Why is Consciousness So Mysterious? | Episode 103 | Closer To Truth
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- How can the mindless microscopic particles that compose our brains "experience" the setting sun, the Mozart Requiem, and romantic love? Featuring interviews with Venerable Dr. Yifa, Susan Blackmore, Keith Ward, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, John Searle, and Colin McGinn.
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It would be lovely to fix the audio issue and re-upload the video. Thanks for such great videos.
Captions , only like one or two segments the rest of the video is completely audible
No, the audio is a disaster mess. There is no excuse for this level of incompetance in a video where everything else is high quality. This is like watching the Disney Star Wars hotel promos and wondering, who the hell did that amature mess?
@@blaster-zy7xx hold on your horses man! Things happen :)
@@MeysamShojaeeNejad ...about this crappy video audio or the crappy Disney Star Wars hotel promos?
I hope someone fixes BOTH!
Loud music trumps consciousness.
Background audio is too loud, the dialogue can't be heard
I thought it's my headphones working weirdly, now I know I wasn't alone ( By the way I wasn't expecting any errors from the author's side as they are quite experts, actually nothing so wrong from them as well )
Captions , only one or two little parts are inaudible the rest is good
The great mystery of living being, the most embarrassing audio production. Really get it all here!
Exactly, the 'voice overs' are too low compared to the background sounds.
@@therougesage7466 Nope. When I try to share these with people who are already skeptical I know they're going to toss it aside if I say "Oh, ignore the poor audio for the first 5 minutes, but I promise it will be good audio afterwards!" That's like telling someone walking into a restaurant they can get by with poor air prior to ordering their meal. Nope, it is a basic necessity.
Audio Mixing seems severely messed up on this video
The audio engineer has no consciousness.
@@Bassotronics 😂
Dude captions
What’s the purpose of doing a video if we can’t hear it or stand the background noise.really just obnoxious. Unless you’re trying to study see how many people can watch it even though they don’t like to hear the noise.
Most interesting video unfortunately the voiceover is virtually inaudible....still much of value to be inferred!
Yeah, some of the videos are very hard to hear. Damn, such good content otherwise!
Subtitles
Captions my guy same problem here lol
Yes, I inferred that they should have mixed the audio properly!
@@shane7969 no, these are old videos, they cut interviews up and release these little grab-bags at the rate of 20 per hour or so. Bizarrely, the _old_ footage here is the quite sections. So?????
Why's the background sounds so loud
The audio makes this an incredibly frustrating experience...
Captions
The audio, in the last several installments, has been poor.
Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon, or is it just my computer?
Nope, I experienced this too and it is why I haven't been sharing the videos.
Even if consciousness is just an emergent phenomena it's still fascinating and remarkable that a collection of matter could be self-aware.
we are meat machines
@@jamescollier3
Biochemical Robots
We can see our feet and memory systems aren't too magical: buckets of water and pumps could do it.
@myantispambox
Here is a video posted by a young British former Christian, who stated in the video interview this "something was eating me inside" he was talking about his own consciousness which happened after watching a few Islamic videos on youtube.
Prior to watching Islamic video he wanted to end his life due to depression. czcams.com/video/fzXU2_dJxZ4/video.html
Here is another video posted by a popular youtuber, an American who stated in this video, his conscience was bothering him, just to shut up his own conscience, he decided to read the Quran.
czcams.com/video/_DF_i_KkFvE/video.html
Quran 41:53 We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?
Robert, the sound of your voice when coming simultaneously with music is almost superseded completely by music’s volume
Tip: turn on subtitles to be able to understand the inaudible commentary.
Pa i titlovi su sranje
I don't claim to fully understand John Searle's take, but his makes the most sense to me. My favorite topic.
The brain is like the cockpit of an airplane and the soul is the pilot. Our soul is our consciousness, just my opinion.
@@jeffforsythe9514 is that soul has license to fly the plane like brain?
@@shadowoffire4307 The brain does nothing without the energy and direction of the soul(the mind)
Good episode...EXCEPT, the audio of the non-interview segments is way too low for Dr. Kuhn with the background music being much louder than his audio and the interview segments are louder still. The audio mixer was mixed up. Also, as another commenter pointed out interview, dates would help as some episodes are rather dated.
I love listening to this channel, I just wish they would get their sound fixed. So much background noise or music louder than the actual interviews.
Hello. Is there anybody out there?
I see closer to truth in the notifications , i immediately press
Very interesting topic, I am following this channel since 2 or 3 years now! Very good content, I would say Unique!
