I was near death when I was 27 in October 97 from a burst brain aneurysm. I was unconscious and survived an operation that I wasn’t meant to survive. When attached to the life support machine I left my body but I only traveled out of the intensive care suit and floated in the corridor in front of my older brother and the German nursing sister. This was in Germany and I was a British Soldier. I know what my brother said to the nurse and what she said in reply. The first thing I said to my self was what is going on..this is weird. Th way I was seeing..it was like I was looking out of something..an Orb..I a floating just below the flashing red light above the room door..I remember looking at this and I saw from my advantage point my RSM with two other people a bit further down corridor. I could see, think and hear..but I wasn’t breathing the mechanism of respiration I was away from and the body I didn’t even think about. When I came out of my body it was like being in a jet black room then the blind gets pulled up on a window..and I was that blind coming out of darkness into light. I am interested in NDE and OBE. Read Peter Fenwick’s books and listen to is talks. I have been face to face with spirits and have seen my pas over family and passed cats. Peace and love.

Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

I hallucinated from a medication when I was about 13. I saw and talked to friends from school. They were completely normal looking like they were actually right there in front of me. Blew my mind that my brain could do that and gave me insight to kids having imaginary friends that are very real to them.

Perhaps those people were actually there, and others were unable to perceive them. Children usually have an active third eye, which is often ridiculed and dismissed by adults as an "active imagination".

@einrib4truth Halicunate is very odd term to use, you are visualized and imagined

I just hallucinated!! I believed I was watching something seriously interesting... 🙂

@Abhishek Ghosh Its opposite your body shuts down or temporary in the trance state and your mind goes to travel the different existence of realty simulations

Could be that the logical filters of your brain went temporarily offline under the influence of medication, and you actually perceived some nonphysical entities.

This massaged my brain just the way I like. Really got me thinking about the autistic brain vs the neurotypical brain. Also knowing my brain is different from the majority makes me doubt if I will experience things the same as others. If I would stand in line to do the rubber hand experiment I would get less and less likely to trust that the experiment would work on me as I witnessed more and more people reacting accordingly to the hypothesis. I also really liked the mention of how noticing change is it’s own sense of perceptiom in a way. My brain is wired to be hyper aware of change because it gives me anxiety. People with autism also often has lower or higher interoception. The dynamic feeling of existing in my body is a constant change of signals and the need and stress involved with keeping it balanced to avoid highs and lows because it steals all my attention is a nightmare. I often find myself wishing I was a robot just in order to be able to not get stuck in the perception of my own biology so that I can be present and fully involved in my surroundings. I am hyper aware of everything stimulating my senses both from my inner and my outer and since I can’t filter out or choose what to focus on life is generally extremely overwhelving for me and it has me drained and almost burned out as a baseline state. This leads to a lot of isolation with the occational insanely vibrant interaction with people and the world.

@Helena McGinty thanks for the heartfelt answear. But it wasn’t that deep haha. My comment don’t describe my personality or my relationship with the world overall. I can see how it can be interpreted like that I guess. So thanks for showing me that. I have almost no neurotypical friends and not one of us were diagnosed when we met so it wasn’t what any of us lead with and I met them seperately so things fell into place slowly learning how the expression things have through their being idk. I’m not one of those people making autism my personality, sure I am autistic but it’s not lile that says much about me on it’s own. And I have alwas known people love me. People see me for who I am because I am always that. I don’t always love myself but I wouldn’t change myself. I just need to check out sometimes. I am also a nurse and I have met many people of all kinds. People are people. Sorry for bad spelling etc I’m too tired haha Oh and funny thing I didn’t have ”words” for my experience until recently. I don’t see myself as pathological or disabled or whatever language you would consider a trap I guess. I have had anorexia depression whatever for more than half my life and I decided right away very aware that it wasn’t ”me”. I live with it but not in the forefront. I hate how mental illness is some kind of opressiom olympics these days. People calling others ableist or making them play word games because people put the responsibility of their ”comfort” om the world. Bruh.

