Yes, it is fundamental :) We are ever-evolving, immortal, non-physical beings having a temporary human experience in this "virtual reality", and the purpose of our lives here is to increase the quality of our consciousness through learning and evolving by making good and bad choices. For those of you who enjoyed this documentary and would like to learn more about how our reality truly works, you might want to consider watching former NASA physicist and consciousness / out-of-body expert Tom Campbell's MBT Science Trilogy series here on TH-cam. It is nothing short of life-changing and revolutionary.
Ontological idealism claims that the act of seeing is fundamental to reality. and there is no seeing without becoming of continuity ... You should have mentioned A. N, Whitehead.
@@aleksandarmilenkovic5861 Thank you for these thoughts. I agree that Whitehead is relevant to this discussion, yet he is a highly sophisticated thinker with many distinct terms and ideas. Covering his work would require an entire video.
I loved this video for a particular reason. I am an engineering graduate from the foremost school of technology in India (and now world renowned) named IIT (Indian Institute of Technology). Although my education was totally "scientific" and thus "materialistic", i grew up surrounded by the Vedic tradition of Vedanta philosophy which posited (5,000+ years ago) the concept of "Neutral Monism" called Advaita, which translated means "NON-DUALITY" with the name "Brahman" as the SOLE underlying Reality with the ONLY "attribute" of "Awareness". Listening to this podcast was Deja Vu!👏
Consciousness is not objective it cannot be measured, it is subjective, and we cannot measure love on a scale or document it for further study. First, we have to understand we are conscious, but science dictates that we are flesh. There is no subconsciousness and it was written down by people who have no idea of consciousness I am aware that I am peaceful that is consciousness. Subconsciousness may be delusion.
I am at the foremost school of (Vedic) spirituality in America, Maharishi International University. My education before was also materialistic, but now I get to study 'Vedic Science', the science and experience of consciousness. MIU basically teaches Vedanta. Ancient wisdom is finally becoming re enlivened.
I am a science graduate and earlier I thought only through the lenses of materialism until recently. As I dig deep into origin of universe, life and consciousness my belief into something beyond our eyes could see our brains could comprehend becomes stronger.
Sort of the same. No degree but huge science fan. Spent most of my life as a staunch materialist. The deeper I look at reality and into my own mind, I find this belief structure to be lacking.
I've looked at several TH-cam entries on 'Consciousness" and so far this is the most clearly-explained and compelling one. I come away from watching/hearing this with a much more comforting and fascinated viewpoint than I had before.
Partner, I have been thinking about consciousness since I was fifteen and over the course of the years I "got it"; I recognized the fundamental strangeness of consciousness and its inability to be explained by the reigning doctrines of materialist scientism. Countless times I have tried breathlessly to explain it to people and I am always amazed to find that so few see the magic. Thank you for your channel.
A very similar experience for me, I only heard the word panpsychism yesterday but I had a "great epiphany" in 2015 where it all 'clicked'.. in my enthusiasm and personal clarity I tried again and again to explain it... their eyes would glaze over. I've since been content to let it be and I find so much clarity in this perspective that I don't need to convince anyone of it... it will become self evident over time. Good to find others who are willing to surrender their materialism for something much more powerful.
@@ΠαναγιωτηςΑγγελ very true, one of the inevitable truths that is revealed in panpsychism is the eternal nature of consciousness. Eternal means there is always more, and the more we know... the more we know we DONT know. Science has uncovered far more questions than answers... wisdom is actually just greater awareness of ignorance. And there lies our potential. We are like infants in a library. Until we know we are ignorant we cannot learn. The materialists today think they are scholars in that library... and yet their religion is founded on random chance. 🤔 What panpsychism delivers is the awareness of this ignorance and invites inquiry, curiosity and the opening of new chapters. It embraces it in an unspeakable way. "The words of truth are always paradoxical" Lao Tzu
@@nty3929 That’s a valid point, though far from scientific. e.g. if ANY scientist had taken your stand on any theory that had not yet been defined and measured there would be no science. Before Newton, nobody believed the force of Gravity solved any problems. Before Einstein, nobody believed relativity solved any problems. They both believed and pursued these ideas before they were able to define or measure them. Science is about curiosity, investigation and discovering a way to define and measure reality. The double slit experiment is the beginning of observing consciousness in light. As more minds consider this possibility I predict a beautiful formula will emerge similar to e=mc2. We didn’t have a way to measure the energy in matter before Einstein defined it so beautifully… he never would have sought to define it or measure it if he took your stand. "it doesn't solve anything" , is irrelevant to Science. The question that should be asked: "Is it True?"
I said it about your video about the simulation theory, and i say it about this too, Phenomenal editing, so well put together, the images the music, timing of the clips, the information and the narative of voice. This is in my opinion a video that is one of THE best on youtube right now, cutting edge subject for mankind to study and pursue, the coming years will show how important. Thank you for dedicating this kind of attention to every part of your video, and i hope you stay close to the edge 😊 of the frontiers of human potential, and understanding of what it is that we call reality.
I was indoctrinated into the scientific materialistic mentality for most of my life. Checkout my channel if you want to see my journey in expanding my consciousness.
I think that most consciousness explorers (people that try out of body experiences) tend to agree that consciousness is fundamental, and all realities are virtual. Welcome to the Matrix.
Nelson, thank you again for your hard work that brings us more insights in where we are at as developing human beings. Your synthesis of the evolution of science and philosophy encourages us to extract our own views on the world at large. Once more we are reminded of the limitations and deceptions of our physical senses. I have not witnessed anyone to bring such a clear and complete report of human endeavors in a half an hour elaboration.
Wow. Blown away. This might just be the way it is! Conciousness may be fundamental to the whole of the Universe - and the conciousness I experience is then just a perspective and an aggregate of the conciousness of the cells of my body, which all have their own conciousness(es). In a way also on the molecular level. This was a liberating idea. Thank you. 🌟🌱
I was so glad to see that this was out. Maybe the best overview production I've seen on the subject. I'm surprised you didn't bring up Donald Hoffman's conscious agents Theory. I did see a quick shot of him. Along more psychological lines, is Ian McGilchrist's work on the relationships between the hemispheres of the brain. It gives a wonderful account of how we've arrived at the world we currently live in. His 2009 book "The Master and His Emissary" and soon to be released book "The Matter With Things" should be read by anyone seriously interested in consciousness. I think he'll be instrumental in our advancing beyond a world of toddlers who think we're hot shit because we have rockets and computers. After a full blown, spontaneous, nearly instantaneous kundalini awakening in the seventies and 45 years of subsequent meditation sprinkled with intense psychedelic experiences, I assert that consciousness is, preceding time, and that everything else is an expression of it. Pure, infinite, cosmic, God consciousness is, and it's nature is to express itself. It is the only thing that is really real - everything else comes and goes, but it just is. Consciousness is; awareness implies one that is aware and something to be aware of - the observer and the observed; perception adds the process, giving the observer, the thing that is observed, and the observation - something happens. I use a hierarchical structure with unity at the peak and multiplicity at the base as the primary structure for my framework for understanding my experience of the world. Of course it's just a way of connecting the dots and is not actually what is. Anything describing reality, isn't reality. The best we can do is create models or frameworks that are more or less accurate, detailed, and comprehensive.
Thank you for sharing this. Unfortunately there are many important thinkers who could not be fit into this brief account. I have interviewed Donald before, so if you're interested in that interaction you can listen to it on my channel. Thank you for the suggestion of Ian McGilchrist's ideas, I will look into his work in the future.
@@nty3929Or you could say that the universe is a projection of consciousness, and that nothing created consciousness which simply is. That is a sense in which consciousness is fundamental.
I am convinced that the fundamental "ground" of reality is "consciousness"; but this is just the beginning of the adventure... We will not throw away any of our knowledge... however we will have to recast part of it... and we will have to discover much more than what we were able up until now.
