the brain and such connections are just a subjective abstractions used to approximately describe sequences of many distinct physical processes. Indeed, considering consciousness as a property of an entire sequence of elementary processes implies the arbitrary definition of the entire sequence; the entire sequence as a whole (and therefore every function/property/capacity attributed to the brain) is a subjective abstraction that does not refer to any mind-independendent reality. Physicalism/naturalism is based on the belief that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain. However, an emergent property is defined as a property that is possessed by a set of elements that its individual components do not possess; my arguments prove that this definition implies that emergent properties are only subjective cognitive constructs and therefore, consciousness cannot be an emergent property. Actually, all the alleged emergent properties are just simplified and approximate descriptions or subjective/arbitrary classifications of underlying physical processes or properties, which are described directly by the fundamental laws of physics alone, without involving any emergent properties (arbitrariness/subjectivity is involved when more than one option is possible; in this case, more than one possible description). An approximate description is only an abstract idea, and no actual entity exists per se corresponding to that approximate description, simply because an actual entity is exactly what it is and not an approximation of itself. What physically exists are the underlying physical processes. Emergence is nothing more than a cognitive construct that is applied to physical phenomena, and cognition itself can only come from a mind; thus emergence can never explain mental experience as, by itself, it implies mental experience. My approach is scientific and is based on our scientific knowledge of the physical processes that occur in the brain; my arguments prove that such scientific knowledge excludes the possibility that the physical processes that occur in the brain could be a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness. Marco Biagini

Interesting idea that warrants some investigation. The guy is wrong about conscious thought being serial only however as humans can consciously multi task. And unconscious processes count for at least 70% of our behaviour - a much greater percentage than most people realise....

What a sincere humane this man

For me conscience and consciousness are not the same thing a zombie is conscience since it can turn from being conscience to becoming a zombie,now consciousness is ability to see through outward and inwardly though rarely anyone can, consciousness say it in another way is closer to conscienceless,is being conscience with no subject/object relationships it is the third awareness in action

Dr. McFadden, thank you! I teach cognitive science and physics at University level, you definitely offer something worth considering. Unifying the problem of our virtual reality, internal model with the field math and theory we use for the external, physical reality. May I politely offer, Dr McFadden? There IS more than 7-sigma confirmation of SOME ESP and other phenomenon. 7-sigma is difficult to ignore. Please consider researching Dr. Dean Radin and his research. Studies and Meta-studies of this issue have indeed produced more than 7-sigma positive results. May I say for my own part? I am the scientist's scientist. I have always joked and said I believe in no fairies, ghosties, lepruchans. But I am certain that the day my mother died, I knew, 100% knew for 9 hours before I received a call from 5000 kms away, a family I did not talk to for 15 years and had zero reason to believe she would be dying that day. For 9 hours I felt an odd heaviness. I kept repeating to myself, out loud, for 9 hours, "Later today when you get a call from your brother saying mom died, remember that you 100% felt this and knew it already. Do not let anyone convince you that it is any kind of coincidence." Nine hours, 60 minutes per hour, I felt definite, solid, complete assurance that she was dead. There was no possible transmission by photons or any boson (nor fermion) based communication's method. I hadn't talked to them in 15 years and wouldn't for 15 years after. No contact, no calls. 5000 kms away. One day, the exact day. 9 hours. An odd symptom, "heaviness" and complete knowledge, before the call I then DID receive, from my brother. When I heard his voice I said, before he said anything, "I already know, she died, I felt it." He then said this. That symptom, "heavy pressure" and complete knowledge of a thing never felt before and never after. There is definitely some psychic something that science needs to research. Maybe neutrinos. Maybe .. tachyons. Maybe a normal physical thing. But our brains can definitely receive and perhaps transmit information in some odd unexplained manner. Good luck to you.

I have a weird thought that pass me through maybe telepathy is synchronization of tow or several person's thoughts,

Let take a cause as a departure axiom than it's impact is not one effect it is infinite effects,thus the supposed "cause"started from infinite effects, consequently the 'causality' background patterns moves as electromagnetic waves,is similar for informations as soon as they aren't perceptible they get stored in matter around them

Haw about genes and cells they also have to have a magnetic field around them which is a sort of communication no material device, I has a sensation that truth initial Matrix is there, but I need confirmation of professional in that these fields.

Brilliant talk....very informative. I got McFadden's book 20 years ago when it first came out and have been a long time fan of the theory. IMO, probably one of the most coherent theories out there. However, I was surprised that he stated no one has performed the calculations linking EM fields of the brain with neural activity and how they influence each other. This would seem to be a relatively simple thing to do. Any thoughts on this?