​​​@Maja Mannhardive noticed a lot of people recently with eg autism or adhd or other neuro atypical minds assuming that x or y is related to their being atypical. Yes some behaviours, thoughts, perceptions are but not all. Eg recently someone commented that they had a very visual way of experiencing the world because of adhd. And I thought why the link? I went to art school in my youth and as far as I know that was the norm. In fact I was surprised to find out that millions of people dont visualise everything. But millions of people do. Some more than others like synesthetics. Millions have an internal monologue. Millions dont. I have noticed mostly when someone is describing something which a) could be me and b) is very common. But they are pathologising everything. I dont think ive explained too clearly but really want to say that please dont fall into the trap of doing that or alternatively miss interpreting the reason. I am one of those apparently outgoing people, full of confidence but hate going shopping. Not because people are unpleasant just because I find interacting with people who aren't close friends or family stressful. I used to think I was odd but discover there are thousands more out there if not millions. Maybe read some professional case studies. They can be eye opening. I learned a lot when I worked with severely mentally ill adults. I read a lot and we had excellent in house training. The best from service users themselves. Anyway I wish you well. Ps I was 42 before I realised that people actually liked me. I always assumed they just tolerated me. That was a surprise I can tell you.

@Littleprinceleon good questions. I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 26 so I have kind of trained myself until then to ignore my own needs as I didn’t understand them. How much I can tolerate is directly tied to how much ”brain energy” I have. If I’m overwhelmed and saturated I shut down and sometimes when I’m just out of batteries basically I can’t even do basic things, like get out of the store I’m in and I have to lile chill a little in a random aisle and make a mental plan step by step even though I’ve been grocerie shoppen a million times before. Nothing comes automatically. As a dumb teenger I developed anorexia wich I still have but I think it was my way of like becoming that robot that I wanted to be. But it probably backfired :D

Were you trained by some professional to manage this constant fight for actively directing your attention? Were you diagnosed? I myself have for some reason a rather rigid attention focus. Perhaps otherwise I wouldn't be able to focus at all. Maybe activities like the rubberhand experiment would help you to overcome somewhat your anxiety at least regarding the changes your body is involved in. What are those changes in your everyday surroundings which you can tolerate? Isn't there a kind of desensitizing therapy for this?

It's weird because we perceived from the inside of our bodies. I bet our perception would change if somehow our vision was set on a 3rd person point of view where we would view our bodies out of our own mind and we can see all our reactions and facial expressions and our movements and how we act and interact. If we would disintegrate our being.

Isn't your ideas are similar to do call out of body expreance

@Nick Green ur not special

I have always viewed my body as this machine I am passively watching and feedinginstructions to. When I first played golden eye 007 on Nintendo 64 I told my friends how weird it was to play a game viewing everything in the world from the viewpoint of eyes. They thought I was crazy because they said that is how everyone sees the world. I feel like I can see my own facial expressions and am outside my body watching whenever I am nervous or scared.

The academic conversion on consciousness has matured so much in the last 15 years or so. Very inspiring.

Has it? In what way? It seems to to have been stuck in in an ideological rut since the 19th century. If you want to know about consciousness you have to ask someone who studies it, and they are called mystics. As this presenter more or less says, in academia the standard of research is pathetic.

This is my first time turning my attention to the subject of consciousness from the point of view of whatever this is in 10 years. Nothing new which means there is still nothing beyond pseudo-intellectual self-stimulation. I will continue going to evolutionary biology and general brain sciences to learn about how we perceive and why. I think the part of the quote from the introduction that there is nothing worth reading is about right. The most important function of what they call consciousness is to be able to find a mate for procreation and to find your mouth with a spoon. Everything else did something towards those important goals at some point but then the wires got crossed and confusion ensued.

The academic 'conversation' is solely based on technological improvements in fMRI read-outs of live action brain scanning..That technology did more to alter research when certain knowledge became 'wrong' and the arguments got more stoked for a 'discovery near'...We know analytical philosophy is "all wrong" today..

ignorance truly is bliss

Also recommended is a book called “The mind Illuminated” by Culadasa (John Yates). He was a professor of neuroscience and trained in Buddhist meditation for over 40 years.

observe reasons from the heart, to listen to the Holy Spirit and be guided in power gifts talents capabilities beyond the limits of what he knew he could and had.

buddhism is limited human capacity, go to supernatural faith in Jesus Crist ,

thanks, mate, I will have a look at it :)

You practice meditation you train to be a Dr.

thank uu

I have various types of dissociative disorder (they are very hard to specify, but depersonalisation and derealisation are dominant) I also have the migraine related Alice in Wonderland syndrome This lecture makes a lot of sense to me - I've always felt that what I experience is not really real, but just my feeling about it.

