Neurosurgeon says brain does not create consciousness
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- Neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander says that science shows that the brain does not control consciousness, and that there is reason to believe our consciousness continues after death, giving validity to the idea of an afterlife.
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"trying to find consciousness in the brain is like trying to find music in the radio"
Alan Watts.
Search up the gateway process CIA papers they confirm this sort of stuff
@@rainnymph
CIA investigated a lot of nutty crap
@bobo sapiens this has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with quantum effect. read consciousness beyond life by dr pim van lommel then come back when you make sense.
@@alexxa5584 how is it nutty, it's the ultimate question of life
I thought this was bill nye
Ikr😂
THE SCIENCE GUY
Lmfao are you in kindergarten?
Yes a young Bill Nye
Same bro
Humans used to think the world was flat and we couldn’t imagine that we were on a spinning, circulating round object among so many others. I submit we are still in the dark about what is really going on out there and how it relates to us.
Interesting. What do you think we might be missing in our current view of the world?
moonbeamskies The universe, understanding how gravity works, dark matter, life on other planets, intelligent live on other planets, black holes, and many others scientists are still trying to understand.
@@moonbeamskies3346 What many scientists and many people, who align their beliefs of the world with a materialistic paradigm, miss is that conciousness might NOT be produced by the brain and that it is entirely possible that matter is derivative from conciousness itself. Conciousness might be the most fundamental thing in experiencing and engaging in reality, but science is mislead in a way that it thinks that matter is the most fundamental of things.
That's a rational thought.
cx777o what if our minds created all this like this is all a memory we just don’t know it.
Brilliantly said , I lost my dad 10 days ago , the most painfull part is not knowing where he is at this moment ! This is the kind of education humanity needs in times like this .
Don't worry next is you, me, everybody
Don't think about it let it go
I feel where you're coming from. I lost my father just over a month ago and ironically so, science has brought more calmness and resignation to my life during these tough times than any religious belief has been able to. There truly is A LOT more we DON'T KNOW than what we think we know. Consciousness must be more than just the brain.
@@TrudeausBlackFace No, it doesn't
That depends on the decisions he made in this life...
@@user-xl6qe7gd3j It is amusing how people get caught up and talk about a tragedy where people died or a celebrity like it's never gonna happen to them.
Bill Nye The Conscious Guy
I laughed too hard at this😭😭
underrated
hahahha lol
It's Bill Nihilist The Secular Guy
Haha! that’s funny lmaooo
The consciousness is the Wi-Fi, the brain is the computer.
But the WiFi cannot serve its purpose without the computer unless there are other devices for the WiFi to inhabit...
Hey I think there’s a religion about this
Nice, but if I were to add to your comment, I'd say the WI-FI is the Soul, Consciousness is the Internet (Source) and The Computer is the Brain.
@@lowkeyotaku2373 super interesting
Hey that's actually pretty clever. Ive been looking into this thing alot lately it kindof (but not really) irks me when i see people compare humans to computers in the aspect of death like similar to what Hawking once said "a computer dies it ceases to function" well there's multiple ways a computer can die and cease to function, but more often than not you can just pull the harddrive (where the OS, closest computer function to a conscience; is located) out of it and throw it in another computer and have it working again, or recover its data. We can't necessarily do that with human beings. Though my tech knowledge is quite elementary (let alone my knowledge in neuroscience) compared to other technicians i do work with computers daily. Im not attempting to open some debate im just kindof rambling my thoughts.
@@microgencompany1383 theres a religion about this? What computers and wifi? I need to know about this religion
brain is just a limitation of our true consciousness. Since, it is designed according to this physical life and requirements. Last sentence was the summary:)
The soul is the accumulation of all your memories stored in the brain. There is no consciousness without the brain. Is there another life thats not physical? Lmfao dont do drugs
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@@Jblah I am the same I now, as I was when I was 4 y.o., despite hundreds times more memories now, 30 years later. My thoughts are differnet, but I'm still the same I.
How the heck does something physical like a brain somehow restrict and filter something nonphysical like consciousness if consciousness is nonphysical? That doesn't seem to be logically or realistically possible but if there is an answer I would like to know.
@@Jblah How the heck does something physical like a brain somehow restrict and filter something nonphysical like consciousness if consciousness is nonphysical? That doesn't seem to be logically or realistically possible but if there is an answer I would like to know.
That must be why, it feels like two people inside me. Like when you talk to yourself, trying to process the physical world.
Exactlyyyyyyyyy like you’re a realistic deep thinker
Yes ,simple thing to think about very quick. When you do something that you thought from your mind is a good idea but as your doing it a higher observer says that is not right and isn’t a good idea (as ur still taking action and your mind is almost on freemode and autopilot at this moment)then you end up quitting what u are doing in that exact moment. It’s like a second voice. What many call a higher self. It is you. Awareness of all. This is what guides you to ascendance .
What about when you forget about something and suddenly remember it like a week later. Maybe it’s a result of the outcome of random occurances that triggers our brain to remember. Oooor, my favorite theory: that some universal consciousness (perhaps brought together by people who are dead) is guiding your mind telepathically to remember. Have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to forget something you WANT to forget and vice versa?
The left and right brain hemispheres have their own wills and personalities which is why most people have the sense of a divided self. Split brain patients with severe epilepsy who have had their corpus callosum surgicaly severed (which connects the hemispheres) will behave as two separate individuals after the procedure. Read Iain McGilchrists The Master and his Emmisary, it's mind bendingly interesting.
