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 · _intake0.942

   > 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

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2. 02 · yt0.821

   Consciousness is the capacity of one the totality of what exists to know itself. So is the capacity to know by self-reflection. But the interesting thing in the way I look at this is that when one wants to know itself and in fact we need to start with a partulate because otherwise we we run around this thing and we never we never get to it. So the partul that I'm using is one is one is the totality of what exists what potentially can exist and what actually exists. And I make a clear distinction because because you cannot get something from nothing. You know many many many theories of reality …

   yt/d6NHRB5V1eE-top-physicist-science-spirituality-merge-in-this-new-theory-/transcript.txt

3. 03 · _intake0.818

   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…

   _intake/claims-allbranch/BY-CONCEPT.md

4. 04 · yt0.814

   When the body is gone and consciousness is no longer tethered to a narrow stream of data, maybe you don't go anywhere because maybe you were never really in the body to begin with. There's a moment, instant, silent, and complete, when consciousness becomes aware of itself. Not just aware of the world around it or of a body moving through space, but of its own existence. That moment isn't gradual. It doesn't build, flashes. And in that flash, something extraordinary happens. The creation of a self. The moment that one knows itself, he has to know completely itself because it's not made of parts…

   yt/usDVuyx0Myc-they-will-break-your-understanding-of-everything/transcript.txt

5. 05 · blog0.813

   But the mind taking no notice of itself, is deluded to think it can and doth conceive bodies existing unthought of or without the mind; though at the same time they are apprehended by or exist in it self. (PHK 22–23) The argument seems intended to establish that we cannot actually conceive of mind-independent objects, that is, objects existing unperceived and unthought of. Why not? Simply because in order to conceive of any such things, we must ourselves be conceiving, i.e., thinking, of them. However, as Pitcher (1977, 113) nicely observes, such an argument seems to conflate the representatio…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/george-berkeley.md

6. 06 · _intake0.810

   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

7. 07 · yt0.802

   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 · yt0.798

   objective reality out there are you comfortable with that absolutely all life is conscious even bacteria anarchia are are conscious how can we know that the Mind At Large really exist the game of metaphysics is the game of coming out with the best hypothesis we can it's not about proof even in science there is no proof there is only falsification in foundations of physics people get very very confused today because measurements show that physical entities only exist after you measure them and we get confused and then we spend huge amounts of money trying to reconcile that with physicalism nons…

   yt/FcaV3EEmR9k-is-consciousness-the-final-reality-questioning-the-material-/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.792

   I'm not denying what appears to perception and measurement as matter as atoms. These things are empirically verified. We can measure this stuff. There is something out there that goes by the name of atom and metal and aluminium and so forth. None of that is denied. I'm not denying that there is an external world beyond my mind. What I'm saying is that these external world beyond my mind just like my mind is also made of mental states. And just as my mental states appear to you as matter, my brain, the atoms of my body, you know, the very measurable, very physical stuff. So the mental states th…

   yt/DrMEL20o5KE-why-materialism-is-complete-nonsense-bernardo-kastrup/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.792

    Uh, but that world too is just just like me is made of mental states. And when there is a perceiver, those mental states appear to the perceiver according to the qualities that we describe as physicality like extension, texture, temperature, weight, and so forth. So what's wrong with saying that? Okay, I agree that there's a world outside of my own mental, you know, perceptions, but that world is just a physical world, and all there is is physicality. things like mass, charge, extension, texture, those kinds of things. If you just add those up together, you get a complete description of everyt…

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