Sorry to hear that. I also suffer from less serious mental issues and i always felt like my consciousness was trapped in that damaged body. Has if my consciousness was override by my analystical brain

THANK YOU for describing these ideas without using the terms "incomprehensible" and "mysterious". The hype has gotten way out of hand. Such a refreshing presentation! I'm glad you brought up the concept of identity. That one is tricky. I'm pretty sure that identity is a complex illusion. I sure wish I knew people I could discuss these ideas with.

tried dmt few years ago, got answers to all questions i had, left with even more questions 😂 had a positive effect on me, not at first though because I was afraid alot. Went through it, faced my fears, defeated them, it changed my life. Would love to explain the feelings but it's not possible to describe with words. Although it sounds amazing and fun,I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who isn't ready to leave reality and go back in after few hours. Can't say it's pleasant experience, but that it is life changing, it's true.

@EJKA Legal ha. I like your sense of humoe

@Lysika Jay And now I can....look I'm as clevar as you now!

@EJKA Legal Fitting that you can't spell psychedelic.

Stay away from psychedelic drugs.

Kind of weird that matter (table, glass of water etc) in itself has no consciousness, but if you arrange materia in a certain way (our brains), consciousness sort of appears out of nowhere. A magical leap right there.

Animism disagrees

@Joy Luxe Hiero Tarot with Rachael I always explained that God is zero.

@Ray Maharaj God is the awareness of self. Aka consciousness.

@The veggster Good day that doesn't solve the problem

@Joy Luxe Hiero etc etc etc GOD is the Alpha and the Omega, He who was, He who is, and He who is to come. Depart from your wickedness.

This is mindblowing. I wonder what goes on in really intense psychodellic experiences in relation to ego disolution. The perception of oneness and unity that disolves dualism. Obviously, level, content, and self are affected but it seems that it is the self what’s dismantled as a hallucination most evidently. Thank you very much for sharing this lecture.

@Yogi McCaw the definition of drugs is hard. Meditation is amazing, it stimulates neuroplasticity. But in my view, meditation is not hard work, meditation is not something that must be done. Why do you want to improve yourself? What is that ego that you want to improve and evolve? In Seth’s words the self is not real. Of course, it is fundamental to get in touch with the present, and the Eastern mind technologies such as meditation and yoga are great, but the use of psychodelic brews or plants is also valid in other cultures like in South America. In other words, we are not an alien entity to nature, we are nature.

It's good to stop taking psychedelics. I stopped in the 1980s. It's also important whether your psychedelics were of good quality. I took pure LSD made by a guy with a masters degree in chemistry from MIT. Another friend carefully grew psilocybin in a dark closet with exactly the right nutrients. It was amanita muscaria, not psilocybin cubensis. If you want the real experience of psychedelic mushrooms it has to be amanita muscaria. The chemical compounds are not the same, and the experience of amanita is way beyond cubensis. There are exact ways you have to create these substances, and in my experience, most people don't get the real thing. So many pills are floating around but they are just party drugs, not the real psychedelic experience. But drugs, even if they are of the highest quality, are just a stepping stone, a gateway to the actual meditative experience. To best experience meditation, get your body clean from drugs, and I mean for years, not just two weeks. Then you have to meditate a lot, not just 20 minutes a day. Do a bunch of 21 day vipassana retreats. Do hundreds of hours of isolation tanking. Whatever it takes. When you finally stop talking to yourself all the time, you can experience that existence just is. Explanations, like there is a god, or the brain creates everything, blah, blah, blah are meaningless. However, the science that Mr Seth here is doing is very important, because it is this kind of research that will actually help humans evolve into the next stage of intelligence (whatever that will be like). This evolution to the next stage of human intelligence is required if we are going to be able to solve problems like human warfare, global warming, and how to structure a sane civilization. Right now, we're failing on all three, because we aren't evolved sufficiently to handle those challenges. Let's be part of the solution, and not part of the problem!

@Simon Watts lol

Gibberish

This video made me feel like I am eating with my brain. The quality of this knowledge and the curiosity and the necessity of obtaining understanding of this concept for my personal growth made me feel better than I've ever felt in my entire life.

@Roman Konečný my guy just distributed a lost biblical text, the Book of Tadademoni