I always believed that consciousness was your self awareness but without form , just energy,,, and your brain is just the part of your body that allows consciousness to interact with the physical world around us,,, giving us senses, memories etc,,,, I believe that consciousness is an energy that we have yet to discover
No consciousness is beyond energy.
Consciousness is more vast.. A broad way including the vibrations, energy and stimulation and alot more..
Today's world is a matrix and entire illusion.
@@neptune0909 What about yesterday world ? Was that an illusion too ?
@@omaribnalahmed5967 Are you saying there is a place where energy does not exist ?
@@neptune0909 matrix bru ur the delusional this real just how you interpret if u think like that everything’s the matrix
This was my theory. I thought that no one will be able to understand me. But I found someone that thinks exactly like me. :)
I will give every theroy a chance to win me over what excatly do you beleive is going on
Brain is a limitation of our true consciousness, that itself is a true proposition, I don't think any one who take brains and consciousness serious would find your statement strange.
When we take a nap and wake up , we were waken up from oblivion, even the question of "what was it?" is invalid, you can't actually says it was nothing. But for a long night dreamless sleep, though you didn't had a dream, but to asks yourself "what was it?" you can somewhat says nothing, or objectively claim that consciousness was in weak state.
I proposes, it is because during nap, our brain blinds the entire conscious experience, and during a sleep whole night, brain didn't shut for whole night, and thus our consciousness was not blind during the whole sleep, thus we can have conscious experience, such as dream , or other form of weak conscious state.
What neuroscientist and those philosophers of cognition are telling us, it is that, our consciousness is not supposed to be delimited by brain after the brain is dead, it will expands, because the brain doesn't blind consciousnesses anymore. This is my imaginative understanding, which is certainly not academic way of semantic, but the idea should be conveyed enough.
Bro u are right.
But Please clear me some doubts
All our memories ,learnt information from childhood can exist without brain out of our physical body ? Can our soul or mind hold this all information without brain ?
AllRounder no
I understand & agree ♥️
Plato referred to Materialists as 'terrible men' and 'very stubborn and perverse mortals', by the looks of these comments, I see not much has changed.
Amen, it's alot of us Americans mainly tho, but forget em, let them be, n well enjoy
Philo Theism That’s not the issue. The mind body dichotomy creates a lot more logical errors than either materialism or idealism. This is more along the lines of Descartes.
Justan Michael Americans are not the only people on earth.
Very self concited and sheltered to pedestool yourself over other consciousness when we all live and perceive reality differently. Why pity when there is no such thing as a right perspective. In the end we all are walking our own walk but end up in the same place eventually. Accumulate from others instead of dissing it as degenerative. You are not woke, nobody is.
@@epicminecraftplayer-fx9do consciousness needs materialists to keep the story interesting.
And it also needs the OP to judge the materialists, you to pull him up over his judgement, me to comment about the story needing contrast and the potential of someone to comment about my comment
"When ur physical body dies, ur consciousness actually expands tremendously "
There u go, he said it, but is still confused about Existence of soul.
I don't think we were ment to know everything while alive,
Maybe all the answers are unlocked after you die 😊
Well you wouldn't need to be conscious of life if you didn't have one
Lol who's here because they can't stop think of what happens after you die
@@danbruno5945 not me, thinking about that is ultimately a waste of time
Why try to answer an unanswerable question? We'll never know what comes until it happens, all we have is evidence and beliefs. And that evidnece and beliefs make me believe in the afterlife.
Our body is the car, the steering wheel is the brain, and the soul is the driver.
Do you mean the soul is eternal and there is an afterlife?
Mark Vrahotes there is100 percent an afterlife
How much you smoky
I smell bs.
@@anthonywilliams2764 You mean zero percent, you nut!
The comment section proves humanity is not ready for this knowledge yet. People are addicted to the illusion and have no interest in the real nature of the soul or of reality (which are the same thing). They will blindly believe anything a scientist says about 11 dimensions, virtual particles, dark matter, etc but believing in the existence of their own soul is just far too much.
Yeah, I agree. You've got the materialists on one side, who are bonded to the idea that reality is only physical. And on the other we have the rigid, narrow-minded religious folks, with their various superstitious beliefs in things like demons and devils, or an angry, vengeful "God" - and the need to actually be "saved" from that so-called loving "God" via a bloody corpse offering. It's so bizarre, because both sides are deeply trapped in self-limiting beliefs. But there are more and more folks who are indeed moving toward the "middle," and can therefore examine all the evidence with a clear, open mind. Cheers
11 dimensions, dark matter etc. are all things people have a reasons to believe (I would say that they are 100% certain, but nevermind). Not only there is no reason to believe a soul, it's so intellectually lazy. This false fantasy of gathering some knowledge that doesn't exist in space-time is ridiculous. And if it's in space-time? That's science.
Some interesting work in determining whether material reality is base reality or not is being done at the University of Virginia, School of Medicine, among others. I understand that it's not always easy to consider the possibility of things beyond our own "self-imposed limitations." But when people as intellectually advanced as Elon Musk are saying that it's billions to one against our observable reality (space-time) being base reality, I'd say it's well worth looking into - which many people are diligently doing. Billions to one. Cheers.
med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/
Most people want beliefs that can be packaged and sold. they don't want truth
@@riccardo_aquilanti dude are you ok... no reason?? There guy literally had an NDE when his brain was entirely shut down and joined the millions more that have had NDE's that can't be scientifically explained
I like to think that consciousness is different from reality. It's a bridge that connects the soul or consciousness to this place, and when we die we go back. Maybe we've never even been there and once we die we arrive somewhere else. A place where consciousness is all powerful in a way. Not that it knows everything, but that it just exists on its own plain of existence. Something that's nothing like Earth or reality. Kind of like a sandbox mode but for everything imaginable. No limitations what-so-ever. Comlpete freedom and peace.
and what could be more beautiful than that :)
Astounding to me that someone speaking such metaphysical TRUTH has been given a mainstream platform like Larry King. Right on!!
