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 · yt0.781

   One is we hear a lot of people who have a drastic spiritual awakening which is it sounds like this was for you where they question it right they wonder am I going crazy am I making it up what did I feel or not and the difference between an imagination and a fully embodied experience is the vibrating of the body the fact that it was fully immersive and that you are not just imagining something in a waking state or an imaginative state. You're not daydreaming. You're having a full visceral experience that is exceptionally powerful. Everything was going with it. You know, it was there was a unity…

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2. 02 · yt0.771

   And then this energy all of a sudden is everywhere. And this white scintillating light, my consciousness is in that light. And so now I am observing myself. So I'm the observer of myself this energy because this love was there. This joy and this peace was there as well. And then a thought forms. Wow. A thought. But I already got what the thought was trying to say. The thought was oh this stuff is what everything is made of. But these are symbols. What before that thought there was the understanding that the thought expressed and then that was the end of it. My my body was vibrating you know li…

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3. 03 · yt0.771

   So I was curious to ask you is how is your inner experience of life different since you've cultivated and developed this understanding within yourself of what reality really is compared to when you had achieved, you know, you changed the world. Essentially, you'd achieved everything that somebody could possibly hope to achieve in a lifetime and didn't make you happy. And so few people are in that position. So I think it's just it's worth asking you what what the difference is like before and after you're this, this realization, well. Night and day. But it was not immediately took a long time t…

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4. 04 · yt0.760

   In those days I was studying consciousness but I was working on neuronet networks. I was studying books in uh neuroscience and I wanted to understand how come that we are conscious. You know the neuroscientists don't tell us how we're conscious. They explain you know they explain how we work by electrical signals and biochemical signals in the brain. And I didn't see how I could possibly get sensations and feelings, what philosophers call qualia, out of electrical signals. And so I was really curious being a scientist and being also a technologist, I wanted to understand how I could program a …

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5. 05 · yt0.759

   So I was both the observer and the observed. That's another complete change of perspective. As I was telling you before I I thought that I was separate from the world. Now these experiences I am the world observing myself. big change of perspective. I am a part whole of one. I I have because I have the same character of one. I have the same potentiality of one. But I'm I'm also a part of one. Just like a cell in our body is a part all of the body because it has the genome of the entire body. Every cell contains the genome of the whole organism of one of the one organism. This case we are we ar…

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6. 06 · yt0.757

   While this was going on this light was everywhere scintillating a thought forms in my mind and the thought is wow this is this stuff of which everything is made and by that those were mental words but before the mental words there was a thought and for the first time there was a thought that was before it became words this I realized later but when I was doing It it was like I was stunned because there was a thought and then there were words >> you know where normally I before I was always thinking in words. So the you know there were never thoughts that were without words and in fact it…

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7. 07 · blog0.747

   Coordinating this with previous remarks: how you experience your experiences (e.g., how your feelings feel to you) is what it is like for you to have them. Our understanding of what is meant by “conscious” might also be sharpened by contrasting conscious states with what we can readily conceive of keeping from their company. A leaf’s fall from a tree branch, we will likely suppose, is not a conscious state of the leaf—an experience in the desired sense. Nor, for that matter, is a person’s fall off a branch a conscious state of that person. Rather, it is the feeling of falling that is paradigma…

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8. 08 · blog0.743

   The Interpretation of “Consciousness” On an understanding fairly common among philosophers, consciousness is the feature that makes states count as experiences in a certain sense: to be a conscious state is to be an experience. Widely (but not universally) accepted examples would include sensory states, imagery, episodic thought, and emotions of the sort we commonly enjoy. For instance, when you see something red, it looks somehow to you; when you hear a crash, it sounds somehow to you. Its looking to you as it does, and its sounding to you as it does are experiences in this sense. Likewise, w…

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

9. 09 · yt0.739

   Yeah, I sort of recognize it when I was more, you know, I was brought up Christian. My dad was a minister, so I know what you wanted to experience that direct religious experience. And I could just not get there somehow And I tried all techniques that the religion I was in sort of gave you. You're not just going to large events and singing pop songs about Jesus and trying to just get there, you know, and and it didn't work for me. So I know that sort of pain and also only through, psychedelic substances that I sort of first got there. But, what also, I found interesting to sort of translate a …

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10. 10 · blog0.735

    To see how the notion of experience might occasion such disputes, consider: Christopher Hill (2009) acknowledges that you may say that both being struck by a thought (e.g., that the email you just received is a scam), and feeling a sensation (say, a tingling in your foot) are “experiences”. But he maintains this is ambiguous: only the second is properly an experience, hence conscious, in the phenomenal sense. On this view, it seems episodic thought and sensation would count as univocally experiential, hence conscious, only if the former is identified with imagery. By contrast, Charles Siewert …

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