Of course it is & I don't need to watch a video to know consciousness is everything, it is reality, plain & simple, its what reality really is 🧠 Our brains are not the source of consciousness either, they transmit & receive, we're in a layered conscious multiverse, consciousness determines reality without a doubt
I was indoctrinated into the scientific materialistic mentality for most of my life. It's all a lie used to mask the true reality of the universe. Checkout my channel if you want to see my journey in expanding my consciousness.
If we are to reject dualism and embrace monism, then there is only one intrinsic nature of reality. If that one intrinsic nature is consciousness, then consciousness is not only fundamental to reality, it is exhaustive of reality. This would entail idealism, but one can still be an idealist _and_ a panpsychist, like Timothy Sprigge.
@@metaRising Brilliant! I commend you for your conjunction of idealism and panpsychism, I think that is a formidable combination. In the future it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on other forms of idealism, like the pluralism of John McTaggart or the absolute idealism of F.H. Bradley.
I am 85 now but I remember clearly the instant when I became conscient. It is like waking and be conscient of reality. I was then 9 months old, my mother told me years later.
I believe that once you detach from the mind and body you are then only awareness. At that point you are able to design your awareness and this awareness will now materialize into your external reality….
Might this happened to every living being since the beginning of time but whatever not even with million years scientific progress or breakthrough we will pinpoint the truth of how that aspect of the universe works if it is one direction
In order to understand🧘Consciousness one must be fully🌅conscious🧠. Most people are not fully conscious, like those steeped in abstraction, but not awareness, that is far greater than mere consciousness. The☯️Way is being alert to Mind!
This is the best video I have ever seen. And your way of explaining the history and the frontiers is a pure joy to listen to. I'm just curious, Gregory Bateson, where does he fit in all of this?
Nice overview. But I can't believe you didn't cover the measurement problem in QM. One of the biggest indicators of the fundamental nature of awareness.
Life, consciousness and self-awareness have been integrated from the beginning of proto-life; from the development of the initial self-replicating nucleus protected by a cell wall that allowed diffusion inward chemicals for energy production and outward of toxic materials. In a mass of available chemicals the proto-cell had the need to decide which energy producing material to allow in and which to deny access; in effect "I choose this one. I do not want that one" This would be the beginning of self-awareness and consciousness that developed in all life forms of the planet earth over the next 3.5 billion years acting in different ways in different life forms
This video has a lot of eyes and perspective shots from behind the head. Also spaces filled with subtle light forms. Irrespective of whatever is being said, they create a sort of argument, themselves, regarding the nature of experience-a sheer sensitivity to impression, like a living mirror.
Great piece of video, the best I have seen in capturing the history and present state for the study of consciousness. With Cognitive Psychology still being dominated by materialism and reductionalism, it's a huge relief to see that the truth-seeking spirit has become alive again in Science in the recent years! As mentioned in the video, modern science apparently had been kidnapped by scientists who only see science in a pure materialist worldview; they largely treat science as a tool to conquer nature or even worse as a means to achieve their personal fame and security (unfortunately, most people in academic research fall into this category).
Thank you so much for a knowledgeable and strongly reasoned case for idealism. SO GLAD that transcripts are available!! It is more time efficient for me to copy and format the transcript and review it than to learn audibly.
Consciousness as "the act of manifestation" is the True thing. It's the fundamental force that gives rise to experience and existence of all kind of forms and realities. Consciousness as "the imprinted memories", "perceptions" or "thinking" is by this unlimited and infinite act of manifestation between multiple layers and networks of co-working with itself. Consciousness as "the feeling" is by the combination of the previous two. "Matter" is just an illusion made by a complex, recursive and abstract system of thought.
Wondering how Bernardo Kastrup was not acknowledged here, but that aside it is a valuable and artful primer via which to consider the primacy of consciousness. Thanks for creating and sharing it.
Barnardo is an interesting thinker, and I hope to have him on the podcast at some point. We appear to disagree in our valuation of panpsychism but there is a lot of common ground between us. Sadly, many important thinkers could not be mentioned here simply because of the constraints of time.
@@MonisticIdealism Well, idealism, insofar as it relates to cosmopsychism, is mentioned toward the end as a premise consistent with what Russell/Eddington were proposing. So whether one agrees with that or not, in considering idealism at all, BK's body of work seems surely worthy of mention. Maybe next time.
@@wanderingthepeaks I agree, Bernardo does seem noteworthy at least in relation to the cosmopsychism discussion, even though he argues against it. Another person I think is worth noting is Timothy Sprigge: he was an idealist _and_ a panpsychist. So it is possible to be both.
The Cosmos, Universe, whatever you want, is running a fantastically huge SETI@HOME system. All "thinking" units are united yet independent enough to allow for individualism. "Group Think" when needed. All units connected also to the main hub. Anything created requires affirmative intentions.
Very thought-provoking stuff. Interesting to see the progression of belief and knowledge down the centuries. One day this will all be perhaps the normal view as it becomes more widely proven and accepted. Great work in producing such a quality presentation. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and knowledge.
no-one has ever experienced the universe without consciousness. i don't know if either the universe or consciousness are fundamental, but at least consciousness is more certain than the unvierse. i believe that consciousness is more fundamental than the universe.
Brilliant. All the great sages were researchers in consciousness. Three in one nature of consciousness. Vedanta: Rishi, Devata, Chhandas. Mind, matter, information. Father, son Holy Spirit. Mind, matter, information . Water, vapour, ice : one substance, three states.
Excellent podcast! Thank you for your comprehensive presentation and clear, concise and comprehendible elucidation of subjects I have recently been struggling to understand. I can now see ''panpsychism'' as a plausible and convincing theory of reality.
In India all the Vedas and Upanishads talks about the level of consciousness, as how it is working as a fundamental source of existence and how it is evolving, consciousness is defined as Aatma (Self) that is the part of Bramh (Universal consciousness) and body and mind is just a manifestation of it.
Just watched the video for the second time with more attention…. Such a great insightful video you have made here. Learnt quite allot and I feel I’m now more open to panpsychism than I have been previously.
A big thank you to the TH-cam Algorithm Gods for landing this video in my feed! Excellent content. Cant wait to see what else you have on your channel. 👍
ALL IS CONSCIOUSNESS! The Universe/Multiverse is conscious, whether one believes so or not. Consciousness and existence are one and the same. "As Above, So Below ... As within, So without ... As the Universe, So the Soul" (Hermes Trismegistus).
We’ll done video, with good narrative direct to the point, nice templates and good instrumental música in the right volume in the background. But I think you could have mentioned Donald Hoffman theory “Consciousness Realism and the mind- body problem” (by the way he did appear in one of the scenes.).
We place a great deal of emphasis on the role and nature of consciousness, even to the point of asking whether it is a fundamental aspect of reality. Yet, in the Buddhist sutra called the Heart Sutra we are told that everything we experience, all our sensory data, all our feelings, all our thoughts and even our consciousness is fundamentally still a part of of an illusion - it is not what it appears to be. The real 'fundamental' lies beyond everything we can think about, or comprehend with the rational mind. Hence consciousness, far from being fundamental is simply still 'empty'.
Great work! Thank you! Most of the videos about consciousness are naive or full of pseudoreligious narratives. Here we have a summary of historical achievements on this field and some interesting new directions.
Why do we exist? Well if the alternative is complete nothingness, no experience, no matter, nothing. Does it make sense now? What is matter when there is nothing to experience it? on/off, consciousness/matter, life/death, black/white. This video really clicked some suspicions I had about the nature of consciousness.
IIT makes a lot of sense to me. Information in our brains links us somehow to Mind because of the electrical charge therein, hence a magnetic field is created and a type of Consciousness is formed. Fascinating! Magnetism is a form of Consciousness, but magnetism is a type of force or power, and an idea of Consciousness or Mind. Just a theory.