What historical figure said, "I am the truth, the way, the light."? The name escapes me.
@@tlafleur8433 well, probably quite a few people, actually. You know all the names, or do you know one allegorical reference that usually gets mistreated as if its literal?
I hope that many people who brought us laughter and joy can find happiness in beyond, and those who were conflicted find peace.
Larry King: "Doesn't it almost destroy everything you've learned?"
Dr. Eben Alexander: "Absolutely not, in fact, it opens the door to a far broader understanding." "Because what we're saying is the brain is simply a reducing valve that allows certain conscious states to exist!"
Well said! I couldn't agree more!
(It's totally true!)
And there's proof of this! Jellyfish are conscious despite having no brain.
Jellyfish are not in fact conscious
@@pabloreed7717 have you been a jellyfish?
@@pabloreed7717 how
@@komahinacanon526 how are they not conscious? A better question is how could they be conscious and do you have any evidence that they are?
@@pabloreed7717 Do you have evidence they arnt theres a chance it does
Our brain/body is the hardware while our soul is the software, and when our body fails/dies our soul gets transferred/backed to a cosmic server/afterlife.
i’ve always had the feeling that we’re organic robots. And that mechanical inventions also have the potential for human level self awareness.
@@reylime2991 we have managed artificial intelligence, that proves that the brain didn't require to make some fake consiousness (us), which means we are not the brain nor originate from
I've been really struggling with the thought of death recently. It's been eating at my brain for days and I'm having trouble with reality.
I can't imagine that in order to evolve over time, that we as humans became so self aware to the point to where we question this stuff and it actually harms us by doing so. The increased anxiety and fear of either a soon to be death or future death. We just never know. I'm thankful there are people that are trying to research consciousness... But at the same time, we don't know if we will live long enough to find out the answer.
Try reading the Quran, sincerely. It answers the existential questions, why we are here, what’s next after death, who put us here.
Idk how old you are but of you’re just getting curious and it’s on your mind it’s not going away anytime soon. I have thought about this just about everyday for the past 5 years or so.
Even as a Christian (don’t start a ruckus about this) I have been worried that I will die and in reality, nothing will happen. Its been in my head for a few days, but this video kinda helps me. But still theres that possibility that I will just be wrong in the end, and the thing is, if death really is just the end of your consciousness permanently then you will never be able to know what you thought would happen didn’t. It can be comforting to know that you wont know, but it can also be a scary thought. And the world not being able to know for sure if its really the end doesn’t help either.
@Sensei The problem is that, if nothing happens after death (atheism) then we cant know, because for us to realize the concept of nothing we have to be aware, and if we die according to atheism we are not aware. But if dont think conciusness is just awareness, we are atoms, and however you put atoms in any specific order, conciusness wont appear except in living things, and only in certain, like us or some animals that have advanced instincts.
@@roimorgan10roblox64 thats what the devil wants from you. Do not worry child, Jesus, the son of god, died for our sins. Believe in him and you will have eternal life. Also, checkout the 21 grams experiment where they found the body loses 21 grams after death, accurately determining the soul has a weight of 21 grams and leaves your body after death.
I had a dream about this weeks before i found out about this.
Fascinating how the human subconscious can find out things that are quite incredible about existance itself.
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@@customvegandiet9491 okolina jagodine
I just want to know where my son is now and how he is? I am already gone. moving like a walking dead
I am your actual son
Sorry for your loss
@@davidregi7571 what a nob you are
Me too... me too
Fundamentally are awareness lives on but maybe not our human identity.
This is exactly what the Advaita Vendanta says about consciousness!! Quite interesting to see scientists coming to a similar conclusion!!
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@Shayak. Vedanta speaks of a permanent soul that was created by the creator as do the Abrahamic religions, yet certain part of the ancient Vedas speak not of a creator, instead say that there was the universe before the gods.
I've had dreams,or I guess what you would call premonitions,about places that I had not been to yet.I started a new job,in an area I had not been to before,and I realized that I had already had a vision of the street I was walking down! It was incredibly specific..with the houses in the exact same spots.I had that experience of seeing something in my mind that my eyes had never seen, so I believe him when he says that conciousness extends beyond the brain.
Yes when I see some new person then it seems that I have seen them already .But in reality I don't know tgem
@@path199 Thats deja vu
I'm swearing, i have experienced it few times.
But it may be illusion.
@@shivharisharma4000
Illusion of what? A place you haven't seen before?
timeline shifting is real.
I love seeing such insightful interviews wish it was longer would have loved to hear more
My mom died with Alzheimer's, I was worry about she could find the way to heaven or find another womb. I was worried, but I think I can understand how consciousness work when brain activity is minimal. I think I can understood this fully.
I love you friend❤
well you probably wouldn't see her again if recarnation is a thing but if it is you are assigned a family of souls then your mom would wait years for your granmom to have a child then you if this is true but you wouldnt know
When I look at people now, I don't look at them as people I see them as supreme consciousness or "I am" expressing itself through a body. Consciousness is what brings life to everything. Everything is connected. We are all one being.
