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 · yt0.813

   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

2. 02 · yt0.809

   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…

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3. 03 · yt0.805

   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

4. 04 · yt0.790

   The point is that there's no new particle, no new field, no new force that we will ever discover that will have an impact on our literal every day biology or environment, like what holds this table up. We hope to discover a lot more physics. It will not affect you or what you're made out of. So I know this is a-- I keep being told this is a technically inclined audience. So you don't like the picture. The picture makes you nervous. You want an equation. So here it is. This is what Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek has called the Core Theory. And he invented the name to emphasize that we usually dis…

   yt/x26a-ztpQs8-the-big-picture-sean-carroll-talks-at-google/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.788

   that is a very short period of time. So the point is not just that we haven't yet found anything in physics that could play an important role in your brain. The point is that we have very strong reason to believe in the fundamental principles of quantum field theory. It is really the only way of reconciling the principles of quantum mechanics with relativity. And if you believe in quantum field theory at all, then quantum field the field field theory tells you that had there been any new particles or forces that could have affected your everyday life, we would have seen them already. And we ha…

   yt/rqezWO5Yba8-sean-carrol-the-big-picture-on-the-origins-of-life-meaning-a/transcript.txt

6. 06 · yt0.787

   So, the first thing that the ontologist must teach the scientist is the distinction between, if you will, the really real world, which consists of irreducible wholes, and organisms are part of that, and then the empirical world, for lack of a better name, which is the world which is how the scientist the physicist the physical scientist conceives of things. And that's something entirely different. You cannot confuse these two. But the beauty is that in a certain sense that only the metaphysician can understand, you can really say that the difference between the world of the metaphysician, whic…

   yt/V_ZWBkSNMFg-platonic-physics-in-dialogue-with-wolfgang-smith/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.786

   The thought being that if you know the ingredients and you know their behavior, then at least in in an inprinciple sense you understand everything because everything is made of those ingredients acting on each other through those forces. But the imprinciple needs to be underscored. Nobody ever imagined that a theory like string theory or whatever your favorite unified theory theory of everything might be would you know be able to predict our behavior tell us what we're going to have for lunch tomorrow or be able to understand the nature of consciousness or the nature of life. I mean perhaps a …

   yt/I3_me7RqteE-ask-brian-greene-live-q-a-world-science-festival/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.785

   But your body, every single one of your 50 trillion cells contains the entire blueprint of who you are. Every cell is a miniature reflection of the whole. That's not mechanical. That's holographic. We as human beings, we are fields which are part whole of one. the totality of what exists. Same pattern repeated at different scales. And here's where it gets even more interesting. He says each of these cells doesn't just hold information. It's connected to the whole body through something deeper, quantum fields. This means your body isn't just a system of parts working in isolation. It's a field …

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

9. 09 · yt0.785

   Uh Lawrence Krauss has a wonderful piece in the upcoming scientific American on this absolutely crucial point. It means that within measurable time there will be no signs left in the observable universe that the big bang ever occurred at all. Everything will have disappeared out of sight. There'll be no markers uh nothing to take observations from. I mentioned this because it's often said that how can um how can uh something come out of nothing? It's the clever clever question every religious demagogue and businessman always begins by asking you. Well, we know we've got a bit of something in t…

   yt/vnMYL8sF7bQ-christopher-hitchens-and-rabbi-shmuley-boteach-debate-on-god/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.785

    Matter is a appearance in consciousness of conscious activity. Yeah, yeah, it's a presentation of consciousness to itself. Yeah. from across the dissociative boundary. but can you now feel this? I mean, it's it's I know you now for three years, and I know this intellectually. And it does it starts to sink in that I'm starting to sort of really feel okay. I'm looking here at the universe. Yeah. Thinking, and and that presents itself to me as Bernardo sitting here. Right. It's the mentation of the universe. I'm sort of. But it's just, the abstraction of it, you know? But I do find it a better po…

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