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 · _intake0.930

   > do that it has to convince people that Consciousness doesn't exist that it's some kind of Illusion which backfires because an illusion is already an instance of Consciousness but but never

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/consciousness/007-do-that-it-has-to-convince-people-that-consciousness-doesn-t.md

2. 02 · _intake0.881

   Understanding](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Oguwg7omc&t=4793) > do that it has to convince people that Consciousness doesn't exist that it's some kind of Illusion which backfires because an illusion is already an instance of Consciousness but but never - **7** [never/must/because] · `01:19:55.860` [Are We Dissociated Alters Of A Universal Mind? Understanding](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Oguwg7omc&t=4795) > Consciousness doesn't exist that it's some kind of Illusion which backfires because an illusion is already an instance of Consciousness but but never mind so for it to be relevant…

   _intake/claims-allbranch/BY-CONCEPT.md

3. 03 · _intake0.807

   - **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…

   _intake/claims-allbranch/BY-CONCEPT.md

4. 04 · blog0.802

   Or do they have in mind a purely phenomenal kind of appearing? The skeptical proposals (that the skeptic adheres to the plausible, the convincing, or to appearances) have in common their appeal to something less than full-fledged belief about how things are, while allowing something sufficient to generate and guide action. However, the claim that ancient skepticism is about belief, while modern skepticism is about knowledge, needs to be qualified. Ancient skepticism is not alone in being concerned with belief. Descartes speaks repeatedly of demolishing his opinions (for example, Med 2:12, AT 7…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/ancient-skepticism.md

5. 05 · _intake0.801

   > in something. Uh you can't have just an illusion without consciousness. It's utterly incoherent. But never mind. Let's pass over all that. Consciousness being the one thing that is self-evident

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/consciousness/009-in-something.md

6. 06 · yt0.799

   Then there's illusionism which says that conscious doesn't actually exist and we only need to explain why people some people claim to have it. Then as panschism which says that conscious is basically in everything and it somehow can be explained just by being an intrinsic property of matter and just correlates in the organisms and expresses itself. Then there's the idea that consciousness is primary and the physical world is just a figment of the imagination of consciousness. And then there are ideas that say oh we need completely new physics to understand consciousness somehow. But there are …

   yt/oR-BQTSpL5U-joscha-bach-the-operation-of-consciousness-agi-25/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.799

   Well, you see, I think it's not I mean, that is an interesting question, because it doesn't seem to me necessary that consciousness is causal in some sense I can imagine somebody being paralyzed completely. I get this happens. People are completely paralyzed and nobody can tell whether that person is actually conscious or not. And later on, you find that person may wake up at some sense and you find they were conscious all the time. They knew what was going on. It's just they couldn’t influence anything in some sense this notion of being. We have a free will in the sense of affecting things is…

   yt/0nOtLj8UYCw-quantum-consciousness-debate-does-the-wave-function-actually/transcript.txt

8. 08 · blog0.794

   And at this stage of the Meditations , Descartes thinks that it does: “there are never any sure signs by means of which being awake can be distinguished from being asleep” (Med. 1, AT 7:19, CSM 2:13). The Now Dreaming Doubt generates widespread sceptical consequences. For if I do not perfectly know that I am now awake, then neither do I know that I’m now “holding this piece of paper in my hands,” to cite an example the First Meditation meditator had supposed to be “quite impossible” to doubt. Reflection on the sceptical doubt changes his mind, and he comes around to the view that, for all he k…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/descartes-epistemology.md

9. 09 · yt0.790

   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…

   yt/JRlS5EY1-zc-mark-solms-the-hidden-spring-part-1-of-9/transcript.txt

10. 10 · gutenberg0.788

    Therefore, for a person to say that he has a clear and distinct--that is, a true--idea of a substance, but that he is not sure whether such substance exists, would be the same as if he said that he had a true idea, but was not sure whether or no it was false (a little consideration will make this plain); or if anyone affirmed that substance is created, it would be the same as saying that a false idea was true--in short, the height of absurdity. It must, then, necessarily be admitted that the existence of substance as its essence is an eternal truth. And we can hence conclude by another process…

    gutenberg/PG-3800-ethics/PG-3800.txt