Excellent video, thanks for posting, much appreciated. I just bought this book because of this great video : )
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Yeah, when I think about consciousness I cannot come up with any other logical explanation than that it is something that is natural to the universe (obviously, we are here and we have it) and that we only filter it, kinda like light consists of all colors and you can split it up. I would go as far as to say that we are part of the same consciousness but divided by our memories and, well, brains in general. We obviously can't share our human experiences with each other in a way that is understandable for humans. I don't believe in stuff like telepathy or whatever, the way I think about consciousness is not something that changes life itself. But it does give some hope for "death" because in a way, you aren't the human body (including your brain), you are the universe having a human experience. And with death it is kinda like amnesia, your personality and memories get deleted, but the most substantial part of "you" is still there: the consciousness
The current winning theory on consciousness is the microtubules in our neurons are able to funnel quantum functions of super position collapsing into one or the other states. Each of those is described as a building block that makes up conciousness. Which is totally in line. Particles collapsing into one state is a super common thing all over the universe. So bits and pieces of consciousness are scattered all throughout the universe. I have yet to even mention how every particle is entangled with another particle somewhere in the universe as well. Which includes the particles in our brains too.
Our mind limits us from think in right way, the more harder you think the more you go away from reality
Interesting. I’m just thinking about this kind of stuff again today. There’s just too many people that think you could just put a brain in a jar or upload your brain and that would be consciousness, where obviously your brain is important you really only interface with the world through the body. Uploading a conscious is just dying and leaving a trash copy. Hoping it never happens.
Imagine if we're real energy going through different living organisms in different worlds.
I sense massive developments and understandings into our consciousness coming within the next 5-10 years. Gonna change the way we see things soon
I like the idea that the brain evolved like a radio that now picks up the signal of consciousness from a distant source.
I’ve never understood why people are against this way of thinking. If this is true it means there’s a reason, to live with reason is to live for filled.
Why would you want to believe that it’s all for nothing and it’s going to end in nothing. It’s such a pessimistic view point that serves no one any good.
I don’t believe in god, I don’t believe in anything supernatural. I believe in what can be proved and it’s starting to seem very likely that consciousness is a lot more than just being inside a locked room.
Because the greatest and only advantage when it comes to nihilism is the absence of any responsibility.
De Oliveira Damien don’t see why believing in life after death requires responsibility. If anything it means there’s less of.
"want to believe"?
like a grieving mother "wants to believe" that her miscarriaged unborn is still alive? or "want to believe" that I'm a genius even when I'm not? you believe because you know, you know because you sense it. you don't form your knowledge on what you believe. you form your beliefs on what you know is true.
what you call a pessimist is rather a realist. you believe because of evidence, not in spite of it.
to be frank, I don't understand why belief or disbelief in an afterlife should affect accountability for one's life. one could argue that living a moral life secure a place in heaven. therefore there's responsibility there. or you could argue since there's a second life, this one doesn't matter. you could also argue in contrary, that since there's no god and heaven, everything is meaningless. or you could argue that since this is the only life we have, we should strive to live it to the fullest.
Whether he's right or not- Why do you people care so much what is the truth? (I mean in a sense that we YET DON'T KNOW and you've already made your conclusions)
Isn't it better to consider every information (Or at least accept it for what it is) and then decide what to do with it rather than reactively rejecting it?
What if reincarnation is real and it's just many of us who haven't experienced that? What if? What if we can turn inwards as some cultures say and realise our true selves (or illusions of that)? I mean- what's the point of denying that if there's no 100% evidence for any side of the story that couldn't be denied?
I love the idea of exploring possibilities and seeing what we don't know and what we can learn. Lets say I don't know that I have brain in my head yet I somehow think. Lets say I'm at that level of knowledge in 2018. Now someone comes up to me, we talk and I say- do you ever notice that you have these thoughts? Like what the hell, how could that be? How could I touch and sense something? It makes no sense.
And that person says- Ohhh, you don't know? We have nervous system, brains and all that, it works in this and that way.
And you're like- No way, that's not true.
And I'm not even continuing the story of that because REGARDLESS OF if there's evidence of proving that theory or not, in any way automatically rejecting it seems like a dumb idea, isn't it?
Gedas Well the simple answer is that not all ideas represent the world in the same accuracy, clarity, or usefulness. That’s the problem with post modern thought and why new age science is prevalent and gives quakes like these a platform
@@henrywolf5332 You do not have a clue.
Marta Martínez Palacián A clue about what? Tangential hypotheticals. Or replying to year old comments. Can you elaborate.
Harvard Neurosurgeon vs small minded, keyboard scholar Sam Harris fans in the comments.
I love your comment, where you wrote "Sam Harris". The rest of what you wrote was nonsense.
Nailed it!
Philo Theism.. I wonder where his teacher and his teacher and his teacher learned what they know?
Nice appeal to authority fallacy. Stop being a sheep and look at the evidence.
This”s why some people that die experience out of body experiences where their heart stops, but somehow remember what was happening at that moment .
Wouldn't this mean that who we are is determined by the filters applied by our brain to consciousness? So if when we die and we expand in consciousness, do we become one with everyone who has died thereby losing characteristics that make each of us unique?
Thats what I was thinking. I think we all kind of meet in this place were we'll stay
Yes, we are all receivers of consciousness, but we can use our minds as processors to run imagined consciousness and overlap it with reality, this will synchronize with whatever you are observing, and by doing this you are co creating with consciousness and hopefully you vibrate high energy frequencies with love and since everyone are a receiver, they will instantly be affected.
I worked out some time ago, but difficult to explain to others that, we all live our lives in out heads. What we see, hear, feel, etc, emotions of love, hate etc, we experience in our heads. We can live in the outside world but we experience it in our heads.
