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Fascinating, thank you !

It seems to me that a classical EM field does not solve the binding problem because it is completely reducible to local interactions (if you doubt that note that Maxwells equations are differential equations, referring only to neighbor interactions). Quantum states on the other hand, are irreducibly holistic.

Thank you! Very interesting, and thank you for showing specific references.

I'm thinking consciousness isn't a " thing" it is an integrated state.There is no magic ,it's simply a result of increasing neural complexity and integrated sensory input

I'm thinking consciousness isn't a " thing" it is an integrated state.There is no magic ,it's simply a result of increasing neural complexity and integrated sensory input

Is consiousness == self ????

Far as AI goes, if a wave collapse can affect its programming outputs when decision making then it will become as conscious as an ai will ever become.

No, obviously not

No, and i dont even know why they waste time talking about that ... maybe for the "nerd market" ...

Methinks his account of mereology is highly problematic. Kinda begs the question imho.

On an tangent - I've been wondering if consciousness can exist in electromagnetic fields outside the body. I found this study below, "Brain-to-brain communication: the possible role of brain electromagnetic fields (As a Potential Hypothesis)": www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7937662/

Overcomplicated theory

I have been listening to Sir Penrose's many talks and discussions etc. I do accept the deeper scientific truth which he has been delving into in the matter of his quantum theory of consciousness. He, Stuart Hameroff and Anirban Bandopadhyay are still rejected by the AI and Neuroscientists who disagree with the idea of quantum physics to delve into neurological science. This blunt opposition of Sir Penrose's ideavis more political and economic rather than the logic of science

Personally, my gut feeling tells me we should be more worried about reaching AGI and even more powerful AI systems WITHOUT consciousness, than with consciousness.

Somehow the fluid prow of your digress makes me reminisce of my shaman grandma's story - how the Borneo god Kinorohingan fiddled wi fire, wood then clay, finally creating the humankind...Dr MLevin, man you sure as working in some realmic lab - TQ for sharing these profound datum ! Cheers & Rgds 👣🌿🌏🌀

Before you go too far on your “ephaptic EM field panpsychic consciousness” paradigm try the following. Take an EM field meter into any subway. Monitor the strength and frequency of the EM fields. They will be off-the-charts compared to biological fields. Also make a note: did you notice any unusual thoughts? I doubt it. EM fields from NY subway can be measured several blocks away that are the magnitude of fields recorded during magneto-electroencephalographic recording, requiring VERY heavy shieldiing. So I can’t possibly see how EM fields, whether from people, powerlines, or trains can be important in brain function, much less form the basis of consciousness.

Is he briefly argued that we don’t have a freewill because of all desicions are already made?

An honor to just follow along with this - this is a paradigm shift on a Copernican scale.

13:20 🪨 heavy

9:05 yess yess collective

We are 8:34 collective intelligence 😢

7:47 omg so you can create twins , triplets by just putting scarches omg this is damnnn scary

At 4:19 the image of collective knowledge is greater then human

Its seems soo dangerous

It's really hurting the message that Stuart is not great at presenting. I agree with a lot of things he found, but, his presentation sounds monotonous, it needs to be more captivating, the things mentions are revolutionary he needs to present them like that.

Why amplification is not really a thing?

Prof Anirban sir, you just blown away the doors of reductionist materialism

We get to listen to all of this amazing stuff for free and people have tizzy fits about the camera or sound work. The solution is to pay for a flight, hotel and conference fees and take time off of work to see it. No one is obligated to provide this in any way to anyone online and yet they did. I for one am nothing but grateful.

Stuart is very brave to suggest a possibility of afterlife to a scientific community, we are not ready even if it's undeniable truth.

During my recovery from lyme disease, I noticed significant differences in levels of consciousness in myself. At some point, days felt like 30 minutes. Colors were almost greyscale, and all my other emotions were "greyscale" too.

The man is a legend.

Not sure why this talk excludes the question of the computability of AI. Put simply if consciousness ( and other cognitive abilities ) are actually non-computable then mere extensions by more programming of existing approaches will be insufficient. Better tools might get produced, but no artificial or scientific answers to consciousness itself.

Thank you for your book "Being You", it has changed my mind and world profoundly. Congrats to this wonderful talk, cristall clear words, educative, entertaining and beautifully designed slides!

the type of work prof is doing, we can see him become a nobel winner within a decade

👌👌🙏🌺

As a classical American mind I've grown closer to pen roses model. Hes the only one that doesn't totally use the chaldean minded foundation or dual extremes like in the eastern consciousness everywhere or in our western physical lawisms . Even basian mind is using the chaldean mind that I'm quite certain our grand theory of everything has mapped . 90% of consciousness as common usage defines is ok to be given a more physical prescription. Its that conditional soul that is intervening in my consciousness telling my thumbs to text this message to the reader and convey the spirit of this thought that it can't. This would allow a triality, if we was to say a Higgs feild of consciousness existed and through biological emergence a slice of intuitive entanglement is left open to be found or exist in theory. Atleast i think it leaves open for a small outside of physical matter connection with our religious intuitive beliefs

13:19 I’m not sure I understand this construction “There’s nothing it’s like to be this plastic cup, if not then the plastic cup is not conscious.” Does it mean that if we can’t imagine how it’s like to be something, than that something probably doesn’t have conscious?