Unfortunately this video is so hard to hear! The music is too loud, and the voice over is also badly mastered.
But I will re-watch it, with subtitles next time (later today).
Again, very good content! Thank you for the channel Mr. Kuhn!
Thanks for mentioning the unbalanced audio mix. I thought I was having a browser audio issue.
Consciousness permeates the universe and is expressed through the material world in all its forms. Humans, animals, plants, the matter of the universe is all a manifestation of creative intelligence.
What's happened to the audio?
Great episode, the editing has certainly improved storywise. I don't mind the low commentary voice volume, but can be increased certainly a notch. But having a difference between interviewer and narrater function is applauded by me, it's good that you're trying. I've found these last episodes very watchable I noticed :) relaxing
Also John Searle is making a lot of sense and resonating with me, that the focus is a biological one and not a physical quantum mechanical superuniverse one, I like listening to him as the voice of the 'normal majority' of reason
However since I've seen the electrical effect of cells on each other in Michael Levin's work all bets are off right now for me. It could be waves, electromagnetical interactions, who knows: and not magical woowoo, but just interactions between biological matter and fields in a communicating way we don't yet understand. Fascinating stuff
Consciousness is intimately yours. I believe it's the only changeless reality against which all changes (even space and time) are perceived. The circumstantial evidence from NDEs is out there.
Very good discussion. Thanks 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Daniel Dennett's view makes the most sense.
This is ep. 103, and CTT is up to well over one thousand now, I just wish they would put the actual interview dates in them to gain context.
The logistics of this series astounds me. It is so well edited together. It just flows so well.
There arent 1000 episodes. first two digits is the season, second two digits are the episodes. so episode 1915 means season 19 episode 15. there are about 400 episodes total. 20 seasons and 20 eps each
@@DestroManiak Ah, thank you. They could, perhaps, have been a little clearer on the designations. So the above is ep 3. of the first season, I take it? In any case, the chopping up of whole interviews into sound-bites, and that some episodes of CTT double up, or overlap, them, still calls for proper titling.
@@simesaid This is a somewhat common naming convention for tv series.
@@DestroManiak Again, this may well be so, however, the fact remains that most TV shows _don't_ present such completely disjointed interviews, but nevertheless still _do_ provide appropriate titling as context for their audience .
Its funny how I agree with the first explanation of consciousness until I hear the second explanation of consciousness 🤔 Love this channel.
The brain is like the cockpit of an airplane and the soul is the pilot. Our soul is our consciousness, just my opinion.
It is an amazing video but the music competes with your voice in the background! Thank you for your efforts.
Good video Robert 👍
The problem as I see it is in the use of the word 'exist'. We are so attached to the 'thingyness' of reality that we that we dismiss as unreal that that is not objectively real. One way to put this is 'consiousness is real but it does not exist'. If we cannot get our heads around this we will forever be stuck with the 'problem' of consciousness. The following is an analogy, or really an example, that we can all understand. A tune is greater than the sum of its constitiuent notes, but is not accessable to reductionism. The tune is not quantitatively greater but qualitatively greater than its notes. The tune only 'exists' as a conscious experience. The reductionist reply to this would be to point to the detectable NCCs and state that that this IS the experience.
To understand this we have to go in the opposite direction of reductionism, that is, synthesis where we will find 'wholes' that are qualitatively greater than the sum their parts.
Consciousness and biology are interdependent and co-emergent. Which means...no biology - no consciousness and no consciousness - no biology.
Most will see this as dualistic but they would be mistaken . 2:3, 1:2, 3.1415 : 1 are ratios, and therefore dual. But 0:1 or infinity: 1 are not because there is no-'thing on the left side of the :.
This error or seeming limitation is understandable as we have evolved to operate in a world of 'things'. But the time has come for us to see through this limitation.
Have you read nisargadatta?
@@dare-er7sw hi.
The little I know of his wisdom I totally agree with. We don't need to attain Love/Unity, we just need to let go of the self imposed impediments.
Easier said than done though, but we must be disciplined and continue to wake up.