@Jack. Absolutely right. It is difficult to explain what is intuitive knowledge/reality and easy for others to understand that which can be experienced by the 5 senses.
@@MustAfaalik Reality is different for everyone. Then I ask myself, what is reality. Animals sense things beyond our limited five senses, so reality for them is different from ours. We think we are the superior species, but because of out own limitations, and our willingness to be deceived, are we ?? We have to label things so we can try to understand them better. Animals don't. A Bee, does not have to give a flower a name, to know or understand what it is. Why do we have to take everything apart to understand it ? I feel we could understand it more if we just took the time to sit and just look. Observe without constantly asking the why. I have sat and watched a flower and the interactions that go on around it. I know instinctively, know by just watching, just how important that flower is. I don't need to name it or dissect it to know this. The insects that visit it, tell me all I need to know. Sorry, I do go on. Last thing, why do we humans have to complicate our lives with things that are of no matter, or ignore what should be important to us. It's all in the head.
@@soulman.9835 Perhaps the saying that "our live is the creation of our mind" might help. Especially when you sit and just observe is a kind of meditation itself; being just mindful and accessing into your consciousness that is of dependent origination.
@@MustAfaalik I think ancient man understood what you say better than people today, when survival depended on it. We were more sensitive to our surroundings. You know the saying, listen to your gut feelings ? This is where we used to live, the sixth and most important of our senses I feel. The other five take in info from the other five, and the brain decodes it. This is one explanation I feel it right, but it still does not explain everything.
@@soulman.9835 I follow what you are saying. It is interesting to know that the scientific field are researching into the subject and right now it is just hypotheses. Mine is that conciousness that is attributed to our five senses can be termed as mundane consciousness, the kind that is used in conventional usage in the temporal world, whereas that which is experienced through the sixth sense or mindful meditation is supramundane consciousness or higher consciousness that leads to intuitive knowledge. What do you think?
I still feel as if we cease to exist and don’t get to think for ourselves and just slowly fade
The consciousness/soul is the driver. The brain is the steering wheel. And the human body is the car. Once our body dies our soul loses its vehicle and we’re on foot for enternity
@Ur. The soul is supposed to be permanent and of single origin; my hypothesis is that consciousness is of dependent origin on mind and body.
I always wondered, if brain and consciousness are distinct substances, then why is that always during this specific time where the brain damage that is a materialistic process can effect the consciousness that is a mental process, such as change in perception or how we view the world around us?
I think you’re making it harder than it is. Well at least understanding this argument. This guy I’m sure would say of course brain damage will effect your human consciousness in negative ways. This guy believes there’s infinite consciousness most of which we can’t conceptualize. If we did damage to the cerebellum of the brain we could expect someone to have balance issues maybe they couldn’t walk anymore etc. We’re only experiencing human consciousness it’s all we currently can interact with.
Think about it like running water through a dirty filter. Taking clean water from the source, filtering it, and then drinking the water. If the brain is the filter and consciousness is the source of our experience, filtering consciousness through a damaged brain will effect the perceived experience.
There's no distance in remote viewing. It means that consciousness is not located in the brain.
Remote Spewing. Fails all tests. Just Get OUT! OR, take your remote viewing skills to Las Vegas and make millions. Ha Ha Ha ha.
There is a good CZcams channel for the sort of thing here. It's called Afterlife topics and metaphysics 😎😎
Consciousness is like a guy sitting alone in a cinema watching the film of someone’s life happen. He has no control over the film. But if he wasn’t there the film would still play out the same way but nobody would have seen it.
Its simply really, think of it as a radio. It's not the information itself, but the device is needed to gain it.
Yeee
Angry atheists in the comments
We should be angry that such a distinguished and learned person is resorting to fanciful ideas that almost none of his peers share.
@@randomgamingstuff1 and yet you criticize someone with a theory that doesn't follow what you believe in? You're angry? Why? Does the notion of a well respected scientist taking the bumpy road that a majority of scientists neglect a form of idiocy? You feel like he is shaming the scientific community but he is challenging the current consensus on what quantifies consciousness. Believe what you want, that's an amicable trait, but do not submit to absolute ignorance in the name of "science".
Atheists believe in God they just don't want to for some reason so deny it
@@randomgamingstuff1 distinguished and learned people don't resort to anything or they wouldn't be the first two things, atheists hate when science make breakthroughs about big questions, they want to stay in there God hating pessimistic cocoons forever, haha you have to have an after life
@@adamdouglas5596 No I think its just the false consensus effect wreaking havoc with your reasoning faculties.
I searched this up at 2 in the morning because my thoughts scare me. I am desperately looking for an answer for consciousness. I believe the answer is the key to knowing life after death. If consciousness is on a physical plain like a section of your brain, then when your brain dies with your body, you including your consciousness will cease, to exist meaning that after death people who say there is nothing after death will be right. You won’t be able to think or have any thought or feeling of any kind. You would see nothing, not even black or white but no color at all which is hard to think of. I don’t believe in heaven or a religious life after death but I just want to know if there is something, anything at all. A feeling, or a thought, or anything to know that I existed, which is why I hope it is not a physical part of you which would mean that your consciousness could live on after death. (Sorry about the big rant but it’s too scary of a thought to keep to myself)
It will be like before you were born you need a body and a brain to navigate the physical plane. Before you had a body you had no experience or maybe you were someone else and when their body died your essence which is your concousness connected to a new body. Concousness is a type of field that is universal the brain is the computer that filters in and hacks into it when the brain dies concousness does not until a new body and brain develops the ability to hack into it and become aware therfore you will experience life again I truly believe we live multiple lives over and over again as different people with different experiences we just have no knowledge of the previous life because that previous body is no longer living.