This is a really good presentation. I would however argue that the word "physical" is being conflated with the word "material". If this were cleared-up, it would help make sense of some of the problems. For example, it would eliminate the argument that consciousness cannot be physical. The suggestion we want here isn't that the physical brain isn't responsible for consciousness, but that the materials of the brain are so radically different from that of consciousness, that the two don't appear to be causally connected. We see this type of relationship with electromagnets. If we were to simply look at some copper and iron, and believe in an invisible thing called electricity, we still couldn't know in advance that together they can produce another invisible force called electromagnetism - and we don't judge this situation to be non-physical. The same rationale can be applied to the brain-body system - the system we call "us". What's more, the ripples generated from dropping the metaphorical pebble in this particular part of the ontological pond, spread out and intersect with others in advantageous ways. For example it solves questions about personal identity that in-turn affect the criteria needed for there to be such a thing as afterlives - but that's for another existentialist mini-rant.
arent we forgetting that consciousness is different for each individual which makes trying to make into a fixed form of ideology rather a real odd thing
Compliments on your good work. From the script to the presenter to the video work, entertaining and informative. And I would love to see you do a take on consciousness and the afterlife.
💚💚💚🙏🙏🙏 From Syria " In all my research I have never come across matter . To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent Spirit ." " I regard Consciousness as fundamental . I regard matter as derivative from Consciousness . We cannot get behind Consciousness . Everything that we talk about , everything that we regard as existing , postulates Consciousness ." ~ Max Planck " The total number of minds in the universe is One . In fact , Consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings ." ~ Erwin Schrodinger " Consciousness sleeps in minerals , dreams in plants , wakes up in animals , and becomes self - aware in humans ." ~ Rumi
Upon viewing your excellent presentation I was moved to dig out my old copy of The Unwritten Book: Xellex by Carlos Dwa, so that I could share with you the exact wording of the epigraph that precedes the chapter entitled Denny's. On searching for this epigraph I came to realize that many of the epigraphs in The Unwritten Book addressed several of the issues you touched upon in this video presentation. The epigraph is as follows. The inherent deception in all conceptions of consciousness can be traced to the suffix "ness". This is sometimes referred to as the "ness" lock monster.
Materialism can explain physical properties, but cannot say what fundamental essence is. When we consider life, divine design, consciousness, soul and faith etc., we scratch the surface of metaphysics. Physics and metaphysics together explains reality.
Great video, although i dont see how faith plays into it. Faith being belief without evidence or even reason. If there is a flaw in materialism then looking for another way to explain conscienceness seems like the way to go and panpsychism seems to do that just fine.
excellent video, very good stuff!.... i'm curious why you didnt mention the work of daniel dennett, he's skeptical of pansychism and is well known for being a skeptic. i tend to agree with him, seeing consciousness as basically an illusion that will one day get a "oh thats how it works!" explanation.
I have a sense that the modern Western discussion is hampered by unnoticed loose thinking about the distinction between consciousness and awareness. What should be dubbed awareness (subjective knowing of qualia) is often called consciousness. But then others call what should be dubbed consciousness (knowing I am here and nothing else - nothing even about the past or about what the “I” that’s here is, just I Am) is then ALSO later called consciousness. If the atoms of reality are being considered, we should be talking about the former. Seasoned meditators report that even the “raw I am” or the “True Self” or “pure consciousness” unattached to a particular self-image... is still a constructed thing, constructed out of pure awareness, or pure chit, pure mind. In Buddhism, consciousness is seen as I am labeling things; it is a skandha like perception or conception or sensation etc, and chit is more fundamental. In advait vedanta, most (unfortunately) use the opposite terminology where pure awareness is called “consciousness” and first-person subjective being is called “awareness”. Except for Nisargadatta, he uses the Buddhist terms for the two, with “the light of awareness” as the more fundamental (but with advaita philosophy). The ego or personal self can be seen through to the pure (the I-I as some call it). But there is a second, very advanced step of noticing that even the impersonal raw I of pure consciousness is constructed and there is simply not a self nature in ANY phenomena, including consciousness.
Our body and any creature alive are developed from conception with a potential consciousness to deal, once born, with the eternal reality of existence. At 86 I can say that I know the solution of the mystery by personal experience. I remember perfectly clear the instant when, at 9 months, I woke up from the child's lethargic sleep or in consciousness, and through my naturally acquired consciousness be able to see the eternal world of reality. On this occasion I called for the first time the word "mama'. My mother told me many years later that I was then, nine months old. This is my reality. I think that it is also the reality of any living creature, conscient yet mostly inconscient of the eternal reality of life and the consciousness provided in gestation by nature. Michel Di Sclafani born October 28 1938.
The problem with a lot of debates on consciousness ive watched is that the definition of consciousness is not agreed on. Like you stated at the beginning, some are arguing from the basis that consciousness is the ability to think and sense etc and some that it is that sense of awareness and aliveness.
As someone with cognitive plurality (what I refer to things such as DID, OSDD, and DDNOS as), I also think it's quite clear that a single consciousness can break down into smaller consciousness, just as much as smaller consciousness can combine to make a larger more complex one. I contain multitudes of identities that are starkly different from myself in fundamental ways yet we share a body in spite of separation of identity and consciousness. I think plural disorders and neurodivergent conditions of a plural nature should be discussed more in matters of panpsychism and philosophical speculation about consciousness. People often misunderstand how plurality works for those of us living with it, and I think it would benefit the world at large to better understand people like us, because we are an example of consciousness that isn't singular, which is thought by some to be improbable or impossible, yet we exist right here. Edit for clarity: it should also be noted that more than one of my identities aka alters can exist consciously at one given time, often there are 2 to 3 of us conscious at once, even if only one given identity has control of the body we inhabit, multiple of these conscious entities can exist at once within my self and my mind to such a degree that we generally refer to ourselves as a "We" not an "I", though I will refer to my own self (the system host) as "I" when speaking of only myself.
This is one of the most interesting comments I've seen in recent memory, and synchronistically it feeds into research I am currently doing for a video about split brain patients. Please feel free to share anything further about your experience of having more than one center of consciousness.