@USA TAMONDOMUNI if you think so. 😁

@USA TAMONDOMUNI Man u gotta chill, u trippin

@Roman Konečný If so, then show us the point. You must know that "real" and "true" are not the same. What Are Truth, True and Real? : For the True Lasting World Peace and Order 1The “re” in the word “real” is the variant stem of the Latin word “res”, which literally means “thing” or "being". 2The “al” in the word “real” is the Latin “alis”, which literally means “from” or “of”. 3Thus, the word “real” literally means “thingfrom” or “from being”. 4The First Thing or First Being must be the First Matter from whom everything that is real, including the First Space and First Time, came or emerged to exist. 5Thus, the First Matter, who must be our second-to-none First Mother, the true Supreme Being of all beings, must be the "fundamental" and the only not "real" (or not from First Thing) or not "material" (not from First Matter), but all material things, including all spaces or places and times must be “real” or "emergence". 6Thus, the existence of the Supreme Being is NOT real but true simply by cause real and true are not the same. 7The English word “true” is from the Old English word “treowe”, meaning literally “loyal” or “trustworthy” by cause being true is being in accordance with the actual state or condition, as in 1+1=2. 8The English word "truth" is from the Old English word “treowth”, the adjective or noun of “treowe” or “true”, meaning “loyal” or “trustworthy”, which is akin to Old Norse word "tryggr” and Gothic (God’s) word “triggws”, meaning “trustworthy”. 9Indeed, all the swindlers or robbery extortionists, psychopathic liars and deceivers, like Jesus and Muhammad, the prophets, priests, pastors, ministers, rabbis, imams and brahmins, were “truths” or “trustworthy” to their victims before their victims discovered they were NOT “true truths” or they were “false trustworthy”--- they are also called "traitors". 10Thus, the word “truth” until now literally means “the true or actual state of a matter”, or “conformity with fact or reality”. 11And the mind-boggling is that of all brilliant scientists and philosophers, only USA ta Mondomuni, who is “nothing” or “nobody” to you, is telling you the final sciences and/or true truths about “reality”, “matter” et cetera. 12The world’s Number1humbugger Jesus Christ boasted, saying, “I am the way (wise), the truth and the life”, and Paul (Fool), his debater, lawyer son-in-law, criticized others, saying that they were “ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 3:7 KJV). 13As you know, in our world, there are so many truths, like 1+1=2, not 1+1=1 (John10:30). 14In the Bible’s story of Jesus’ arraignment (John 18:28-38), Attorney Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator of Judea, questioned Jesus: “What is truth?” for which Jesus could not or did not answer. 15It was after Jesus had said to him that he, Jesus, was the king of heaven, that is, he was Theos or Zeus (NOT God—Jesus spoke NO English, you know!); and that for that reason he, Jesus, a false or fools’ Jehovah’s Witness, was born in this world to testify that it was the truth. 16That is exactly what that particular supposed “truth” they, Jesus and his disciples, were psychopathically talking about, which was merely a psychopathic lie or “false truth”. Why? 17That is by cause Theos was merely Zeus of the Greek mythology. 18It is a true truth that the name or word “Theos” is from the Sanskrit word “Dyaus”, which literally means “Sky”, and Jesus Christ could NEVER be the sky or dios above you. Hoy, have mercy on yourself! 19Jesus and Paul, like all ancient Christians and non-Christians, were theos-ignorant, atom-ignorant, television-ignorant, electricity-ignorant, radio-ignorant, telephone-ignorant and coronavirus-ignorant, 20Therefore; it was the Sinner Fool and Jesus Christ who were “ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 3:7 KJV). 21Therefore, Jesus Christ's and Christians' “truths” must be the “false truths” and Jesus Christ and Christians must be the psychopathic liars and deceivers, true Devils who deceived the whole world whom you must NOT believe NOR honor. 22That is why the “truths” of Jesus and of his victims, the Christians, are “fools ‘truths” or “false truths”, NOT “true truths”. 23It is the “truths” of USA ta Mondomuni and of his saved, the USAists, which are the “true truths”. 24Surely, it is USA ta Mondomuni who is telling you the true truths that will set you free from the prison of religious and political psychotropic lies and deception whom you must believe, support and honor. 25For more true truths about Theos and Jesus, Google 3 of the true Holy Books of USA ta Mondomuni, entitled: • Why Was Jesus Christ Neither a Son of God Nor the Lord God? : The True Truths That Will Set You Free; • Why Is Christianity a Stupidity Like Any Religion? : The True Truths That Will Set You Free; • The True Truths about Deity, Dios, Deus, Theos, Zeus, Jesus, Jehovah, Brahma, Allah, Elohim, Lord God, and the True Supreme Being: The Only True and the Best Theology

@USA TAMONDOMUNI U clearly missed the point of the video...

Yes. Because we live in a mental interpretation of the limited input about reality we can get from our sense organs.

Not what he's talking about tho

What is real then she'd some light because you are being very vague...

@everything isalllies there is definitely objective truths, like the laws of physics. You cannot walk through a door without opening it etc. But in most cases everything things are subjective meaning perception dictates what is true for that person. Many things that are out there as objective truths that are actually just theories is exactly my point. Reality is shaped by how you think at the end of the day.

