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 · _intake0.911

   > 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

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2. 02 · _intake0.781

   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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3. 03 · yt0.766

   [Music] pleasure to be here again it's been a couple of years start with it's two two out of the three mysteries about our place in the universe have already been sold when the first is literally about our place in universe we're not at its center Copernicus showed us hundreds of years ago that we are rotating around the Sun and now we know that we're somewhere a speck in the abyss somewhere and the Western spiral arm of one galaxy among God knows how many and then Darwin came along of course in the 19th century and revealed that we are not so special among all other animals either we are rela…

   yt/cCyapf0E5ns-consciousness-neuroscience-perception-and-hallucination-prof/transcript.txt

4. 04 · yt0.758

   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…

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5. 05 · yt0.754

   What that configuration looks like when observed from the outside from across a dissociative boundary. is a human brain. Yeah. A human brain is what metacognition looks like as observed from across a dissociative boundary. Yeah. And that's why the two come hand-in-hand. One is the image of the other. One is not the means or the generator or the origin of the other one is simply what the other looks like. Check Yeah, I get this. So that. But then, that's the only form of meta cognition we know of from a first person perspective. Like we, we experience metacognition, either feeling a sense of ho…

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6. 06 · yt0.750

   I have 20 minutes in order to explain to you 35 years of research and 2,000 pages. Um, so I'm going to do my best. And it's about the brain. Isn't that exciting? Yes, it is. The brain. You may say, I don't mind about what's going on in my brain as long as I keep thinking, as long as my consciousness works. But your consciousness and your brain have an interesting relationship. But it is not one that is reductive. It's not that the consciousness can be reduced to the action of the brain. It's that very clearly when things go wrong with your brain, they change who you are and how you think and h…

   yt/FOsX666lCPk-how-left-brain-thinking-is-killing-civilization-dr-iain-mcgi/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.749

   two of the three fundamental mysteries about our place in the universe have already been solved the first was literally about our place in the universe this is a photograph taken by Voyager 1 on its journey out of the solar system from a distance of about I think six billion kilometers and all of human history in fact all of the history of life on this planet took place on that pale blue dot that's the famous pale blue dot photo that's the Earth from far away now this just emphasizes the point that we've known since Copernicus that we are not at the center of the universe we're just a tiny spe…

   yt/Rz5b4dPhzIQ-the-neuroscience-of-consciousness-anil-seth/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.747

   So at least in Alex's case, atoms and fields, all the physical stuff is what Alex's numinal world, Alex's inner life looks like when Alex is observed from the outside. At least in that one case, matter is the extrinsic appearance of inner mentation, inner mental state. That's why there is this correlation between inner experience and brain states, right? and one is the appearance of the other. Of course, they correlate. Um, so unless you're prepared to postulate some gratuitous completely arbitrary discontinuiting nature, we have then to at least be open to the possibility that not only in Ale…

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

9. 09 · yt0.747

   Why do we have the experience of being conscious? Can you build consciousness just by putting together lots of neurons in the right way? Or might there be deeper principles at work? Could quantum physics have something to do with the brain and specifically with consciousness? Is it possible that consciousness is actually something that predates biology and there's a sense in which biology evolved to take advantage of it? And what are the right ways to make new theories in neuroscience when we don't know the answers? Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman. I'm a neuroscientist and auth…

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10. 10 · yt0.744

    But just for the materialist as well, like there is some sense in which I just am this collection of atoms. You know, I just am the collection of atoms that's in my brain and my body. And it sounds like you want to say that's kind of true, but in the opposite direction where like the materialist says you have a bunch of matter and that just somehow is the same thing as this conscious experience. If I'm hearing you correctly, you're saying you are just this conscious experience. you are just this like mentality. It's just that if you look at that from the outside, it just looks like a brain. It…

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