I hope I can provide some insight here, when you are out of your body (this apparently can be induced experimentally or for most of us, it happens when one is close to death or “flatlined”) you have a perspective shift (eg when you are watching a DVD movie on the screen your eyes are directly across in “real time” from it vs. looking at a DVD disk from above and you can see the whole thing at one time) it is not scary at all. Consciousness from what I have experienced is NOT part of the physical body, because I was able to see things from a higher perspective that normal reality defies. I had profound thoughts, feelings and could see vivid color. So how could this happen if I had lost all connection with my physical body (besides, being able to see it from the sky)? I have to reason that consciousness is not part of the physical body. I thought I was dead, or entering a different dimension, presumably death. you will find that people generally are more amazed and at peace when this happens, not scared. Of course, I can’t tell you what happens during ultimate death because when I came back into my body my perspective went back to normal. But it does make you more open to the idea consciousness is separate from the body/brain, and after death this may or may not continue. Personally I think it does given the experience I had, and I’m no longer afraid of this dimensional change. If consciousness ceases after a time after death, well so be it, there’s no pain in that dimension anyway. Wishing you peace in your journey.
Dont fight the feelings just accept and have ur house in order when the time comes.Personally there is a right way to die,for me it is outside surrounded by the wind,rain ,sunshine,darkness,hot or cold.So long as Im enveloped by the elements .Whether I drift off to nothingness or expand doesnt then matter
We were all just fine before we were conscious. Relax.
@@stevejones148 no
Conciousness is like a AI code, you could put it in 2d character inside simulation or you could bring it out into 3d world by putting it into robot. our physical body can't go into higher dimensions but our conciousness can. Is this where we go after death? Is there any chance that we become higher dimension beings after we die ?
You would have been a higher dimensional being before you got born then. So why would you turn from a higher dimensional being into a lower dimensional being? Especially, you can philosophize a lot about what happens after death. But what about the beginning? Clearly consciousness in a human being starts somewhere as an infant a couple months old. You really think some higher dimensional being would just get teleported into an infants brain for some random reason? And what about all the other conscious beings like all animals? If you would apply that logic to humans, you would need to apply it to all conscious beings. And you really think there is a point in a fly becoming a higher dimensional being after it dies? The fact that consciousness starts somewhere in the very early stages of body and brain development clearly shows that consciousness is ultimately caused entirely by the brain. Or you really think that an infant would just at some point, somehow access a higher dimension while being in your mothers stomach? Even more absurdly, a baby fly? Only to live for 2 weeks or like a spider, just sitting in the same place almost its entire life just waiting for food. All "lower" levels of consciousnesses like in animals just seem to indicate that its entirely related to their brain. There is no conscious being known that is conscious but doesn't have a brain. What would be special about the brain that it could access a higher dimension or anything else? Afterall, a flys brain can do it and its extremely tiny and simple. If such a thing would exist, we should be able to find it and it should be one thing that all brains share.
if we can develop a robot brain as sophisticated and complex as the human brain maybe it will reach a level to connect to consciousness and become self aware but to build a robot brain as complex as the human brain is thousands of years away if not downright impossible.
Thanks for being adventurous, Larry. I enjoyed this. 👍
If consciousness exist outside brain,then we are living for eternal🥰
You would live multiple lives as different people you would have no knowledge of your previous incarnation and it would be a hard reset new lifes new experiences over and over the brain is a computer that evolved to a level that is able to connect to the conscious field of the universe when we die a new body connects to the field if thats the case we are Pure conscious beings consciousness is the essence of all and the body is a vehicle that uses consciousness to navigate the physical universe.
Love his book, Gave me hope and calm
What I would like to know is, when our bodies die, will our consciousness continue? I suffer from AF. Lymphedema and cellulitis. So I'm not long for this earth really. Just wondering.
yes it does. i hope you are coping during this difficult time. stay strong. consciousness is not produced by the brain and therefore when we die it continues.x
@@Dion_Mustard yes
Tecnically what we define as conciusness can't be explained by science, but if it's not based upon matter, and it's instead energy (what we actually think it is) then it does, as the "soul" (conciuss-self) Will still be that energy, i personally think there is an afterlife, but what is there is yet to be said. but i can say, it's big. i mean, really REALLY big, whatever it is.
Man, who else figured this out years ago without the need of a doctorate degree? It's part of us.
Man, you haven’t figured out anything. Even if we granted this theory that’s like .0001 percent of understanding anything. Great job let’s shut down all further learning there’s nothing left!! No degree, research, or peer reviewed journals needed!
@@stevejones148 I dont think he meant it like that I think what he meant is that since he was a neurosurgeon he stopped believing in the after life then after years he started beliveing
I hope what he is saying is true. Death is to scary
What leads him to believe that after death it would expand instead of shrinking to nothing?
WOW, I was thinking about this on my own recently and was thinking that the brain is kinda like a tv with an antenna. It has to receive broadcasted signal to work.
If you lose all your memories, YOU are dead as you are the sum of your memories, that's a completely different person now. Like a full SD card having everything erased, physically it's the same, but internally it will NEVER be the same. You are both the brain in THAT body, and those memories all together, without both, your don't exist.
SAO Anime Freak let me go to my patients and let them know they are dead since they have severe dementia. You realize how ignorant that sounds?
One day you'll understand and hopefully won't be soo ignorant goodluck
@@StephenAlexanderVideos telling them they're dead would be incorrect, as that person is a different person within that body, unless all the memories are restored that last person Is no more.