@@louisstatham1120 I was watching an interview where the man claimed to have horrible memories of the Holocaust. He saw himself thrown off a cliff and shot by the nazis in his past life including his mother and young sister. Now what do you make of such accounts? Why did the soul underwent tragedy in Holocaust and was born again just 9 years later? It's all senseless. In NDEs God told a woman that it's all perfect and there is a plan/purpose and reason for all the evil, pain, and suffering that exists in the world. What? It's all an illusion where the seperate self has gone on s dream like journey bound by karma and causation. It doesn't make any sense. Nisargadatta in his experience of enlightenment saw that there were innumerable universes each with their own gods. This mysterious power, call it God, life, or the self looked after the worlds. He saw himself as the witness only and the absolute reality. He saw that waves of consciousness arising and falling beginlessly and endless on the ocean of the Absolute reality which he was/we are.
@@dare-er7sw Hi Joy
I don't know about that sort of thinking. I have a simple view. It is that we suffer from the illusion that we are separate and finite. We have forgotten that we are the sea and not just a wave. We feel we are just a flower and have forgotten that we are the garden.
We have not understood the wise of the past who said...
The Atman and Brahman are the same.
I and the father are one.
The spokes and the wheel are one. We are still asleep.
@@louisstatham1120 You're right.
fantastic video
This is one of the best episodes of CTT so far. Thanks, Robert.
David Chalmers is the best
I hope in future we will explore consciousness more and have welcoming communities
One thing I'm convinced of... ANIMALS... are way more conscious than we give them credit for!!!
This fact ought to be worked into our morality!!!
Who's with me? 🤗
Who edits the audio of some of these videos? Music is too loud!
The Buddhist concept of consciousness vs. karma is very interesting. Typically karma is described as including past experiences in the present as well as former lives. At it’s simplest, even if only one’s present lifetime is included, consciousness comprises the moment-to-moment experience of reality, with “karma” being the “embodiment” of those experiences into memory,. Consciousness then is both current experience of external reality, or experience of past memories, including our actions and reactions to past situations, including emotional reactions. Karma could also be extended to include our genetic predisposition to react in certain ways - e.g. by “ancestry” and evolution. IMO past “personal” lives do not exist, because personal conscious dies with our brains. On the other hand, our experiences also live on in many ways in the minds of other conscious and reflective “sentient” beings.
The brain is like the cockpit of an airplane and the soul is the pilot. Our soul is our consciousness, just my opinion.
Consciousness is absolutely reducible. It starts off with awareness, then collides with abstract subjectivity and the physical world (space-time) to produce personal experience in thought and action/inaction.
Consciousness is enmeshed with spacetime and physical matter making it the 5th dimension.
Please repost with corrected audio. Thank you!
Knowing, understanding and experiencing of TOTALITY is Consciousness…
Shut up mostafa
@@shadowoffire4307
What do you mean?
@@agar1974 you know what I mean.
@@shadowoffire4307
No, I don’t know what you mean.
❤ Very good 👍🏼
I am reminded of Sri Nisrgadatta Maharaj - Can fire ever know heat? Can water ever know dampness? You cannot know it (consciousness), you can only be it.
Sorry, The brain is like the cockpit of an airplane and the soul is the pilot. Our soul is our consciousness, just my opinion.
Ultimately because we seem to be conscious of something that we don’t know what it is, where it came from, and why not Nothing.
I love David's hair, so unruly and carefree. 🤣👍🏻😆
Recently, I can't hear what's being said between the interviews because the background sound is muffling the voices. Can it be fixed?
"The reality we perceive is the function of the consciousness we are.". Very well said. I have the same conviction, too.Somehow I think all other people don't exist at all. They, including their consciousness are just part of my consciousness. This can be applied to anyone.
Love your videos, but I do have to say that lately, your background audio is turned up enough to drown out Mr Kuhn's voiceover too much. Turn that background audio down more (or the voiceover UP more) please. :-)
Every great puzzle takes time
I’m sure there are scenarios where we could force the answers out (simulations, genetic engineering, etc). My inclination would be towards doing nothing other than observing. It’s kept us going so far.. scientists largest issue will always be their own patience haha
In the following, I'll give a definition of consciousness. Consciousness is what always emerges whenever an autopoietic system (which is the definition of a living organism) exists embedded in an environment that provides the resources for that autopoietic system to continue to exist (the latter being the definition of life). Consciousness is the result of a complexity reduction (of the arbitrary complex environment) that the autopoietic system generates by interacting with and filtering the environment using its internal processes. In other words, consciousness is a simplified reproduction/simulation of the arbitrary complex environment/reality (that includes the autopoietic system itself), simplified in a sense that the simulation only contains those aspects of the environment/reality that are relevant for the survival of the autopoietic system. In this sense, any autopoietic system of any size or complexity has consciousness, be it a biological cell, a society, an anthill, an ant, a brain, or a Bénard cell. There you have it, this is the definition of consciousness.