For a few months I had the belief that everyone in my life has been replaced or they’re not really the people I used to know. I couldn’t tell a doctor because I believed they would be “in on it.” I’m still not sure how to deal with that worry because it hasn’t fully gone away, but what I try to do is just not think about it. I hallucinate bugs (and shadow people occasionally) as well as noises but mostly when I’m under intense stress or emotional pain. But whenever something goes wrong in my life I believe it’s been planned out that way by the people I know. The level of paranoia is a really isolating experience, I hope one day I can trust my perception of reality and make meaningful relationships that last

I stay away from using any form of marijuana after experiences very much like this. And I advocate for others to avoid it after seeing two people in my life loose track of reality. I say this as a person who also does thew strongest hallucinogens with no problem, such as acid, DMT, 5meo, 2cb. Hope your are getting a more stable perception.

You definitely should visit the doctor, psychiatrist, neurologist. It's called Capgras delusion. It occurs in female more frequently than men. It could be due to schizophrenia, dementia, brain injury or other neurodegenerative disorder. There's also therapy for it. (Btw I'm not part of the conspiracing imposters as you might suspect😇). Good luck🤗

Ya the feeling of a loved one or close ones turning against you is a symptom of schizophrenia

Not a doctor but that sounds like schizophrenia or smth, maybe you should go get that checked.

My immediate thoughts after reading Chalmer's quote on the physical basis of consciousness were that we rarely look at the fields created by the neurological (electrical nature) of our brains. What to me is more interesting is that when we sleep we seem more like simpler organisms (annelids, sponges, Platyhelminthes, crustaceans) and when we are awake we seem to have consciousness. Perhaps consciousness is the aberration we have when we should be asleep.

Arguably these fields are the armour of our subjectivity when awake, open to our own luxurious interpretation after experience.

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I've experienced the most profound ego dissolution during ketamine therapy, highly recommended for personality disorders if you can orchestrate a complete rebirth of the ego. It is terrifying because you have to face the infinity of the universe and accept it fully in order to get there, which is a very intense experience to handle.

I do wonder what used to happen to me when I was 17/18. When I first closed my eyes to go to sleep, straight away I would see a bright light and I mean really bright and while that is happening I struggle to breathe and at the same time I feel like I am being pushed down on my shoulders but as soon as I fight to open my eyes all is fine apart from feeling a bit freaked out by the experience. It used to happen at least 3 times a week, but last time it happened was about 14 years ago. I was heavily addicted to ecstasy at the time so I thought it may of had something to do with that but I hadn't even had it the nights it used to happen. So really not sure what happened to me, would be nice to know.

Interesting lecture. I've hallucinated from psychedelics a few times and the similarities I see in the examples are interesting. The first time I did mushrooms, I seen eyes everywhere. Kind of like the video that shows the image of the dog hallucinations. Quite similar to that. It was an odd feeling.

I had a similar experience where I could see various animal eyes, also seen fully formed skeletons crawling in the clouds and souls locked in eternal damnation in the bathroom tiles.

They are watching you, They watch you in order to find fault and criticise you. They criticise you to keep you down . Down, down, deeper and down

He was a good bit off base with that description, unfortunately.

When you go into the dimensions of consciousness and get to the having a body and being a body and the rubber hand experiment it clicked in my brain what Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) is about (my daughter has it) Her body switches perception randomly and because of it can't walk , has pain, dissociated or stammers and seemingly unexpected turns back to 'normal or 'functional' perspective. It sounds like a conscious disease after listening to this talk and makes it clearer to me why the medical world struggles with it Physical doctors say it is mental and mental doctors say it is physical and no one knows what to do with it. Would love to hear the speakers views on this very disabling disease...

I have had derealization for about 2 years now I feel like nothing is real Im surprised how i haven't lost my mind yet 😅

@Charles Carabott some doctor allegedly fully functioning "without brain" (sic!)...

@Littleprinceleon explain as I don't remember what the subject was and I'm not going to look for my comment

I'm pretty confident after 69 years that their are alternate realities we experience depending on what we project or expect in our conscious states. Much like dreaming. I've had it happen many times. Great insights. Thank you. Now if I could just mind meld the winning lotto numbers... but World Peace would be better. We are one, only separated by our perception of possibilities. Whoever dies with the most LOVE wins! :D

@Logical Concept this is a pretty good way of bringing some important points about consciousness, the actual reality of our nature as described by quantum theory, and the effects of psychedelics on the perception of our reality as opposed to the very nature of our reality.

@earlesurfs ok I will bite. What books?

I like this.