SAO Anime Freak oh Jesus you are far too ignorant
SAO Anime Freak one day you will hopefully understand and won't be soo ignorant goodluck
The comment section make me think that people are not as much interested in finding the truth as they just want to be right.
The debate purpose should be about discovering truth and not to make everyone agree with you. That’s how debate becomes successful
@@NajwyzszaKaplanka Actually, debate is about comparing two different arguments. It's not about finding truth, but which perspective is easier to argue. And the job of each debater is to make the best case for their argument that they possibly can regardless of whether it's true or that debater believes it.
That's formal debate, though, and it's meant to be approached formally with impartial judges and prep time.
What you're talking about is more like a discussion, where new information and perspectives are shared without argument. I agree that the world would be nicer if we had more discussions than fights.
i heard about this from many people. but do we have a solid evidence.
Y’know when I think to myself in the mids eye. I always find myself referring to my brain in the third person. Like “Nawh that would hurt my brain.” “Me and my brain”
I wonder why that is.. maybe its cause my conciousness isnt my brain at all. Its simply a conductor or “valve” as this guy says helping me relay what I am in this human form.
Either way its just crazy to really dig deep into the concept of human conciousness and the soul itself. Its a mindblowing rabbit hole to try to understan.
I believe in life after death of the physical boy. Let me just say, I don't believe in religion. During a conversation, I was asked, what is I am wrong...I replied, I won't know, I will be dead, but what if I am right, where does that leave you ?
Love his shirt color!
Excellent . You are on the right tract .your understanding is in line with the Vedic understanding
But for how long until we are dust? or when our body and mind rot away?
This is so meta. The brain is telling itself that it's faking consciousness
It's telling itself that it's telling itself that it's telling itself that it's faking its own consciousness.
@@patricioansaldi8021 lol
When I Die I Want To Be Released From This Body And Explore The Universe Forever Without Being Trapped In A Religious Realm Of Good Or Evil...
I want to explore mars
@@IkeReviews Cryopreserve your body or you never will
Same.. I want no physical ties.. just explore as if time doesn't exist, and the universe is a garden of wonder..
Great explanation
The filter idea is OVER 200 years old (at least in print). Fechner (one of the principle architects of psychology as a formal discipline) wrote an entire book on the subject in the mid 1800s. This guy has about as little idea of the basic issues involved in consciousness as I have ideas and expertise in quantum computing.
Dear people in the comment section you dont know anything
Right back at ya
I bet i know more than you. Whicj probably isn't hard to achieve since all u do is throw out regurgitated philosofical cliches. LMAO
Unfortunately there's a movement going on which claims that if you believe anything outside the realm of what science is equipped to understand, then you're an idiot. Ironically, only idiots believe this. The rest of us know that science is NOT the only path to truth. Fortunately, there are many in the field of science that understand this as well. In the words of David Berlinsky, "What a man rejects as distasteful must always be measured against what he is prepared eagerly to swallow."
Kevin Mac That movement is called being a atheist.
So if truth can't be uncovered by experimentation, verification and science, then what's the other path to truth?
I hope it's not "believing all the random & contradictory folks who claim to have superior truth because they say so".
Or worse, I hope it's not found in "an ancient book written by mortals who claim they had superior knowledge".
BTW I do believe our culture, history, traditions and DNA do have wisdom embedded in them based on "what worked for others in the past". It's just not always clear, nor is it always applicable, so I find questioning and testing things out experimentally can increase the resolution by a lot.
@@ChrisJohnsonHome Never said that science cannot uncover truth. I said that it is not the ONLY path to truth. Logic and philosophy are also paths to truths that science cannot empirically verify.
But the thing is you put someone to sleep in a neck choke then they don't remember what happened
Why? Because the blood is not flowing to the brain
hence consciousness is out
Then there is the fact noth drugs and head injuries can alter consciousness. So you are correct there is too much evidence showing it is from the brain.
His nde story was insane!
Virtual reality can trick the mind into ego death
Super underrated comment
DMT
that's interesting. what are you implying?
Would consciousness be inclusive of all beings in the universe? I sense it would because I don't think such an advanced yet complex sense of awareness be limited only to humans.
So where does it go when were sleeping?
It’s been a minute since I’ve seen this guy
Even my atheist friend believes in an eternal soul or consciousness but I am not an atheist but is an Agnostic
Dr Jim Tucker has been documenting children claims of past lives for decades now. It's fascinating stuff. Look it up.
@Rayne SG a.k.a. inkyrayne Just start meditating and experience it for yourself.
AMAZING!
Now that’s what I call a cliffhanger...
It’s hard to trust when he’s trying to sell a book
But you also have to keep in mind he’s a known neurologist. Publishing such book can also have an impact on his reputation and how his peers view him. There are also non lucrative testimony and organizations about NDE (such as he experienced and changed his views) that send the same message.
I could tell he was selling something by the way he smashed everyone over the head with his fake quantum mechanics.
Consciousness doesn't collapse the wave function. Measurement does (ie. any external interaction).
And what gets me is that people take NDEs seriously.
Let's walk through an NDE, step by step, like a detective:
1. Someone reports having an NDE.
2. So you check their brain.
3. Sure enough their physical brain has physical memories of a vivid out of body experience.
4. So you trace those physical memories back to the physical experience that encoded those memories into the hippocampus.
5. At this point you have two options:
(a) you find out something non physical interacted with physical matter to encode those memories into the physical brain which allowed the person to report on their NDE.