Ask why for every system or science that you just stated and it will break down to the unknown… it’s an uncomfortable truth but you trying to make sense of what consciousness is is hilarious. Just like using is twice in a row.
You always have to generalize and make sense of a generality to come to your “truth” of what it is… why can’t it just be without science
The brain is like the cockpit of an airplane and the soul is the pilot. Our soul is our consciousness, just my opinion.
Loving these insights but please can the audio be one consistent level right through.
I don't know what conciousness is but there is some real truth that we don't know.
Closer to truth but further from a good audio mix
@ Daniel Dennett : CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED ? ! WOW . . . . .
PLEASE EXPLAIN IT TO ME, DANIEL. I Have Been Wanting To Know Since I Was 7 Years Young In MINEO / SICILY / ITALY.
I Am Now 77 Years OLD In Melbourne / Australia. Thank You, Daniel. I Can't Hardly Wait To Hear From You.
Another great one. What is the Celtic sounding soundtrack at the end around 24:40? Beautiful!
Is consciousness immortal?
It seems like consciousness is immortal, but that doesn't make it so. Since we can't see consciousness and it doesn't feel like it's attached to the physical body, we like to imagine that it will never die and enjoy the comfort in that.
You becoming up date, it took exacly 2 decay boosting intelligence and bring intense feeling= love 😎
👉📣 Consciousness driving us in the days at it's will and treating our souls in the same manner when we sleep = Closer to the Truth 🤔
The brain is like the cockpit of an airplane and the soul is the pilot. Our soul is our consciousness, just my opinion.
@@jeffforsythe9514 I think so too
Consciousness is no more mysterious than any other brute fact. In other words, it is deeply mysterious.
Brute fact? Consciousness is your soul when you are awake, that's all folks.
I think each one of these people he interviews make great points. Chalmers puts it most succinctly philosophically; his zombie conjecture underscores the epistemic. As an engineer I can better see where they all miss it.
The philosophical zombie is not imaginable in the way charmers wants to use it. If all of the system is present in a zombie that is identically in you or me then there is no way to assume that a zombie is at all possible. Consciousness is reducible and Dennett has the most plausible argument.
Mr. Kuhn, I am enjoying these videos very much. May I make a production suggestion? Pay more attention to the audio quality, as many CZcamsrs say it is even more important than the video. E.g. 0:40 the bell seems to be as loud the word 'commonplace', which means your background music is too loud.
I just wonder if you realise that the music is too loud sometimes, and I can't hear the presenters voice?
It's been a conundrum for nearly a century, but only for materialists who insist that metaphysics is a quaint way of looking at things. Eben Alexander, MD survived an attack by bacteria on his brain, putting him in a coma for a week, providing this trained scientist with his own experience of life after death. On recovery he sat in on the medical discussion about what had happened to him in which he could analyze the consciousness he had experienced in view of what medical science understands. All explanations required a functioning brain, especially a neocortex, which, in his case was being eaten by microbes. He wrote "Proof of Heaven" to share what he had learned from his Near-Death Experience. "I understood how blind to the full nature of the spiritual universe...I had been, who had believed that matter was the core reality. p. 57. I explored this revelation in "Surviving the Micronova."
conscioness is everything , all reality is informational .
The background music should be kept at a lower level, it interferes with what Kuhn is saying.
Please lower the music volume so you can hear you.
@ Lawrence Kuhn : When It Comes To NEUROSCIENCE MATTERS, John Searle Is My Hero. I Place Him ABOVE ALL OTHERS, Including Baroness Susan Greenfield.
tom di-grazia / Doncaster / Melbourne / Australia.
Light(Electromagnetic waves) is consciousness.
Light(Electricity,Electromagnetic) is fundamental.
Unlike in Mainland China, In USA all religions flourish to the ultimate point. These clerics from different faiths come up with interesting n illuminating explanations to the questions on what consciousness is in their faiths.
but very informative video
What if we've got the dimensions wrong and the 1st dimension is consciousness(awareness, abstract subjectivity, free will all interacting with the physical world) the 2nd is a dot, the 3rd is a line, the 4th is a depth/volume, the 5th is space-time and they are all relative to each other?
All this before freewill as been finaly given😎
@RobertKuhn just curious if you could find some answers from South Indian Vedic astrology. It has such great predictive power and accuracy that would make you rethink some of these assumptions about the physical world
The music is louder than the voice!