@earlesurfs 😯 *Send me a lisT oF booKs theN pLeaSe m8Te.!* 💰 📚

These psychedelic states are similar to deep meditation. Interestingly epsilon, hyper-gamma and lambda brain states result in a very similar mystical "shamanic" experience. There has been some interesting research done in this field in the last decade. Brainwaves are at least something we can actually measure and they seem deeply related to our experience of consciousness.

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GREAT!!! BUT! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.

That's the plan. Scare them enough with OMICRON and they won't think or question anything. And amazingly it WORKS.

ayep

The hard problem - the intuition arises from the fact that I'm not just conscious, I'm aware of being conscious. The question is, does the bat know it's a bat? Maybe it's not like anything to be a bat, the bat is unaware of its consciousness. This is self awareness, not just the fact that I'm awake and having experiences, but the ability to understand I'm awake and having experiences, and able to observe both of those things happening from a state of self awareness. Is a dog capable of thought experiment? Especially that which concerns his own experience? I suppose it's all just electrical signals firing in a lump of meat, but you can't blame one for believing there's more to it, we only see the ability in humans. It might be helpful if a bat could describe what it's like to be a bat.

Running that experiment falls under "content". All content corresponds to specific patterns of neurological hardware activating in the brain. So presumably humans are animals that have the right hardware and patterns of activation to create that content. We know that different species have different kinds of brains, different shapes, sizes, and lobes; so I think it's fair to say that some of those brains probably wouldn't be able to support that content. Perhaps only a few species have ever achieved that capability in the history of the Earth.

@Naomi Wallace no, but you can draw your attention to it. As we're doing now. Kind of like breathing is involuntary but you can control it if you think about it.

I'm not sure that you are aware of being conscious at the same time as you are experiencing consciousness

You would have to be a bat to fully understand bats 😉. Maybe a clever bat will think you are not conscious of bats consciousness.

This is the 2nd lecture I see about him talking about consciousness. And it's very satisfying seeing his progress between the two. I think the first time was in a TED talk.

I felt the same. There was just a HUGE jump in clarity, confidence and novel information from the TED talk to this one... and I remember the TED talk blowing my mind too! He is a real scientific superstar.

Incredible video. He elaborated every theory I had.

"Consciousness is like, a feeling or whatever." ~ Science

@Altin Gashi my understanding is that science has to brutal. You need evidence and repeatable experiments

@DrSpooglemon lol that’s funny

When almost everyone already knows it: science: - is it possibly true?

@Good Mitchy j1

@DrSpooglemon 😒 *Ehh...WhaT's liFe wiThouT a liTTLe bReViTy.!* 😆

Thanks for the interesting talk. Just wanted to comment on the quote "Nothing worth reading has been written on it [consciousness]." In the modern, materialistic scientific literature, maybe. It would be a shame though to forget that Eastern traditions have been thinking about it for ages and made pretty astounding discoveries. For instance, the idea at the centre of this talk that our reality and our sense of self are like an illusion has been one of the main claims of Buddhism for the last 2600 years (since the Buddha lived).

It doesn't help that Buddhism has so many canonical explanations and so many 'sects' and the huge volume of texts seems to indicate a lack of language communication and poor linguistics to get Siddhartha's (that "Buddha"?) message across of "impermanence" and not 'nirvana' the cessation of the 'operable social self' which is "nihilism" today, especially for cave-dweller extremists..

The folk ideas of the buddha are irrelevant here.

Gibberish, the sense of self is inherent in all living things - IT IS NOT AN ILLUSION!

@Bryan Lane 'A lot of unfounded beliefs" A lot ??? Really, name me 5.

@Anti Spin Dr No he didn’t. Again the same issue, no one is Neo or a supporter of him. You’re still making the same mistake, taking banal facts of life and making them out to be lies. There is no false world.

Thanks a lot for your excellent and inspiring talk!

I've experienced a dream, where everything was more real than the reality and in this dream I was able to feel the transition of the dream into the waking life. It was like emerging from water, but thicker, clear jelly like substance and entering this life full of air. That's my best explanation for now, as it's very tricky to describe!

Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus thank goodness the University of Armchair Diagnosing gives out accreditation

Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus _"so what you're saying is..."_ Truly, the victory cry of the delusional.

@USA TAMONDOMUNI oh jeepers, that's a whole lot of pretentious gobbledygook. If that whole thing is etymology, try to be aware that you are just using symbols to represent your thoughts, and the origin of the symbol has no influence on your own thoughts. Just relax, and enjoy.