There's a few key factors going into discussing plurality that are very important that I'll just take note of first thing for the sake of being comprehensive •System in this context refers to the vessel and all the identities/consciousnesses within it, we refer to ourselves specifically as the Amalgam System, as it's quite common among plurals to name the system itself. •Host refers to the most active identity who takes on most of daily life and duties usually, the host is often the "original" identity, but not always! •Cohosts are what we in the community call those active enough to participate in life regularly like a host or can take the role of a substitute host. •protectors are identities formed as a defense mechanism and are often triggered by perceived threat, or emotional distress •caretakers are identities formed to perform self care tasks or chores that are difficult for some of us •littles are what we call child alters who behave and require much the same emotional care as a child and often need help with many tasks •trauma holders/trauma bearers are alters that Specifically exist to contain the memory of a trauma that has happened to the body/system itself •polyfragmentation is the term for a system with more alters than can be measured, which we classify as with our uncounted but quite large queue of identities that can be switched out for whatever reason. •front refers to who is in control of the physical body, like the driver's seat, this can be more than one, but typically only one or two can truly front at a time and function well to my understanding •co-conscious (or co-con for short) refers to being aware and perceiving the material world all at once in a group of whatever number, like the passenger seats •headspace refers to the non material space we have within our minds that is a navigable part of the function of the system and alters, sometimes alters may be active in headspace but aren't cognisant of the material world or physical body, but they can be perceived by those fronting or conscious as if they're "in the next room over" •frontlocked refers to an alter who never "leaves the front" of the consciousness or is temporarily "stuck" There are many more roles and common terms but I couldn't hope to know them all off the top of my head Sometimes a switch is triggered by stress, other times my alters simply exist as themselves for no particular reason. I don't think of the body as "more mine than theirs" or that they're less real as people than I am, which is unfortunately a common belief, but I can't imagine not being plural in this way and I think they're truly worthy of being respected as their own. Depending on the form of plurality memory can very much be effected to many degrees, generally it's my understanding that DID (dissociative identity disorder) has the most common memory blockage, OSDD (otherwise specified dissociative disorder) has a bit less and in a different Format but still significant, and DDNOS (dissociative disorder not otherwise specified, my own form) can be either or a mixture. I myself have some mixed memory blockage, it's quite selective and most of what is blacked out is traumatic in some way. Personally I give my alters agency as their own individuals, we take votes on long term choices in our appearance, we have a wardrobe that can accommodate Many different tastes, and we compromise on much. It's all about having internal communication, which we've established more in my twenties than I had in my teens. We have truly very different tastes, and to some degree we also have many different mannerisms and ways of expressing, many of us speak differently (though muscle memory and shared physical structure is limited in how stark the difference is). I have many hypotheses as a lover of philosophy and metaphysical science, but I predominantly lean on the idea that these extra bits of consciousness are independent from me in identity and truly do exist in their own right as a part of my organism, as if we are merely cells working in tandem to maintain the vessel's well-being in cooperative fashion. When a conscious individual feels traumatized or utterly alone, our consciousness seems to multiply itself in dire times as if the consciousness fissures itself seeking company or help. The nature of polyfragmentation is that we split off more often than those in smaller systems, as a response to new stressors we form more identities to fill niches at a more exponential rate. Our own consciousness is shared and collective in some ways, but quite separate in others, notably. For example we generally for the most part all share common knowledge for daily life (with some exceptions), and we can "co pilot" with ease generally. However when a new trauma occurs this can become a new gap in time for us. Although it should be noted that plural experiences are not at all homogenous and one would need to speak with many of us to get a more rounded perspective, this is simply my specific experience and how the process tends to occur in our case. DDNOS is known to be among the harder to pin down because it tends to form very unique and subjective patterns of development and cognition. There's some level of evidence to suggest that neurologically the plural mind truly does have organized functions that have split access and not just in memory. Some of us work better than others, some of us draw better than others, some of us have different levels of proprioception and body language, and we have varying skills and hobbies that do not universally carry over to the collective. Some of us share skills, but not all of us are equally capable in different skills and practices. We're also capable of having very different opinions from one another, which further solidifies the boundaries between individual identities. Ultimately I like to explain being plural as being a community within a single body.
I hope this information may be helpful, and I am looking forward to seeing what you find that might relate to our condition and help us better understand ourselves on an existential level. You do amazing work 🙏✨
The Consciousness Koan: "Without awareness, what is there?" There are those who believe that mind is a product of matter. The implication of is that there was a “time” when there was only matter and mind arose after matter’s origin. Is this not saying that matter somehow organized itself in order to produce mind? Wouldn’t this “organizing” require an ordering agency/intention? If you define mind, de facto, as ordering agent and source of intention, then you must assign to matter attributes of mind for mind itself to exist. This is ultimately saying mind and matter are the same. If this is true, how does giving it two different names make any sense? There can be no object without a subject. Subject is mind.
The ‘split brain - split personality’ phenomenon is a nice illustration that consciousness resides within the brain. As understand it, this is not necessarily a permanent condition as the brain learns to compensate with new inhibitory pathways
Every particle is aware, conscious, of every other particle. No two particles exist in a universe alone, they must interact with each other. Even an apple is conscious of the gravity of the earth. Otherwise why would it fall? We are the Universe checking itself out.
The core of our being is the act of perceiving.. and the magic of our being is he act of awareness.. Perception and awareness for a single.. functional.. inextricable unit... By Don Carlos
Gotta love how he casually disregarded basically as indigenous people as, not being serious thinkers. There are plenty of serious thinkers that think that rocks are conscious, but not in the same way, or to the same degree as something like a human. There is a slime mold that is better at engineering than human engineers using computers, despite having no neurons.
This is an excellent video, clearly explaining the case for the centrality of consciousness, and beautifully put together- congratulations! Two comments: a) I would say that Whitehead's process philosophy has had a greater role in the growth of panpsychism than Russell's contribution; b) despite the truth of what is said in the video, it remains the case that reductive materialism is the standard dogma of scientific orthodoxy, taken for granted in popular presentations of science in the media - books, TV, etc. How is this to change?
I am " a consciousness" like an ocean, and my body is like a fish swimming in it. Water is all around me, the medium through which I pass. The water flows in the gills of the fish, all the gills of my fish go through... and the ocean is one. I experienced and felt what I went through from a different perspective. As evidence to erase all memories in our bodies, leave only the consciousness, then connect our consciousness, and feel who we are??
What is your opinion about consciousness? Is it fundamental? Let me know what you think.
🙏 It is Absolutely Fundamental.🌎
Yes, it is fundamental :)
We are ever-evolving, immortal, non-physical beings having a temporary human experience in this "virtual reality", and the purpose of our lives here is to increase the quality of our consciousness through learning and evolving by making good and bad choices.
For those of you who enjoyed this documentary and would like to learn more about how our reality truly works, you might want to consider watching former NASA physicist and consciousness / out-of-body expert Tom Campbell's MBT Science Trilogy series here on TH-cam. It is nothing short of life-changing and revolutionary.
Ontological idealism claims that the act of seeing is fundamental to reality. and there is no seeing without becoming of continuity ... You should have mentioned A. N, Whitehead.
@@aleksandarmilenkovic5861 Thank you for these thoughts. I agree that Whitehead is relevant to this discussion, yet he is a highly sophisticated thinker with many distinct terms and ideas. Covering his work would require an entire video.
Watch a movie called "A Living Singularity - The Solution to the Quantum Enigma"
I loved this video for a particular reason. I am an engineering graduate from the foremost school of technology in India (and now world renowned) named IIT (Indian Institute of Technology). Although my education was totally "scientific" and thus "materialistic", i grew up surrounded by the Vedic tradition of Vedanta philosophy which posited (5,000+ years ago) the concept of "Neutral Monism" called Advaita, which translated means "NON-DUALITY" with the name "Brahman" as the SOLE underlying Reality with the ONLY "attribute" of "Awareness". Listening to this podcast was Deja Vu!👏
Consciousness is not objective it cannot be measured, it is subjective, and we cannot measure love on a scale or document it for further study.
First, we have to understand we are conscious, but science dictates that we are flesh.
There is no subconsciousness and it was written down by people who have no idea of consciousness
I am aware that I am peaceful that is consciousness. Subconsciousness may be delusion.
as much as I love vedanta and love the Vedas, advaitism is nowhere near 5 hazar years old
I found a similar experience considering the Tao tradition of just being
Akasha, Brahman, Dao, and so many other concepts all point toward the same thing-there is only One Thing.
I am at the foremost school of (Vedic) spirituality in America, Maharishi International University. My education before was also materialistic, but now I get to study 'Vedic Science', the science and experience of consciousness. MIU basically teaches Vedanta. Ancient wisdom is finally becoming re enlivened.
I am a science graduate and earlier I thought only through the lenses of materialism until recently. As I dig deep into origin of universe, life and consciousness my belief into something beyond our eyes could see our brains could comprehend becomes stronger.
Ditto. As another science graduate I can completely echo what you have just said!
philosophy is the origin of all science. the fundamentals of all thinking
Sort of the same. No degree but huge science fan. Spent most of my life as a staunch materialist. The deeper I look at reality and into my own mind, I find this belief structure to be lacking.
@Random Dude I seen on a documentary NDE,s a few of the people were pissed to have to come back to the not so real world.
In the words of Ben Kenobi… “You’ve just taken your first step into a larger world”.
I've looked at several TH-cam entries on 'Consciousness" and so far this is the most clearly-explained and compelling one. I come away from watching/hearing this with a much more comforting and fascinated viewpoint than I had before.