The 1st thing one needs to ask is why so many have a need for consciousness to be something beyond the realm of biological processes in the brain. What is the need fulfilled by this kind of thinking? We can see, in all of Kuhn's episodes, his personal need to believe, believe in a god, believe in some mysterious force we call consciousness as a prime motivator & actor, he's not shy about admitting that. What we missed here is the perspective of how human neuropsychology might generate this need for an entirely understandable & natural reason, ie survival. In this piece, that scientific perspective was not explored. Presuming anything beyond a biologically generate 'consciousness' may well be pure illusion created by a nature driven need. We presumed gods in human antiquity to answer questions we had no answers for, especially those that caused us to fear & tremble. We now desire to presume a universal consciousness to satisfy our need to some how cheat death, to be us forever, for our selves to survive physical death. In all the questions we've answered since we 1st invented gods there has been nothing to suggest there is anything beyond life simply being life and the human species would be better served to get that through their thick heads. Being here now is all we need to focus on.
You are saying that counsciousness is created by the brain in a inexplicable process, than you ask that same counsciousness why is the way it is,...I see a flaw in your reasoning.
The brain is like the cockpit of an airplane and the soul is the pilot. Our soul is our consciousness, just my opinion.
Please next time lower the volume on the background music and voices and raise the volume of the narrator so it is easier to hear and understand without distracting noise.
Susanne Blackmore is very ignorant to both consciousness and materialism, yet wants to speak about it so loudly. She has proven to be nihilistic in many ways, sending her much love.
Is there a way to measure how time effects the brain? Some things people say about consciousness sounds like could have to do with time
Here is a video posted by a young British former Christian, who stated in the video interview this "something was eating me inside" he was talking about his own consciousness which happened after watching a few Islamic videos on youtube.
Prior to watching Islamic video he wanted to end his life due to depression. czcams.com/video/fzXU2_dJxZ4/video.html
Here is another video posted by a popular youtuber, an American who stated in this video, his conscience was bothering him, just to shut up his own conscience, he decided to read the Quran.
czcams.com/video/_DF_i_KkFvE/video.html
Quantum tubular engrams overlapping through time give rises to timeless consciousness, me entrails.
The Flow Experience is worth learning about:
"The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost," Csíkszentmihályi said in an interview with Wired magazine.
The brain is like the cockpit of an airplane and the soul is the pilot. Our soul is our consciousness, just my opinion.
Possibly a new digital editor who accidently made the background sound effects more dominant than the narrator's voice and hasnt had time to do a fix before upload time :D
The background music is louder than the narrative throughout the video, can you please fix the audio and upload the corrected video? Thanks!
Mystery (i.e., undecidability) forms the “transformational structure” of the universe.
Maybe consciousness as we experience it is a material, smoothing-out function in the brain that makes our sense perceptions seem continuous and fills in the gaps when there are some (like optical illusions). The interruptions we could "experience" would be anesthesia, coma, and to a lesser extent , sleep disorders. Also the realm of severe mental illness where a medication or electric shock can in some cases provide immediate reversal.
It Would be nice if the audio could be redone. Cc couldn't even catch everything that was said because it's so quiet
Check out Thomas Campbell's MBT and the Larger Consciousness System at the CENTER of it all.
The whole part is we all are rejecting the Supreme God who made this conciousness. How could someone know God, when we all don't know who we are? Where we were before we were born?
Reincarnation.
The elephant in the room appears to me to be the absence of an interview with Dr. Bernardo Kastrup PhD, PhD, and/or Rupert Spira on the nature of consciousness and the cul-de-sac that is materialism.
Make counciousness in the lab and lots of these questions will be answered !! In my opinion !!
Lawrence must be virtually constantly on a plane.
I think the problem is that we look for consciousness in one place as if we can point and say ' There it is ' but i don't think that's the case.
Now i'm not saying that i believe that it's something magical or outside of the mind because i simply don't see that as something possible or that makes sense from an evolutionary point of view.
If i think about myself, my thoughts what do i think and feel?
I can see things, describe them, my hands can feel them.
I can hear things around me, the wind, people talking etc.
I also have feelings within which i know is chemical in nature but also interpreted in the brain.
These things happen in a very short amount of time and we can only consciously focus on one at a time, one after another.
I wonder if because of the speed of such things and the feelings that connect to those moments, if we maybe view it as a single thing that we call consciousness rather than it being many different things, including but not limited to, feelings, emotions, chemical interactions etc.
I guess you could say that consciousness is what's left after the brain has filtered out our senses so that we aren't overloaded with information.