@USA TAMONDOMUNI whatever you are saying is coming from a place of ignorance, I'm sorry. I was quoting Zhuang Zhu

@mitchell What Is the Ultimate Reality? : For the True Lasting World Peace and Order 1The “re” in the word “reality” is the variant stem of the Latin word “res”, which literally means “thing”. 2The “al” in the word “reality” is the Latin “alis”, which literally means “from” or “of”. 3The “ity” in the word “reality” is the Latin “itas”, which literally means “state “or “condition”. 4Thus, the word “reality” literally means “the state or condition of thing”, which also means “the true state or condition of a thing, entity or being”. 5The word “ultimate” is from the Latin word “ultimare”, which literally means “to come to an end”, but some ancient and even modern people did not know it; and so they wrongly meant by “ultimate” as “highest”. And that is what it means “highest” there in that question above. 6Thus, the Ultimate Reality or Highest Reality must be the Reality, that is, State or Condition, of the true Most High who must be the First Yesthing from whom the Everything in USA ta Mondomuni’s The True Vedantas or Final Sciences of Everything for True Lasting Word Peace and Order Began to Exist and Exploding Outwards—that is, Evolving. 7She is the First Matter, First Space and First Time whom my fellow brilliant scientist and philosopher Stephen Hawking described as the “Singularity”, a point or thing of almost no size but of infinite mass and energy, that is, Almighty, who brought about Her own existence and with whom the Universe (Unity), the Everything, started to exist and exploding outwards. 8Thus is the correct knowledge or science of the Ultimate Reality in USA ta Mondomuni’s original The True Vedantas or Final Sciences of Everything for True Lasting World Peace and Order.

Consciousness is extremely fascinating to me because I have a very personally complex relationship to the concept of self, consciousness, the body, and the brain. I find these things to all be separated but integrated almost as a symbiosis of these concepts that create ourselves and our reality moment to moment. I haven't really been able to ever quantify how to appropriately express the idea but some day I might have the ability to communicate it effectively.

@No Name I like this concept for exploration. I personally have issues with specific ideals around existence and reality as I sometime suffer psychosis which makes what isn't real to the accepted social reality but are very very real for me and it's these moments and my first experience with it that made me want to explore all that I do because the Brain is a powerful machine that we aren't consciously in complete control of. It is a simply complex relationship we hold on our unique universe

I've done a lot of meditation on the topic. "I" EGO "Me" NUREYEV "Self" SOUL "We" THE VESSEL -- Consciousness is a giant dream, dreamt by something from a place that exists outside of Death's grasp (or even an unknown aspect of death itself). Let's call this place the "Outer Darkness" (The Primordial / Divine Feminine). The more I have thought about this, the weirder the answers become. By direct comparison of personal experience against the records of other individuals, I've come to terms with a sort of terrible reality.....Humanity is a form of Cattle for entities that exist outside of our 3D space/time environment. I've interacted with some of these entities. They are emotionally cold toward us, they are methodical, they are cruel to be kind.

Eastern philosophy has this understood for thousands of years

And in that moment it will be done as efficiently as you explained it here! 💗🧠

I enjoyed this, gave me a lot of food for thought. Octopi are probably the most alien type creatures to us on this planet. This made me think about my fight or flight response, I don't have or have I ever had the flight response in me and it made me think that possibly it is my brains way of making sure that I do every thing I can to stay safe rather than to flee and leave it to something I may not be able to control, self preservation I'm a sense. There is also my critical thinking when it comes to a bad situation, whether it be fire or some other type of emergency type situation. My brain has always went on an Auto pilot mode to deal with the situation, it has happened numerous times, I've come to just trust my instinct in those types of situations and it's always worked out in the best, my brain seems to know what to do faster than I could evaluate what is happening. That might have some free will questions attached to it. I found this insightful, I love this stuff, great presentation.

My brother had cancer. They put him on morphine in the hospital. He was still in a lot of pain, so I asked the nurse how much he's allowed. She gave me a figure and I said well he's really hurting, how about you give him half of the full amount. She did that, and I made sure that for the time I was there, (6 hours) that they gave him that amount on time. So 2 hours later, we're talking and he's clearly pain free. But abruptly, h asks if there's a giant spider in the corner, near the ceiling. I looked and said, no, there's nothing there. OK, he said, then I'm hallucinating. Too much morphine can do that. The amazing thing is, that he became aware that he WAS hallucinating, once I confirmed that there really wasn't a giant spider in the room. That blew me away.

Random Things: excellent anecdote. I remember hallucinating when I was 15 years old and running a temperature of 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Like your brother, I was aware of myself, my surroundings, and my illness even while I was hallucinating. Strange phenomenon.

