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 · yt0.806

   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

2. 02 · yt0.801

   So, I won't go into it now, but I'll just as say that for reasons that we will have time to unpack, I came to the conclusion that the the most fundamental form of consciousness is feeling. And by feeling, uh I mean things like um being hungry uh or or or or being in pain um or being sleepy uh or feeling too hot, you know, the the those very very rudimentary bodily states uh which alert you to the fact, you know, that's that's something's the matter. Something's you know, you're heading in the wrong direction. Um if if you feel pain, you know, something something is injuring you. You you must d…

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

3. 03 · yt0.795

   When I take that basic cognitive framework, which is this very dynamic, bottom-up, top-down way in which outside and grounding propositionality, which intelligibility is co-created with the world, I come to the conclusion that either that bottom-up, top-down dynamism is has nothing to do with ontological structure, in case in which in which case if there is no way in which that fundamental grammar of intelligibility creation touches the structure of ontology, then we're doomed to skepticism and solipsism. And so I propose that it's more likely, as the Neoplatonic tradition held, that reality i…

   yt/QvLSkzes_II-convergence-to-neoplatonism-w-wolfgang-smith/transcript.txt

4. 04 · yt0.792

   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

5. 05 · yt0.791

   Now I think in defense of pansychism it would not just be the table but everything being conscious but your argument basically means that that consciousness is kind of an epiphenomenon. It doesn't seem to have much causal power except but of course it has causal power in our kind of beings. It makes certain kinds of people to create conferences about consciousness or talk about it which is interesting because there is an infinite number of properties that we don't have that we don't talk about. So even if you argued that yeah actually zombie philosophers would be having consciousness studies i…

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6. 06 · yt0.791

   And now I have a full blown theory of consciousness in free will that. Explain the conscious and free will cannot be. Produced either by a quantum classical system like our body and, and even less by a classical, a classical computer like the ones that the host artificial intelligence. And so is fundamental that we understand that we are much more than computers in a day when we are told that we are machines, just like computers. In fact, not so good because computers will, you know, will overcome our intelligence pretty soon if they haven't done it already. So, I, you know, now I'm really on …

   yt/w6cBQESNDV0-federico-faggin-merging-science-spirituality-quantum-physics/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.790

   Again, because my view is that consciousness is  local, that it's something that brains create,   my view is when a brain is more sophisticated, if  we don't rely on human exceptionalism, but just   sort of look at our own brains, then it creates  the kind of consciousness that you and I are aware   of. When a brain hasn't reached that level of  complexity, it has some version of consciousness,   but perhaps different from the experiences that we  have. But fundamentally, it's just stuff moving in   a coordinated manner…

   yt/qFuYUSWwn7s-when-physics-meets-fiction-brian-greene-dan-brown-world-scie/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.790

   And the claim is that Einstein's general theory of relativity, when appropriately combined with quantum mechanics, will do that for you. Which is the other way. It's gravitizing quantum mechanics rather than quantizing gravity. So is it true that you wouldn't have consciousness in Minkowski space? I mean, would it be impossible without gravitational force? I mean, obviously, you'd have matter, you'd have a brain, you'd have some gravitating but is it is it impossible then to have consciousness in a in a region that's either perfectly flat, has no matter, or is otherwise free from perturbations…

   yt/OoDi856wLPM-sir-roger-penrose-stuart-hameroff-collapsing-a-theory-of-qua/transcript.txt

9. 09 · _intake0.787

   - **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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10. 10 · yt0.785

    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…

    yt/xGbgDf4HCHU-sir-roger-penrose-dr-stuart-hameroff-consciousness-and-the-p/transcript.txt