We know the brain filters much of the information it receives every second of every day and what's left is what we perceive as consciousness,
No offense, but you had an awful lot of "I's" in there. If you look at yourself from the outside, everything looks very different.
This is what you do. While thinking about consciousness you always reach the same wayside cross. There you always chose the same path. After ending lost somewhere deeply in the woods you return to your starting point and repeat. Like it's groundhog day. As long as you always think about the brain you will never be able to ... "get closer to truth".
In a way the question is wilfully dense. How can we NOT have a consciousness? Why would we care about anything, how could we act? A kitten couldn't learn by imitating its mother if it didn't understand itself and the mother as sovereign beings. Our experience is complicated by language. After all our earlier, very strenuous, efforts to hear and speak abstract language, we have lost our original consciousness and live in our "personal narrative". We only notice something once we have "told ourselves about it" . Deep learning of skills and "genius" consists of growing new "brain circuits" that operate independently of our narartive selves.
Please turn the volume down on the music and VT’s and turn the voiceover volume up, thank you. Great content otherwise 👍😊
Topic is interesting but background music is some time too loud than commentary.
Music louder than speech which is annoying in such an interesting topic. My consciousness requires lots of attention and focus to understand the minute details explained in the talk...😁🥺
Could not hear Robert’s summation because of sound problems.
Without a soul we are nothing.
Beat channel on CZcams
Cosciousness is fundamental. There is nothing but consciousness.
It has no beginning. But we are creatures within Time and Space and can't even imagine that which is outside time and space.
It ( Consciousness ) created Space/Time, the way we create a world of characters and a multitude of events each night we dream.
You don't have to believe the above. Beliefs are a dime a dozen. But you can experience this and know this within Oneself, because, after all, you are this Consciousness.
Woo woo. PERIOD!. And you know this how? Who gave you this insight, this knowledge? Let me guess. Deepak Chopra.
@@Ascendlocal The insight came from Awareness itself.
I have never read anything of Deepak Chopra.
I am well aware that what I said may sound like '' woo woo"...
But, nevertheless, it was my experience. It came to me that everything which happens happens to Me. That there is only Me, One Being or Essence or Awareness being and experiencing everything. That all is Me...
I don't mean me. You also could say, everything which happens is being experienced by ME, and be telling the truth. What I experienced was Reality, and I know this because it was a million times more real than my normal reality.
But none of this matters....just dismiss me as being insane if you like.
Why do we look to breaking open the skull to find consciousness? Do we break open the earth to find dark matter? No. Consciousness may be outside us. In my view, it is as another dimension; the dimension of consciousness. And like dimensions of string theory or the conscious interference that moves, for some, in quantum double-split experiments, we just don’t understand this dimension yet. But that doesn’t mean it may not be one.
Why we break open the skull to examine consciousness? Because if someone breaks open our skull we nearly always lose consciousness. Perhaps a clue right there.
@@JaKommenterar Fair point but so does breaking open the heart. And anyway, do we "lose" consciousness or does it merely go somewhere else? And what clue would that direct us to?
@@David-my3uu Our level of consciousness does not tend to alter by heart conditions (unless the person dies or the injury damages the brain). But significant brain damage can can alter your consciousness long term, a prime example being those who are brain dead. In fact, you can live biologically with life support, but you won’t have consciousness if your brain has no activity.
Because consciousness is directly related to various brain-states. Because it isn't an exact science, due to being such a complex phenomena, causes many people to argue the god of the gaps argument. It's a narcissistic idea to invent a "spirit"... with no evidence... that allows you to transcend your body.
Consciousness Agent is an unseen entity.
narration volume low compared to interviews. need to adjust volume throughout the video to hear everything. please fix
Consciousness seems to operate on the level of quantum mechanics. Modern research on Near Death Experience by Raymond moody, reincarnation memories by Ian Stevenson/Jim trucker and past lives regression by Brian Weiss all independently but coincidentally show that our consciousness survive death, we live many lives and our thoughts and actions matter in the hereafter.
So be kind and helpful to others, be virtuous, meditate and cultivate ourselves to higher spiritual levels. Cheers.
recently the sound is awful on the recent uploads of Closer to Truth. it is hard to concentrate...
If consciousness is an illusion, then what is judicial responsibility? Ahriman is the producer of this show !
Consciousness is like a cd 💿 , or the old time records discs , CAnt see the musics 🎼 🎵 but they’re there . We’re not man made , which is why those things are complicated to us .