Thank you Jay! I'm really glad you found it useful! :)
Partner, I have been thinking about consciousness since I was fifteen and over the course of the years I "got it"; I recognized the fundamental strangeness of consciousness and its inability to be explained by the reigning doctrines of materialist scientism. Countless times I have tried breathlessly to explain it to people and I am always amazed to find that so few see the magic. Thank you for your channel.
A very similar experience for me, I only heard the word panpsychism yesterday but I had a "great epiphany" in 2015 where it all 'clicked'.. in my enthusiasm and personal clarity I tried again and again to explain it... their eyes would glaze over. I've since been content to let it be and I find so much clarity in this perspective that I don't need to convince anyone of it... it will become self evident over time.
Good to find others who are willing to surrender their materialism for something much more powerful.
Don't forget that Einstein compared human prosses to understand who the universe works is like a baby in a giant Library simple put not possible
@@ΠαναγιωτηςΑγγελ very true, one of the inevitable truths that is revealed in panpsychism is the eternal nature of consciousness.
Eternal means there is always more, and the more we know... the more we know we DONT know. Science has uncovered far more questions than answers... wisdom is actually just greater awareness of ignorance. And there lies our potential. We are like infants in a library. Until we know we are ignorant we cannot learn. The materialists today think they are scholars in that library... and yet their religion is founded on random chance. 🤔
What panpsychism delivers is the awareness of this ignorance and invites inquiry, curiosity and the opening of new chapters. It embraces it in an unspeakable way.
"The words of truth are always paradoxical" Lao Tzu
@@nty3929 That’s a valid point, though far from scientific.
e.g. if ANY scientist had taken your stand on any theory that had not yet been defined and measured there would be no science.
Before Newton, nobody believed the force of Gravity solved any problems.
Before Einstein, nobody believed relativity solved any problems.
They both believed and pursued these ideas before they were able to define or measure them.
Science is about curiosity, investigation and discovering a way to define and measure reality.
The double slit experiment is the beginning of observing consciousness in light.
As more minds consider this possibility I predict a beautiful formula will emerge similar to e=mc2.
We didn’t have a way to measure the energy in matter before Einstein defined it so beautifully… he never would have sought to define it or measure it if he took your stand.
"it doesn't solve anything" , is irrelevant to Science.
The question that should be asked: "Is it True?"
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Extraordinary storytelling/narrating and presenting capacity, Adrian. Live long and prosper 💜
Thank you! You are always very kind.
Very lovely voice and narration, indeed! (:
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IANDS. Simulation theory. Biocentrism. Panpsychism. Holographic principle.
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I said it about your video about the simulation theory, and i say it about this too, Phenomenal editing, so well put together, the images the music, timing of the clips, the information and the narative of voice. This is in my opinion a video that is one of THE best on youtube right now, cutting edge subject for mankind to study and pursue, the coming years will show how important. Thank you for dedicating this kind of attention to every part of your video, and i hope you stay close to the edge 😊 of the frontiers of human potential, and understanding of what it is that we call reality.
Wow, thank you so much Daniel. Glad you appreciate what I'm doing :)
I was indoctrinated into the scientific materialistic mentality for most of my life. Checkout my channel if you want to see my journey in expanding my consciousness.
Honest men come in great suits?
I used to be a hardcore materialist but these days I'm just confused
All we can do is explore the possibilities!
I use to be a hardcore idealist (particularly when drunk or stoned) now I’m just confused…
I think that most consciousness explorers (people that try out of body experiences) tend to agree that consciousness is fundamental, and all realities are virtual. Welcome to the Matrix.
@@ClaudioSopranothe problem is that we don't have any hard evidence for this
Confusion is appropriate. Learn to live gracefully with what you do not know. Godspeed!
Beautifully crafted in all aspects ...as always.
Can't wait to see other great stuff!!
Thanks a lot! Cool Akira profile picture btw.
@@metaRising Thanks 😁
Your content rocks!!!
I just shared this video with my philosophy professor and he enjoyed it so much that he's going to incorporate it into his class!
Nelson, thank you again for your hard work that brings us more insights in where we are at as developing human beings. Your synthesis of the evolution of science and philosophy encourages us to extract our own views on the world at large. Once more we are reminded of the limitations and deceptions of our physical senses. I have not witnessed anyone to bring such a clear and complete report of human endeavors in a half an hour elaboration.
Wow, thank you Joris! I'm glad you liked it.
Wow. Blown away. This might just be the way it is! Conciousness may be fundamental to the whole of the Universe - and the conciousness I experience is then just a perspective and an aggregate of the conciousness of the cells of my body, which all have their own conciousness(es). In a way also on the molecular level. This was a liberating idea. Thank you. 🌟🌱
In "The consciousness I experience ..." who is I then ?
I was so glad to see that this was out. Maybe the best overview production I've seen on the subject. I'm surprised you didn't bring up Donald Hoffman's conscious agents Theory. I did see a quick shot of him. Along more psychological lines, is Ian McGilchrist's work on the relationships between the hemispheres of the brain. It gives a wonderful account of how we've arrived at the world we currently live in. His 2009 book "The Master and His Emissary" and soon to be released book "The Matter With Things" should be read by anyone seriously interested in consciousness. I think he'll be instrumental in our advancing beyond a world of toddlers who think we're hot shit because we have rockets and computers.
After a full blown, spontaneous, nearly instantaneous kundalini awakening in the seventies and 45 years of subsequent meditation sprinkled with intense psychedelic experiences, I assert that consciousness is, preceding time, and that everything else is an expression of it. Pure, infinite, cosmic, God consciousness is, and it's nature is to express itself. It is the only thing that is really real - everything else comes and goes, but it just is. Consciousness is; awareness implies one that is aware and something to be aware of - the observer and the observed; perception adds the process, giving the observer, the thing that is observed, and the observation - something happens. I use a hierarchical structure with unity at the peak and multiplicity at the base as the primary structure for my framework for understanding my experience of the world. Of course it's just a way of connecting the dots and is not actually what is. Anything describing reality, isn't reality. The best we can do is create models or frameworks that are more or less accurate, detailed, and comprehensive.
Thank you for sharing this. Unfortunately there are many important thinkers who could not be fit into this brief account. I have interviewed Donald before, so if you're interested in that interaction you can listen to it on my channel. Thank you for the suggestion of Ian McGilchrist's ideas, I will look into his work in the future.
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I think I originally came across your channel when I found (and watched) your interview with Donald.
Exactly, thought the same thing about why he didn’t include Donald Hoffman theory(jus his image lol). 👍🏼
"Conciousness is fundamental". The idea was right in front of me the whole time. It's such a freeing realization
As above, so below.
@@Seymour-Butts_666 lol I'm fond of that saying
It’s as comforting as religion and nearly as false.. jump of your cliff and try to think you won’t hid the bottom😂
But what about the Cartesian scepticism? Do you entertain the whole solipsism idea?
@@nty3929Or you could say that the universe is a projection of consciousness, and that nothing created consciousness which simply is. That is a sense in which consciousness is fundamental.
I really really appreciated your explanation of IIT, it's been so difficult for me to wrap my head around alone and you made it make sense!
You're welcome! Glad it was useful :)
I am convinced that the fundamental "ground" of reality is "consciousness"; but this is just the beginning of the adventure... We will not throw away any of our knowledge... however we will have to recast part of it... and we will have to discover much more than what we were able up until now.
Of course it is & I don't need to watch a video to know consciousness is everything, it is reality, plain & simple, its what reality really is 🧠 Our brains are not the source of consciousness either, they transmit & receive, we're in a layered conscious multiverse, consciousness determines reality without a doubt
I was indoctrinated into the scientific materialistic mentality for most of my life. It's all a lie used to mask the true reality of the universe. Checkout my channel if you want to see my journey in expanding my consciousness.
A thoroughly marvelous addition to the examination of the "hard problem". Thank you!