Or
(b) something physical in the brain created those memories (like a lucid dream, trauma, hypoxia, disassociation, the brain releasing a flood of protective chemicals.)
If it turns out option (a) is correct then the non physical entity is actually 100% physical because it's interacting with physical matter just like normal physical things do. This puts the "soul" into the realm of physics and science, and would be a new discovery, enabling scientists to reverse engineer souls and create new materials that could interact with your brain and insert new memories into your head. You could even prove souls are real by putting very long sequences of random numbers above the operating table in the ER. And then ask what people saw in the operating room when they "died". If they report back the 16 digit number, then bingo! We have a discovery!
However ...
If option (b) is correct (the memories came from a dying, shocked, oxygen deprived, lucid brain state) then we'd expect ~90% of the experiences to report interesting but unsubstantiated stories that later get redacted or revised, and you'd expect ~10% to have some substantiated information with shock value (either by partial awareness, selective memory, unconscious revision, chance or a mixture of all 4). Some of these stories would surely make their rounds on social media and some would turn into best selling books (because it gives hope to the thirsty masses). But 0% of the experiences would be able to verify high fidelity information outside the brain's awareness (so none could recall the 16 digit random number: "_____________" visible above the operating table).
And guess which outcome experiments are pointing to?
Option (a) or Option (b)?
But you trust CZcams and social media, which is selling you.
@@ChrisJohnsonHome dmt or altered states of conciousness are more interesting than nde but psychedelic trips can be similar to nde. It's not that conciousness is non phyical, more like it in higher dimensions projecting itself into 3d life, ig to play real life sims. And measurements can only be done by conciousness so conciousness doing the measurements collapse the wave function. Phyical matter is clearly not the fundamental roots of existence
How did I know this guy was going to be a Christian when I googled him
What does he meant on after life i can't understand ?
Larry knows the truth
As a neurologist I would not let this guy anywhere my brain.
Who cares? You have no evidence he is wrong. He has direct experience and plenty of evidence that your Materialist assumptions are wrong.
Did the chemicals produce those delusions of reality between your ears, or did you freely choose those thoughts with rational agency - apart from chemically induced delusions?
@@atheismkills3748 Please don't spread your genes please.
The vedic literature has a very definite explanation of the sequences we struggle with .
We are the individual souls trapped in the body . Consciousness is the symptom of the soul .
Consciousness pervades the brain as well as the entire body . It is non physical and thus expansive . At the time of death the soul transmigrates to another realm ( mainly different species )
There is evolution but of the soul not the bodies .
The evolution of bodies if true can only produce robots . Fish robots . Human robots .that too, with intelligent design and not by chance . Are you listening mr Dawkins .
This is not my person view but extracted from the oldest and the the most concluded “the Vedic scriptures” adheres by million in thousand yrs of intelligent human existence.
Bro just blew my mind
"The body is a limiting adjunct" Ramana Maharshi (not Maharishi)
I'd like to point out that he's a neurosurgeon and not a neuroscientist, and that the bulk of his claims are anecdotal evidence and don't come from peer-reviewed studies.
no but this man has come from a non-religious background and very much scientific materialist view and yet he had the most remarkable experience - an experience you have not had personally - and therefore you do not have the right to criticise him. if you had had the experience and everyone said you were talking rubbish i am sure you'd be pretty annoyed.
@Robert personal experience could be proof, it's just that you have not personally had the experience yourself. the fact that many hardened skeptics have had this experience and it has completely transformed their world view on consciousness and life speaks volumes. as i said, if you had personally had the experience, which you were absolutely certain was reality for you, and then someone said "yeh whatever", i am sure you'd be slightly, if not very vexed at their ignorance.
@@Dion_Mustard Is there a definite disproof that these experiences are caused by brain malfunction?
This makes me hopeful, but I would like to see what makes this guy so sure about it.
DMT
He had a brain infection. And apparently when he had no brain activity he saw heaven
Thank you for your very own continued information, devotion including understanding to support my adventure to progressively more consciously mindful and as a consequence spiritually connected.
Connect to Soul what did you mean. He said truth? Ha ha ha ha
What do you mean by that ? @ConnecttoSoul
How can consciousness expand in death when there is no means to experience it in death...can someone attempt to extrapolate what is meant by this??
Once I also used to think that souls, nonlocal consciousness, and all kinds of other philosophies are nonscence, being a science guy and science lover. I always used to read science, until I perfectly understood Descartes idea of mind body problem. I mean really his explaination is different. Science is materialism rightnow. SO, first we all need to change our view point and then understand philosophy in a different way, and so the consciousness becoz its much more than what science explains to us. Its more complex. Being a science guy is really tough for me to grasp philosophy. But learning both separately and collectively understanding both is a very good way of learning our existence.
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence." - Nikola Tesla
No, see, I'm not high enough to understand what he's talking about.
Very well stated! 💯💯
How the heck does something physical like a brain somehow restrict and filter something nonphysical like consciousness if consciousness is nonphysical? That doesn't seem to be logically or realistically possible but if there is an answer I would like to know.
I think that there is a distinction to be made here between awareness and consciousness. Awareness is absolute, while consciousness is relative. This can be compared to the relationship between space and matter. Matter looks solid, but it is really only an apparent 'something-ness' made possible by space itself. When we focus on an apparent object, it appears to be an isolated 'something' because the brain is creating a name and use for it. However, this isolation is just conceptual, not actual. In a similar way, the body and brain create a sensation of an isolated 'something-ness' and this sensation (or consciousness) is taking place within the unfathomable 'everything-ness' which is absolute awareness.