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 · yt0.821

   It's not even a thing. It's that within which experiences arise. For this one comes from Sarah's first, * Username* Bernardo, I love your work and your theory. I have a question, though you have argued that consciousness does not depend on matter or bodies or brains by in part, reciting numerous studies that show cognition and consciousness are not always correlated to brain or activity. So, consciousness cognition doesn't need a brain, right? Brains are just what show up on our dashboards. We discuss that extensively. So why then, do you posit that metacognition is dependent on brains, specif…

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2. 02 · yt0.819

   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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3. 03 · yt0.819

   Um, and so if you believe this, then you can basically see the causal process of everything that is consciousness as being something that can be described by physics. And it's a generalization. You know, some might claim, oh, we don't we don't understand the physics of consciousnesses yet. But the frame is that once we do understand it, we can use our model of how physics is operating in order to create an accurate simulation or replica which will be computational. Do you think that software exists? Uh yeah, in the naive sense of exists and software but it's not physical matter, right? It's it…

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4. 04 · yt0.819

   It's just a disconnection like a drone going dark while the operator remains intact, simply shifting awareness back to its original source. And when that drone goes offline, when the body dies, consciousness doesn't disappear. It simply loses its local connection. This isn't just speculation. Thousands of near-death experiences around the world describe the same thing. Separation from the body, awareness of surroundings, and a shift into something vaster, more peaceful, more real than anything physical. People report seeing their own surgery from above. They recount conversations that occurred…

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5. 05 · _intake0.818

   > 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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6. 06 · pubmed0.816

   Merker, Williford, and Rudrauf make several arguments against the integrated information theory of consciousness; whereas some have merit, their conclusion that the theory should be discarded is premature. Coming years promise advances in the empirical study of consciousness, and only after theories are independently tested with shared data can they be ruled in or out. We propose future research directions.

   pubmed/PMID-35319418-a-call-for-comparing-theories-of-consciousness-and-data-shar/info.md

7. 07 · yt0.815

   And that's what we're going to explore today. I'm not presenting an argument that quantum mechanics does explain consciousness, but it's worth understanding why some serious minds are entertaining the hypothesis. So we'll begin with Roger Penrose who is perhaps an unexpected figure in this conversation because he's not a neuroscientist. He's a mathematical physicist. He's done so many amazing things in his career. He worked with Stephven Hawking on black hole singularities or you might know him for his geometrical shapes called Penrose tiles. And you certainly know him because in 2020 he won t…

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8. 08 · yt0.815

   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…

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9. 09 · yt0.813

   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…

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10. 10 · pubmed0.812

    Consciousness poses two main problems. The first is understanding the conditions that determine to what extent a system has conscious experience. For instance, why is our consciousness generated by certain parts of our brain, such as the thalamocortical system, and not by other parts, such as the cerebellum? And why are we conscious during wakefulness and much less so during dreamless sleep? The second problem is understanding the conditions that determine what kind of consciousness a system has. For example, why do specific parts of the brain contribute specific qualities to our conscious exp…

    pubmed/PMID-15522121-an-information-integration-theory-of-consciousness/info.md