If we are to reject dualism and embrace monism, then there is only one intrinsic nature of reality. If that one intrinsic nature is consciousness, then consciousness is not only fundamental to reality, it is exhaustive of reality. This would entail idealism, but one can still be an idealist _and_ a panpsychist, like Timothy Sprigge.
I agree. The panpsychism explored here is, in my opinion, a form of idealism. Consciousness is the intrinsic nature of reality.
@@metaRising Brilliant! I commend you for your conjunction of idealism and panpsychism, I think that is a formidable combination. In the future it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on other forms of idealism, like the pluralism of John McTaggart or the absolute idealism of F.H. Bradley.
I am 85 now but I remember clearly the instant when I became conscient. It is like waking and be conscient of reality. I was then 9 months old, my mother told me years later.
Hmm. What were we before then?
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland Through our quantic atoms we were before birth and are after, eternal. God is in my opinion part of our atoms, part of us.
I believe that once you detach from the mind and body you are then only awareness. At that point you are able to design your awareness and this awareness will now materialize into your external reality….
Might this happened to every living being since the beginning of time but whatever not even with million years scientific progress or breakthrough we will pinpoint the truth of how that aspect of the universe works if it is one direction
In order to understand🧘Consciousness one must be fully🌅conscious🧠. Most people are not fully conscious, like those steeped in abstraction, but not awareness, that is far greater than mere consciousness. The☯️Way is being alert to Mind!
Good to be first comment on such a Fantastic channel
Thank you very much! :)
Mr. Crick's eyebrows are the strongest you have ever seen..you can't deny it
There’s so much garbage in the world...but this is the good stuff that gets me out of bed.
Thanks a lot! Glad you liked it.
@@metaRising No problem!
This is the best video I have ever seen. And your way of explaining the history and the frontiers is a pure joy to listen to. I'm just curious, Gregory Bateson, where does he fit in all of this?
Nice overview. But I can't believe you didn't cover the measurement problem in QM. One of the biggest indicators of the fundamental nature of awareness.
Consciousness is the observer that collapses probability waves, therefore consciousness creates reality and I'm speaking of the greater consciousness
Life, consciousness and self-awareness have been integrated from the beginning of proto-life; from the development of the initial self-replicating nucleus protected by a cell wall that allowed diffusion inward chemicals for energy production and outward of toxic materials.
In a mass of available chemicals the proto-cell had the need to decide which energy producing material to allow in and which to deny access; in effect "I choose this one. I do not want that one"
This would be the beginning of self-awareness and consciousness that developed in all life forms of the planet earth over the next 3.5 billion years acting in different ways in different life forms
Consciousness truly is fundamental and not only that. We may through consciousness change our reality.
This video has a lot of eyes and perspective shots from behind the head. Also spaces filled with subtle light forms. Irrespective of whatever is being said, they create a sort of argument, themselves, regarding the nature of experience-a sheer sensitivity to impression, like a living mirror.
Thanks. I'm not sure what you mean by "sensitivity to impression" though.
Great piece of video, the best I have seen in capturing the history and present state for the study of consciousness. With Cognitive Psychology still being dominated by materialism and reductionalism, it's a huge relief to see that the truth-seeking spirit has become alive again in Science in the recent years! As mentioned in the video, modern science apparently had been kidnapped by scientists who only see science in a pure materialist worldview; they largely treat science as a tool to conquer nature or even worse as a means to achieve their personal fame and security (unfortunately, most people in academic research fall into this category).
Would love to see a follow up documentary on a fractal theory of consciousness, this was great!
Thank you so much for a knowledgeable and strongly reasoned case for idealism. SO GLAD that transcripts are available!! It is more time efficient for me to copy and format the transcript and review it than to learn audibly.
the background music in this is outstanding
Thanks for this video. It cleared a lot of concepts for me from Advaita Vedanta.
This is, by far, the best video on this topic I have found so far. Thank you 👍
Thank you! Glad you found it useful!
One of the best summaries I’ve discovered yet, and makes an excellent introduction to the subject. Thank you!
Intriguing, I always think about this when I hear about people who have had NDE experience, brain dead but still conscious,
Excellent video 👌
Love the care you put into your videos ❤ Topic is 👌
Thank you!
Consciousness as "the act of manifestation" is the True thing. It's the fundamental force that gives rise to experience and existence of all kind of forms and realities.
Consciousness as "the imprinted memories", "perceptions" or "thinking" is by this unlimited and infinite act of manifestation between multiple layers and networks of co-working with itself.
Consciousness as "the feeling" is by the combination of the previous two.
"Matter" is just an illusion made by a complex, recursive and abstract system of thought.
Wondering how Bernardo Kastrup was not acknowledged here, but that aside it is a valuable and artful primer via which to consider the primacy of consciousness. Thanks for creating and sharing it.
Bernardo was probably not included because this documentary is defending panpsychism, and Bernardo is an idealist who argues against panpsychism.
Barnardo is an interesting thinker, and I hope to have him on the podcast at some point. We appear to disagree in our valuation of panpsychism but there is a lot of common ground between us. Sadly, many important thinkers could not be mentioned here simply because of the constraints of time.
@@MonisticIdealism Well, idealism, insofar as it relates to cosmopsychism, is mentioned toward the end as a premise consistent with what Russell/Eddington were proposing. So whether one agrees with that or not, in considering idealism at all, BK's body of work seems surely worthy of mention. Maybe next time.
@@wanderingthepeaks I agree, Bernardo does seem noteworthy at least in relation to the cosmopsychism discussion, even though he argues against it. Another person I think is worth noting is Timothy Sprigge: he was an idealist _and_ a panpsychist. So it is possible to be both.
Without consciousness, matter wouldn't have a need to exist. Nothing would happen without a consciousness to observe
Fantastic! Very Well Done. 🙏🙏💙💙🌎💙💙🙏🙏
Thank you kindly!
The Cosmos, Universe, whatever you want, is running a fantastically huge SETI@HOME system. All "thinking" units are united yet independent enough to allow for individualism. "Group Think" when needed. All units connected also to the main hub. Anything created requires affirmative intentions.
Very thought-provoking stuff. Interesting to see the progression of belief and knowledge down the centuries. One day this will all be perhaps the normal view as it becomes more widely proven and accepted. Great work in producing such a quality presentation. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and knowledge.
Let's hope not. It is clap trap masquerading as science.
no-one has ever experienced the universe without consciousness. i don't know if either the universe or consciousness are fundamental, but at least consciousness is more certain than the unvierse. i believe that consciousness is more fundamental than the universe.
Brilliant. All the great sages were researchers in consciousness. Three in one nature of consciousness. Vedanta: Rishi, Devata, Chhandas. Mind, matter, information. Father, son Holy Spirit. Mind, matter, information . Water, vapour, ice : one substance, three states.
Excellent podcast! Thank you for your comprehensive presentation and clear, concise and comprehendible elucidation of subjects I have recently been struggling to understand. I can now see ''panpsychism'' as a plausible and convincing theory of reality.
Thank you Patrick! I’m glad you found it helpful :)
This was absolutely beautiful. Well done.
Very beautiful video
Advait vedant
Thank you!
Bloodborne OST music at 31:00. That was so awesome to hear. Excellent documentary matte.
Beautiful, inspirational, fascinating - thank you
Thank you Chris!
"With the exception of the artificial and abstract thinker in you, you are pure Nature". This is a phrase from a book titled Toward your Real Self.
every thoughts every imagination every hallucionation including every dream every nightmare every day every night every time every cycle of your life
Consciousness must reside in a physical reality as otherwise how could it function and without which there would be no reality to observe.
In India all the Vedas and Upanishads talks about the level of consciousness, as how it is working as a fundamental source of existence and how it is evolving, consciousness is defined as Aatma (Self) that is the part of Bramh (Universal consciousness) and body and mind is just a manifestation of it.