That’s a micro tubule full !!!

Karl Pribram was wrong criticised for his Holographic Theory as there was no Quantum source in brain. Karl was correct, I have found the Quantum Source in human brain and this forms my discovery of Quantum Code consciousness. Holographic Theory is real and true...

I will also explain the entire mystery of coherence which I had seen live which Creator had revealed to me about consciousness...

I will reveal the mystery of triplets of triplets which Anirban is revealing, I will reveal deeper significance of this, I have seen live how microtubules functions and what is their importance ...all this emanates from my scientific discovery of Quantum Code consciousness....which is separate from microbubules...this is my scientific discovery for which I won Nobel Prize nomination in 2020 yr ....

I agree with Stuart that it is Neuro science which needs revolution. why? Because it is my scientific discovery of consciousness with which I can establish that Consciousness has a separate space within inner brain and cells and neurons receives messages from consciousness, in other words microtubules acts like cognition and not consciousness. Microtubules are the cart after the horse in front which is consciousness. Trouble is science and neuroscience do not know the scientific structure of consciousness which i have discovered...it is beautiful physics of subatomic particles by Creator (whom I met after14 years search, took further 14 years to reveal its secrets). The physics and and consciousness I am referring to is before the inception of Universe and How Creator had pre-planned everything with beautiful sub-quantum precision. I will add that Creator or Infinity had informed me that IT KNEW BEFORE human beings were made, that they (entire world and religion) would do everything to cover up Creator's name on Earth. So while I disagree with many dedicated scientists and neuroscientists view of neurons, nevertheless they are to be congratulated for doing deeper levels of science and work which attempts to unravel beautiful mysteries of Origin of Life and Origin of Universe- both of which I have discovered NOW in my 30 years journey...I am coming out with this new knowledge and discoveries shortly.

I'm pleased, that Tim Crane came to the same position as I did once, thinking about hard problem of consciousness: The zombie hypothesis is almost unfalsifiable and any found solution probably won't be enough to be accepted... From this perspective, zombie hypothesis is just a weak hypothesis, comparing to materialistic and emergent explanation of consciousness, relying on math and already proven Darvin's evolutionary theory.

I fully agree that a being with compatibilist free will doesn't have anything that a deterministic machine can have. The compatibilist has to argue that ultimately determined "choices" may still be enough to ground moral judgments about the persons who appear to make the choices. I disagree. The absence of control over the causal factors that determine me to "choose" as I do does not shield me from the moral praise or blame that may be caused in others by factors that they also lack the right sort of control over, genuine two-way choices where the purported morally responsible agents have sufficient control which thing happens to to count as having been "up to them". I agree with the compatibilists that genuine controlled two way choice between genuinely available alternative is mythical, but seize the horn of the dilemma that concludes moral evaluations are discredited and need to be replaced by something that does not depend on the mythical free moral agents being real, being us.

Talk takes it as a given that many beings are sometimes conscious and so it amounts to a rejection of illusionism about consciousness. But it seems to be illusionistic about intentionality itself.

Actually, they probably might be able to copy lots of logical operations of thinking processes, but I don't see consciousness' mechanism in them for now.

Too much hype Like toddlers saying their first words But they will grow up

I wonder if focused ultrasound on microtubules could trigger enlightenment experiences.

Octopuses are obviously smart I am surprised you do such low-level experiments on them. A bit like Pavlovian dogs, everyone knows a dog or cat or bird associates feeding-time by sound (bash a plate a few times, they hear it) or sight - they know the person feeding them. So absurd experiments. Same thing with your octopus experiments - we know already ffs. They are nearly as clever as dogs ffs. I am interested in pre-neuron intelligence. Single cells are intelligent and have memory (e.g. roaming amoeba) so IMO they must be using an evolutionary pre-cursor to neurons that are probably similar in a rudimentary way to process environment etc. Probably proteins that have data and signalling properties and which later evolved into neurons. They must be very early-forms of neurons in single cells. So come-on lets have some action from you guys. Get alphafold images of likely-candidate folded proteins and LOOK FOR data and processing structures. Forget octopus in plastic puzzles, believe me, they are conscious. Even a fly or worm is conscious - what on earth's the matter with you? Ask Michael Levin about his planaria experiments ....

But the question is how a wave function collapse causes consciousness?