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 · _intake0.931

   > is always interacting with consciousness. But whatever I pick up a rock, I'm interacting with consciousness. But my interface has to give up at some point because it is a

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/consciousness/008-is-always-interacting-with-consciousness.md

2. 02 · _intake0.766

   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 · gutenberg0.750

   Consciousness tends to the personal form. It is in constant change. It is sensibly continuous. 'Substantive' and 'transitive' parts of Consciousness. Feelings of relation. Feelings of tendency. The 'fringe' of the object. The feeling of rational sequence. Thought possible in any kind of mental material. Thought and language. Consciousness is cognitive. The word Object. Every cognition is due to one integral pulse of thought. Diagrams of Thought's stream. Thought is always selective.

   gutenberg/PG-57628-the-principles-of-psychology-volume-1-of-2/PG-57628.txt

4. 04 · blog0.744

   However, for some (Siewert 1998, 2010) recognizing nothing but access or monitoring in the manner of such theories amounts to denying the reality of phenomenal consciousness. These are evidently not just disputes about words; they concern what there is to talk about. For the purposes of this survey we will assume there is a reasonable interpretation of the remarks in the first three paragraphs of this section under which they pick out something real for us to call “consciousness”, even if this term may be legitimately interpreted in other ways. But we should acknowledge it is open to question …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/consciousness-and-intentionality.md

5. 05 · yt0.742

   And there are basically three approaches that people can be using when they talk about consciousness. The first one is about this experience of what it's like which we call phenomenology. And there are several aspects to the terminology of consciousness for me that uh in the way in which I use the word refer to what this what it's likeness and the first one is consciousness is always happening now in this moment. And it also seems to be what creates the sense of nowness. So this what characterizes now is what's currently the case in my perception. And then there is um a beyond this present als…

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

6. 06 · yt0.729

   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

7. 07 · yt0.727

   And it those encounters take place in consciousness. Now Now my view of consciousness is that it is the ultimately ontological primitive. You cannot get behind it. Nothing can have given rise to consciousness. I mean people have been trying for 100 years to find a way in which they can get consciousness out of the brain or out of matter. And nobody has got the slightest bit near to a workable plausible idea of how that could happen. So I'm convinced that um consciousness is the is the primary thing. Matter we've never seen. Nobody has ever seen matter. All they've seen in their consciousness a…

   yt/Kclh9hSs8d0-iain-mcgilchrist-on-what-truly-matters/transcript.txt

8. 08 · blog0.726

   Mind is vital , investigating problems and inventing tools, aims, and ideals. Mind bridges past and future, an “agency of novel reconstruction of a pre- existing order” ( EN , LW1: 168). Consciousness Like mind, consciousness is also activity—the brisk transitioning of felt, qualitative events. Profoundly influenced by James’s metaphor of consciousness as a constantly moving “stream of thought” ( FAE , LW5: 157), Dewey did not conclude that an account of consciousness could be adequately captured in words. Talk about consciousness is always elliptical—it is “vivid” or “conspicuous” or “dull”—a…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/john-dewey.md

9. 09 · blog0.724

   So we can’t assimilate the use of the word “I” to other more tractable types of referring expressions. Second, she argues that the only remaining possibility is that the word “I” refers to an immaterial substance (a Cartesian ego), or at least a stretch of such a substance that exists so long as one is thinking a thought. But that would still leave us no way to identify the same referent in different “I”-thoughts at different times, an “intolerable” result. Moreover, Anscombe explicitly denied that there are immaterial substances. She described the very conception of an immaterial substance as…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/gertrude-elizabeth-margaret-anscombe.md

10. 10 · _intake0.723

    So I have assumed consciousness is a quantum ability more present in reality than we assume it really is. Consciousness, rather than being something that we contain, maybe something we participate in via the interactions of atoms and light in our cells.

    _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/reality-9-consciousness-mother-earth.md