" This is not a personal problem, it is a philosophical question. Our lives are both predestined and they are not. Both yes and no. And both answers are true for all questions about life. In a way, everything is predetermined. Whatever is physical in you, material, whatever is mental, is predetermined. But something in you constantly remains undetermined, unpredictable. That something is your consciousness. If you are identified with your body and your material existence, in the same proportion you are determined by cause and effect. Then you are a machine. But if you are not identified with your material existence, with either body or mind - if you can feel yourself as something separate, different, above and transcendent to body-mind - then that transcending consciousness is not predetermined. It is spontaneous, free. Consciousness means freedom; matter means slavery. So it depends on how you define yourself. If you say, ”I am only the body,” then everything about you is completely determined. A person who says that man is only the body cannot say that man is not predetermined. Ordinarily, persons who do not believe in such a thing as consciousness also do not believe in predetermination. Persons who are religious and believe in consciousness ordinarily believe in predetermination. So what I am saying may look very contradictory. But still, it is the case. A person who has known consciousness has known freedom. So only a spiritual person can say there is no determination at all. That realization comes only when you are completely unidentified with the body. If you feel that you are just a material existence, then no freedom is possible. With matter, no freedom is possible. Matter means that which cannot be free. It must flow in the chain of cause and effect. Once someone has achieved consciousness, enlightenment, he is completely out of the realm of cause and effect. He becomes absolutely unpredictable. You cannot say anything about him. He begins to live each moment; his existence becomes atomic. Your existence is a river-like chain in which every step is determined by the past. Your future is not really future; it is just a by-product of the past. It is only the past determining, shaping, formulating and conditioning your future. That is why your future is predictable. Skinner says that man is as predictable as anything else. The only difficulty is that we have not yet devised the means to know his total past. The moment we can know his past, we can predict everything about him. Based upon the people he has worked with, Skinner is right, because they are all ultimately predictable. He has experimented with hundreds of people and he has found that they are all mechanical beings, that nothing exists within them that can be called freedom. But his study is limited. No Buddha has come to his laboratory to be experimented upon. If even one person is free, if even one person is not mechanical, not predictable, Skinner’s whole theory falls. If one person in the whole history of mankind is free and unpredictable, then man is potentially free and unpredictable. The whole possibility of freedom depends on whether you emphasize your body or your consciousness. If you are just an outward flow of life, then everything is determined. Or are you something inner also? Do not give any preformulated answer. Do not say, ”I am the soul.” If you feel there is nothing inside you, then be honest about it. This honesty will be the first step toward the inner freedom of consciousness. If you go deeply inside, you will feel that everything is just part of the outside. Your body has come from without, your thoughts have come from without, even your self has been given to you by others. That is why you are so fearful of the opinion of others - because they are completely in control of your self. They can change their opinion of you at any moment. Your self, your body, your thoughts are given to you by others, so what is inside? You are layers and layers of outside accumulation. If you are identified with this personality of yours that comes from others, then everything is determined. Become aware of everything that comes from the outside and become non-identified with it. Then a moment will come when the outside falls completely. You will be in a vacuum. This vacuum is the passage between the outside and the inside, the door. We are so afraid of the vacuum, so afraid of being empty that we cling to the outside accumulation. One has to be courageous enough to disidentify with the accumulation and to remain in the vacuum. If you are not courageous enough, you will go out and cling to something, and be filled with it. But this moment of being in the vacuum is meditation. If you are courageous enough, if you can remain in this moment, soon your whole being will automatically turn inward. When there is nothing to be attached to from the outside, your being turns inward. Then you know for the first time that you are something that transcends everything you have been thinking yourself to be. Now you are something different from becoming; you are being. This being is free; nothing can determine it. It is absolute freedom. No chain of cause and effect is possible. Your actions are related to past actions. A created a situation for B to become possible; B creates a situation in which C flowers. Your acts are connected to past acts and this goes back to the beginningless beginning and on to the endless end. Not only do your own acts determine you, but your father’s and mother’s acts also have a continuity with yours. Your society, your history, all that has happened before, is somehow related to your present act. The whole history has come to flower in you. Everything that has ever happened is connected with your act, so your act is obviously determined. It is such a minute part of the whole picture. History is such a vital living force and your individual act is such a small part of it. Marx said, ”It is not consciousness that determines the conditions of society. It is society and its conditions that determines consciousness. It is not that great men create great societies. It is great societies that create great men.” And he is right in a way, because you are not the originator of your actions. The whole history has determined them. You are just carrying them out. The whole evolutionary process has gone into the making of your biological cells. These cells in you can then become part of another person. You may think that you are the father, but you have just been a stage on which the whole biological evolution has acted and has forced you to act. The act of procreation is so forceful because it is beyond you; it is the whole evolutionary process working through you. This is one way in which acts happen in relation to other past acts. But when a person becomes enlightened, a new phenomenon begins to happen. Acts are no longer connected with past acts. Any act, now, is connected only with his consciousness. It comes from his consciousness not from the past. That is why an enlightened person cannot be predicted. Skinner says that we can determine what you will do if your past acts are known. He says that the old proverb, ”You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink,” is wrong. You can force him to. You can create an atmosphere so that the horse will have to drink. The horse can be forced, and you also can be forced, because your actions are created by situations, by circumstances. But even though you can bring a buddha to the river, you cannot force him to drink. The more you force him, the more impossible it will be. No heat will make him do it. Even if a thousand suns shine on him it will not help. A Buddha has a different origin of action. It is not concerned with other acts; it is connected with consciousness. That is why I emphasize that you act consciously. Then, every moment you act, it is not a question of a continuation of other acts. You are free. Now you begin to act, and no one can say how you will act. Habits are mechanical; they repeat themselves. The more you repeat something, the more efficient you become. Efficiency means that now consciousness is no longer needed. If a person is an efficient typist it means that no effort is needed; typing can be done unconsciously. Even if he is thinking about something else the typing continues. The body is typing; the man is not needed. Efficiency means that the thing is so certain that no effort is possible. With freedom, effort is always possible. A machine cannot make errors. To err, one has to be conscious. So your acts have a chain relationship with your previous acts. They are determined. Your childhood determines your youth; your youth determines your old age. Your birth determines your death; everything is determined. Buddha used to say, ”Provide the cause, and the effect will be there.” This is the world of cause and effect in which everything is determined. If you act with total consciousness, an altogether different situation exists. Then everything is moment to moment. Consciousness is a flow; it is not static. It is life itself, so it changes. It is alive. It goes on expanding; it goes on becoming new, fresh, young. Then, your acts will be spontaneous."