Amazing video 👏🏻 I wish I could tag Bernardo Kastrup in this video. What is your opinion on ORCH OR theory? Great upload keep them coming
Just watched the video for the second time with more attention…. Such a great insightful video you have made here. Learnt quite allot and I feel I’m now more open to panpsychism than I have been previously.
Thanks a lot Brad! Glad to hear you got some value from it.
I will be returning as well
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A big thank you to the TH-cam Algorithm Gods for landing this video in my feed!
Excellent content. Cant wait to see what else you have on your channel. 👍
ALL IS CONSCIOUSNESS!
The Universe/Multiverse is conscious, whether one believes so or not.
Consciousness and existence are one and the same.
"As Above, So Below ... As within, So without ... As the Universe, So the Soul" (Hermes Trismegistus).
We look for answers like a lost child looks for it’s mother.
simply a brilliant exposition
Thanks a lot Baja!
We’ll done video, with good narrative direct to the point, nice templates and good instrumental música in the right volume in the background. But I think you could have mentioned Donald Hoffman theory “Consciousness Realism and the mind- body problem” (by the way he did appear in one of the scenes.).
We place a great deal of emphasis on the role and nature of consciousness, even to the point of asking whether it is a fundamental aspect of reality. Yet, in the Buddhist sutra called the Heart Sutra we are told that everything we experience, all our sensory data, all our feelings, all our thoughts and even our consciousness is fundamentally still a part of of an illusion - it is not what it appears to be. The real 'fundamental' lies beyond everything we can think about, or comprehend with the rational mind.
Hence consciousness, far from being fundamental is simply still 'empty'.
Great work! Thank you! Most of the videos about consciousness are naive or full of pseudoreligious narratives. Here we have a summary of historical achievements on this field and some interesting new directions.
Why do we exist? Well if the alternative is complete nothingness, no experience, no matter, nothing. Does it make sense now? What is matter when there is nothing to experience it? on/off, consciousness/matter, life/death, black/white. This video really clicked some suspicions I had about the nature of consciousness.
IIT makes a lot of sense to me. Information in our brains links us somehow to Mind because of the electrical charge therein, hence a magnetic field is created and a type of Consciousness is formed. Fascinating! Magnetism is a form of Consciousness, but magnetism is a type of force or power, and an idea of Consciousness or Mind. Just a theory.
This is a really good presentation. I would however argue that the word "physical" is being conflated with the word "material". If this were cleared-up, it would help make sense of some of the problems. For example, it would eliminate the argument that consciousness cannot be physical. The suggestion we want here isn't that the physical brain isn't responsible for consciousness, but that the materials of the brain are so radically different from that of consciousness, that the two don't appear to be causally connected. We see this type of relationship with electromagnets. If we were to simply look at some copper and iron, and believe in an invisible thing called electricity, we still couldn't know in advance that together they can produce another invisible force called electromagnetism - and we don't judge this situation to be non-physical. The same rationale can be applied to the brain-body system - the system we call "us".
What's more, the ripples generated from dropping the metaphorical pebble in this particular part of the ontological pond, spread out and intersect with others in advantageous ways. For example it solves questions about personal identity that in-turn affect the criteria needed for there to be such a thing as afterlives - but that's for another existentialist mini-rant.
The evolution of human consciousness is the final frontier. It will take man further into the mind than any space Xploration will. Mister X
arent we forgetting that consciousness is different for each individual which makes trying to make into a fixed form of ideology rather a real odd thing
MCGA - Make Consciousness Great Again.
thank you so much for the valuable information you present here.
Compliments on your good work. From the script to the presenter to the video work, entertaining and informative. And I would love to see you do a take on consciousness and the afterlife.
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" In all my research I have never come across matter . To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent Spirit ."
" I regard Consciousness as fundamental . I regard matter as derivative from Consciousness . We cannot get behind Consciousness . Everything that we talk about , everything that we regard as existing , postulates Consciousness ." ~ Max Planck
" The total number of minds in the universe is One . In fact , Consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings ."
~ Erwin Schrodinger
" Consciousness sleeps in minerals , dreams in plants , wakes up in animals , and becomes self - aware in humans ."
~ Rumi
Thanks. I always enjoy your videos.😊
Glad you like them!
@@metaRising I think you are very good at explaining complex ideas; and I always find your content to be the most thought provoking.
Have you considered diving into Sir Roger Penrose Orch OR theory of Consciousness?
"All matter is capacitated to receive intelligence" - Brigham Young
Upon viewing your excellent presentation I was moved to dig out my old copy of
The Unwritten Book: Xellex by Carlos Dwa, so that I could share with you the exact wording of the epigraph that precedes the chapter entitled Denny's.
On searching for this epigraph I came to realize that many of the epigraphs in The Unwritten Book addressed several of the issues you touched upon in this video presentation. The epigraph is as follows.
The inherent deception in all conceptions
of consciousness
can be traced to the suffix "ness".
This is sometimes referred to as the
"ness" lock monster.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SO well articulated, excellent presentation. Bravo! 👏🏻
Thank you!
Materialism can explain physical properties, but cannot say what fundamental essence is. When we consider life, divine design, consciousness, soul and faith etc., we scratch the surface of metaphysics. Physics and metaphysics together explains reality.
Consciousness is living a mind wake.
Great video, although i dont see how faith plays into it. Faith being belief without evidence or even reason. If there is a flaw in materialism then looking for another way to explain conscienceness seems like the way to go and panpsychism seems to do that just fine.
excellent video, very good stuff!.... i'm curious why you didnt mention the work of daniel dennett, he's skeptical of pansychism and is well known for being a skeptic. i tend to agree with him, seeing consciousness as basically an illusion that will one day get a "oh thats how it works!" explanation.
Brilliant.
Thank you very much Dean!
I have a sense that the modern Western discussion is hampered by unnoticed loose thinking about the distinction between consciousness and awareness. What should be dubbed awareness (subjective knowing of qualia) is often called consciousness. But then others call what should be dubbed consciousness (knowing I am here and nothing else - nothing even about the past or about what the “I” that’s here is, just I Am) is then ALSO later called consciousness. If the atoms of reality are being considered, we should be talking about the former. Seasoned meditators report that even the “raw I am” or the “True Self” or “pure consciousness” unattached to a particular self-image... is still a constructed thing, constructed out of pure awareness, or pure chit, pure mind. In Buddhism, consciousness is seen as I am labeling things; it is a skandha like perception or conception or sensation etc, and chit is more fundamental. In advait vedanta, most (unfortunately) use the opposite terminology where pure awareness is called “consciousness” and first-person subjective being is called “awareness”. Except for Nisargadatta, he uses the Buddhist terms for the two, with “the light of awareness” as the more fundamental (but with advaita philosophy). The ego or personal self can be seen through to the pure (the I-I as some call it). But there is a second, very advanced step of noticing that even the impersonal raw I of pure consciousness is constructed and there is simply not a self nature in ANY phenomena, including consciousness.
Our body and any creature alive are developed from conception with a potential consciousness to deal, once born, with the eternal reality of existence. At 86 I can say that I know the solution of the mystery by personal experience. I remember perfectly clear the instant when, at 9 months, I woke up from the child's lethargic sleep or in consciousness, and through my naturally acquired consciousness be able to see the eternal world of reality. On this occasion I called for the first time the word "mama'. My mother told me many years later that I was then, nine months old. This is my reality. I think that it is also the reality of any living creature, conscient yet mostly inconscient of the eternal reality of life and the consciousness provided in gestation by nature. Michel Di Sclafani born October 28 1938.
exceptional content!
Thank you brother!
The problem with a lot of debates on consciousness ive watched is that the definition of consciousness is not agreed on. Like you stated at the beginning, some are arguing from the basis that consciousness is the ability to think and sense etc and some that it is that sense of awareness and aliveness.
Fascinating. Your videos are excellent.
Thank you very much!
