Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.927

   > consciousness here I think it's there are very few areas in science where the accepted explanation is totally a brute fact which just has to be accepted because it is the only explanation that

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2. 02 · _intake0.803

   - **9** [never/must/causes/because] · `00:58:14.799` [Iain McGilchrist ~ Active Inference Insights 023 ~ Hemispher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKVZykutOD0&t=3494) > that needs to be held as distinct from an ontological premise that the brain causes Consciousness so it might be I never know this I can never prove it because of David Charmers and Nagle and - **8** [must/because/only] · `00:28:45.179` [Sam Harris 2018 - Our Perception As A Controlled Hallucinati](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDKLt5MA5M4&t=1725) > consciousness here I think it's there are very few areas in science where th…

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3. 03 · yt0.802

   hello yes I should explain the title here I'm claiming that we need new physics to understand consciousness now well I mean new physics here I mean something outside the physics we know but it's not simply invented for the purpose of explaining consciousness it's something which I think we need anyway for quite other reasons and I'll come to that as part of the talk first of all there are various views about what's consciousness what comes what is the basis of consciousness and the current view is this basically well the brain operates according to a computer and many people believe this and c…

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4. 04 · yt0.799

   If you're going to theory of consciousness which just is comp- computation, it's a bit hard to see how it's going to explain how you can prove um Fermat's Last Theorem if it requires all these levels of depth of of logic. It's It's so I'm I'm trying to kind of parse the steps in the in the argument. You know, given Gödel's theorem to be absolute that establishes mathematics cannot be a a a complete system in itself, and that mathematicians have to understand that with through their consciousness. Not sure what the step then is to go to where a brain operating under a computational functionalis…

   yt/vC4HNcqTQXk-roger-penrose-on-mind-consciousness-closer-to-truth-chats/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.798

   You say, "Many philosophers and scientists believed and still believe that sentience serves no purpose, no physical purpose." Throughout the book, you persuade us of the plausibility of an alternative interpretation. And you suggest that feelings, as I mentioned, are part of nature, that they are not fundamentally different from other natural phenomena, and that they do something within the causal matrix of things. Consciousness Consciousness, you determine and you demonstrate is about feeling and feeling in turn is about how well or badly we are doing in life. Almost like a compass to try and…

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6. 06 · yt0.796

   Um but it's you know it is I think a comfortable um accommodation of things that we you know presume um or things that people have brought to the table in order to explain consciousness you know from from their direction of theorizing. It seems that um if you if we kind of split let's say the um the camps or the the the the thought the groups of thought about this there's um almost all of what you just talked about now are there is a minimal complexity required for there to be consciousness and then we can we can talk about what the what that level is. Well, it requires this or this or this. B…

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7. 07 · pubmed0.795

   Consciousness is often seen as requiring a special kind of explanation. But the various aspects of self-awareness can presumably emerge when certain levels of complexity are reached in an organism: it is not necessary to assume additional mechanisms or hidden causes. Looking at the most fundamental level, that of elementary particle physics, three principles appear--the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality--which are in themselves emergent properties of the fundament…

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8. 08 · yt0.794

   There has to be something  else, a life force, [inaudible 00:09:37] there has   to be something that injects the currents  of life into this collection of particles   to make it come alive. Almost nobody says  that any longer because as we've understood   the biochemistry of the underlying processes for  life, we've become comfortable with, "Yeah, it's   just a lot of coordinated complexity, and when  it comes together the right way, life emerges." We haven't done that in a lab, right? We haven't done in a lab yet, so you're abso…

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9. 09 · yt0.793

   So, and but then in popular culture, we all see the thought experiment as saying that the cat literally is dead and alive, and that that is the implication of quantum theory, and that has been popularized by the self appointed spokespeople of science, usually people who don't do in science just talk about it. Yeah, that's the cat is alive and dead or that particles are both waves and particles. Oh no, no, no, forget about, about all this. These statements go too far. the data doesn't allow us to make these statements. We have to be more cautious. But in any case, what we do know is that every …

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10. 10 · _intake0.791

    Let's pass over all that. Consciousness being the one thing that is self-evident that >> it is it is the one thing that is - **7** [always/only] · `00:01:16.680` [The Neuroscience of Consciousness - Anil Seth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz5b4dPhzIQ&t=76) > third mystery is the mystery of our inner universe and that's the mystery of consciousness now consciousness for me is always been absolutely fascinating it's the one thing that cannot be an - **7** [always/only] · `00:01:20.640` [The Neuroscience of Consciousness - Anil Seth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz5b4dPhzIQ&t=80) > in…

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