When neurons fires they don't only determined by what other neurones receive as impulses but also they create a magnetic field(s) that also expose the totality of the brain of what is going on so simultaneously we tow sorts of information one local other global

I Love this wonderful human Donald Hofmann, my big question is: isn't the amplituhedron also something that, the scientists project while they are looking for something out there, just like the quantum physicist project the quantum particles while they are looking for them. When we are looking for something, we are creating it...

There is huge moral danger in creating conscious AI! We could be unwittingly creating beings that suffer immensely and we could be none the wiser. Before we understand the nature of pain/pleasure (valence/hedonic tone) it would be incredibly reckless to attempt to create conscious AI. Valence/suffering should be the #1 priority of consciousness research.

Penrose made a pretty good case against consciousness being algorithmic computation. Whatever it is it's not that. The idea of it being a sort of continuous integration of all the states of the various components that make up a brain is interesting and there are many possibilities to explore as to how that could generate qualia. The micro tubule involvement brought forth by Hameroff can't really be counted out unless it can be shown that the anesthetized state is truly an unconscious state rather than an just an altered state of conciousness, like alcohol or drug intoxication.

remote veiwing?

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No scientific evidence for telepathy? Really?? McFadden demonstrates the common held notion by many materialist scientists that if something goes against their firm beliefs and faith in modern science, it must be impossible and therefore it is not worth investigating the wealth of scientific studies that are out there. Why would the CIA spend over 20 years funding programs such as Stargate that provide almost unequivocal proof of the existence of remote viewing. Why ignore the work of people like Dean Radin, who uses strict scientific and statistical protocols that support the case for telepathy, etc. Perhaps he should also check out the work of the Institute of Near Death Studies, with countless reports showing veridical evidence of patients on the operating table under anaesthetic/cardiac arrest/clinically dead (sometimes with eye masks and brain monitoring ear pieces in) relating provable information about procedures and conversations between the medics in the room. He should read the work of Dr. Bruce Greyskn, a formerly materialist metro-scientist whose own near death experience forced him to completely re-evaluate his notion of what consciousness is and the likelihood that it survives death. Or read Raymond Moody’s classic book, Life after Life, which he wrote as a skeptic forensic psychiatrist but concluded there must be something to it! Or read Leslie Kean’s book “Surviving Death” (and associated Netflix series or the same name) for astounding examples of kids who claim to have had former lives that turn out to be real people, with information about them that the child could not have possibly have discovered (pre-internet, pre-reading age sometimes, etc). I say all this as a previous atheist with a degree in genetics. However, an open mind coupled with some of my own strange experiences have led me down the NDE/survival of death/source consciousness rabbit hole, with countless accounts that leaves me in no doubt it’s reality, and that ultimately we are all tiny droplets of the infinite ocean of “God consciousness”…whatever that is?!! Unknowable and ineffable…😜

❤❤❤Hello. With the help of the “HYBRID gyroscope” you can make scientific discoveries; in astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, higher theoretical physics,... I am writing to you with a proposal for the joint invention of a HYBRID gyroscope from non-circular, TWO coils with a new type of optical fiber with a “hollow core photonic-substituted vacuum zone or (NANF)” where - the light travels 48000 meters in each arm, while it does not exceed the parameters 40/40/40 cm, and the weight is 4 kg. Manufacturers of “Fiber Optic Gyroscopes” can produce HYBRID gyroscopes for educational and practical use in schools and higher education institutions. Einstein dreamed of measuring the speed of a train, an airplane - through the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1881/2024, and only then would the experiment be more than 70% complete. This can be done using a fiber optic HYBRID gyroscope. Based on the completion of more than 70% of Michelson's experiment, the following postulates can be proven: Light is an ordered vibration of gravitational quanta, and dominant gravitational fields adjust the speed of light in a vacuum. (We are not looking for ether, we will see the work of gravitational quanta) The result is a «theory of everything» in a simple teaching device and a new tape measure for measuring the universe.

Spiritual energy - quantum consciousness - is a far better storage and transmission mechanism than electromagnetism. The physical universe is the most limited one, not the most conscious. Materialist science has become worse than the Spanish Inquisition in it's hallowed dogma.