“The number of minds in the universe is one.” Schrodinger
Excellent ❤❤❤
Most eastern philosophers of Indian and East Asian continent had described "Chetna" or consciousness in an elaborate manner.
As someone with cognitive plurality (what I refer to things such as DID, OSDD, and DDNOS as), I also think it's quite clear that a single consciousness can break down into smaller consciousness, just as much as smaller consciousness can combine to make a larger more complex one. I contain multitudes of identities that are starkly different from myself in fundamental ways yet we share a body in spite of separation of identity and consciousness. I think plural disorders and neurodivergent conditions of a plural nature should be discussed more in matters of panpsychism and philosophical speculation about consciousness.
People often misunderstand how plurality works for those of us living with it, and I think it would benefit the world at large to better understand people like us, because we are an example of consciousness that isn't singular, which is thought by some to be improbable or impossible, yet we exist right here.
Edit for clarity: it should also be noted that more than one of my identities aka alters can exist consciously at one given time, often there are 2 to 3 of us conscious at once, even if only one given identity has control of the body we inhabit, multiple of these conscious entities can exist at once within my self and my mind to such a degree that we generally refer to ourselves as a "We" not an "I", though I will refer to my own self (the system host) as "I" when speaking of only myself.
This is one of the most interesting comments I've seen in recent memory, and synchronistically it feeds into research I am currently doing for a video about split brain patients. Please feel free to share anything further about your experience of having more than one center of consciousness.
There's a few key factors going into discussing plurality that are very important that I'll just take note of first thing for the sake of being comprehensive
•System in this context refers to the vessel and all the identities/consciousnesses within it, we refer to ourselves specifically as the Amalgam System, as it's quite common among plurals to name the system itself.
•Host refers to the most active identity who takes on most of daily life and duties usually, the host is often the "original" identity, but not always!
•Cohosts are what we in the community call those active enough to participate in life regularly like a host or can take the role of a substitute host.
•protectors are identities formed as a defense mechanism and are often triggered by perceived threat, or emotional distress
•caretakers are identities formed to perform self care tasks or chores that are difficult for some of us
•littles are what we call child alters who behave and require much the same emotional care as a child and often need help with many tasks
•trauma holders/trauma bearers are alters that Specifically exist to contain the memory of a trauma that has happened to the body/system itself
•polyfragmentation is the term for a system with more alters than can be measured, which we classify as with our uncounted but quite large queue of identities that can be switched out for whatever reason.
•front refers to who is in control of the physical body, like the driver's seat, this can be more than one, but typically only one or two can truly front at a time and function well to my understanding
•co-conscious (or co-con for short) refers to being aware and perceiving the material world all at once in a group of whatever number, like the passenger seats
•headspace refers to the non material space we have within our minds that is a navigable part of the function of the system and alters, sometimes alters may be active in headspace but aren't cognisant of the material world or physical body, but they can be perceived by those fronting or conscious as if they're "in the next room over"
•frontlocked refers to an alter who never "leaves the front" of the consciousness or is temporarily "stuck"
There are many more roles and common terms but I couldn't hope to know them all off the top of my head
Sometimes a switch is triggered by stress, other times my alters simply exist as themselves for no particular reason. I don't think of the body as "more mine than theirs" or that they're less real as people than I am, which is unfortunately a common belief, but I can't imagine not being plural in this way and I think they're truly worthy of being respected as their own.
Depending on the form of plurality memory can very much be effected to many degrees, generally it's my understanding that DID (dissociative identity disorder) has the most common memory blockage, OSDD (otherwise specified dissociative disorder) has a bit less and in a different Format but still significant, and DDNOS (dissociative disorder not otherwise specified, my own form) can be either or a mixture. I myself have some mixed memory blockage, it's quite selective and most of what is blacked out is traumatic in some way.
Personally I give my alters agency as their own individuals, we take votes on long term choices in our appearance, we have a wardrobe that can accommodate Many different tastes, and we compromise on much. It's all about having internal communication, which we've established more in my twenties than I had in my teens. We have truly very different tastes, and to some degree we also have many different mannerisms and ways of expressing, many of us speak differently (though muscle memory and shared physical structure is limited in how stark the difference is).
I have many hypotheses as a lover of philosophy and metaphysical science, but I predominantly lean on the idea that these extra bits of consciousness are independent from me in identity and truly do exist in their own right as a part of my organism, as if we are merely cells working in tandem to maintain the vessel's well-being in cooperative fashion. When a conscious individual feels traumatized or utterly alone, our consciousness seems to multiply itself in dire times as if the consciousness fissures itself seeking company or help.
The nature of polyfragmentation is that we split off more often than those in smaller systems, as a response to new stressors we form more identities to fill niches at a more exponential rate. Our own consciousness is shared and collective in some ways, but quite separate in others, notably. For example we generally for the most part all share common knowledge for daily life (with some exceptions), and we can "co pilot" with ease generally. However when a new trauma occurs this can become a new gap in time for us.
Although it should be noted that plural experiences are not at all homogenous and one would need to speak with many of us to get a more rounded perspective, this is simply my specific experience and how the process tends to occur in our case. DDNOS is known to be among the harder to pin down because it tends to form very unique and subjective patterns of development and cognition.
There's some level of evidence to suggest that neurologically the plural mind truly does have organized functions that have split access and not just in memory. Some of us work better than others, some of us draw better than others, some of us have different levels of proprioception and body language, and we have varying skills and hobbies that do not universally carry over to the collective. Some of us share skills, but not all of us are equally capable in different skills and practices. We're also capable of having very different opinions from one another, which further solidifies the boundaries between individual identities.
Ultimately I like to explain being plural as being a community within a single body.
I hope this information may be helpful, and I am looking forward to seeing what you find that might relate to our condition and help us better understand ourselves on an existential level. You do amazing work 🙏✨
The Consciousness Koan: "Without awareness, what is there?"
There are those who believe that mind is a product of matter. The implication of is that there was a “time” when there was only matter and mind arose after matter’s origin. Is this not saying that matter somehow organized itself in order to produce mind? Wouldn’t this “organizing” require an ordering agency/intention? If you define mind, de facto, as ordering agent and source of intention, then you must assign to matter attributes of mind for mind itself to exist. This is ultimately saying mind and matter are the same. If this is true, how does giving it two different names make any sense?
There can be no object without a subject. Subject is mind.
The ‘split brain - split personality’ phenomenon is a nice illustration that consciousness resides within the brain. As understand it, this is not necessarily a permanent condition as the brain learns to compensate with new inhibitory pathways
Every particle is aware, conscious, of every other particle. No two particles exist in a universe alone, they must interact with each other. Even an apple is conscious of the gravity of the earth. Otherwise why would it fall? We are the Universe checking itself out.
The core of our being is the act of perceiving.. and the magic of our being is he act of awareness..
Perception and awareness for a single.. functional.. inextricable unit...
By Don Carlos
Gotta love how he casually disregarded basically as indigenous people as, not being serious thinkers. There are plenty of serious thinkers that think that rocks are conscious, but not in the same way, or to the same degree as something like a human. There is a slime mold that is better at engineering than human engineers using computers, despite having no neurons.
This is an excellent video, clearly explaining the case for the centrality of consciousness, and beautifully put together- congratulations! Two comments: a) I would say that Whitehead's process philosophy has had a greater role in the growth of panpsychism than Russell's contribution; b) despite the truth of what is said in the video, it remains the case that reductive materialism is the standard dogma of scientific orthodoxy, taken for granted in popular presentations of science in the media - books, TV, etc. How is this to change?
I am " a consciousness" like an ocean, and my body is like a fish swimming in it. Water is all around me, the medium through which I pass. The water flows in the gills of the fish, all the gills of my fish go through... and the ocean is one. I experienced and felt what I went through from a different perspective. As evidence to erase all memories in our bodies, leave only the consciousness, then connect our consciousness, and feel who we are??