I've only hallucinate twice in my lifetime, from lack of sleep. Both Times it was a giant spider. Weird this thing about spiders 🕸

@RandomThings he's saying while hallucinating you can't touch them,

@Dino C by the 1+1 feeling are you meaning the observer and the observed?

Yes it is, which is self-evident every day as you say: there is no real 'agency', it need not be termed a 'hard problem', and consideration of electrochemical interactions or the the multiverse need not be brought into it 🙂

I've had some pretty insane dreams. Ones with recurring people lately who I don't know but they seem to be my friends. It's so strange because usually the people in my dreams aren't recurring. It has been these 4 quadruplets 2 girls and 2 guys and usually they are helping me do something. Any ways the absolute strangest dream I had as of late was Star Gazing. In the dream I was sitting next to this woman and looking at the stars back at my old childhood home. I've never seen stars in any dream that I can recall so this was mind blowing...but what happened next was COMPLETELY mind blowing....We saw this large cluster of stars shaped like a loaf of bread from the bakery. They were stationary then all of a sudden they dispersed like a meteor shower all across the sky. It was very intense there was no sense of fear like this was going to impact earth or anything. So anyway I get up and go to the garage and think to myself what the on earth was that! And I walk back outside to look at the stars yet again and this time I see the Milkyway Constellation....It was MASSIVE the colors were vivid with hues of blue purple and white and at the center was this huge hexagonal shape with tails spiraling from all corners. Then I woke up lol..anyways I feel like that dream shattered a bit of reality for me. IDK Just thought I'd share.

What a beautiful dream, a lovely mind you have there!

Yes of course reality is a hallucination, we only pull a small amount of relevant information from our surroundings and the brain generates the rest, all of our brains do it similarly enough that our hallucinations agree with each other, although I'm sure everyone perceives reality slightly differently.

Nonsense

I don't have time for this

@dayday avoid fooling yourself into thinking you know the heart of a stranger

@willcrep yes I think you’re searching for validation and no lol but alright I’m not trying to carry on the conversation anymore, take care

@dayday did you think i was trying to sound smart or something? i don't know about applying the scientific method at early age but you could really make use of the last part of my previous comment

This was really, really good and speaks to a lot of thoughts/questions I've wondered about when taking a closer look at what it is to be conscious

Does this mean concepts like 'attachment' can be self referential? Ie. Emotional involvement as a form of attachment, whereby Emotions may act in their own accord, independent from reason

I love waking up to realise I'm still asleep, I can do this multiple times before i am actually awake I can have a full on conversation with myself to wake up and no just another level down. This is 90 % fun but sometimes can be a real pain. Wouldn't have it any other way though. I live two lives how lucky am I

I have done this before and it can’t be scary thinking your awake and then scary people walk into my room and I wake up over and over thinking I’m awake and each time it’s a different dream then when I really wake up I’m so scared and relieved

How??

I remember once I went to a seminar of Rodolfo Llinas, and he told us a crazy story about a brain surgeon, one day he was doing surgery with a specific patient, he was stimulating certain parts of the thalamus, with the patient awake (might seem weird but you can do brain surgery with the patient awake, only local anesthesia), and suddenly the patient told the doctor: -My left leg is afraid, or jealous or whatever (I don't exactly remember what emotion), but I was quite amazed, didn't knew that consciousness can be manipulated in such strange ways.

@Yam Esotericistthank you

@BinaThere The English channel is closed. I'm working now on subtitles, contact me via e-mail, I'll advice you when it's ready.

@Yam Esotericist I would watch your videos bit don't understand Russian

@Madonnalitta1 that's old science now.

Since I've read the book "The Hidden Spring" by Mark Solm I found curious that this guy states more than once that nobody else talked about or have dig into the topic of consciousness. He kinda keeps saying the other guys are wrong or never explored the subject like I did (maybe he wants to sell his book). And then he goes on exploring his view base on the same examples and clues depicted in the Solms book. My conclusion is that at least these two guys should talk each other

GREAT! BUT! Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!

I often faint because of a vasovagal response. But seven years ago I had a heartattack in bed. I woke up briefly feeling aweful and then everything went black. I have no idea for how long I was out, but I came back very differently from a fainting spell. Somehow my brain knows that that was a far deeper and very different type of black out I experienced. Coming back I repeatedly shouted at the top of my voice, NO, NO, NO, NO. I was very aware of the level of no consciousness I had experienced. It is difficult to explain.

Infantile amnesia is so curious to me. I wish there weee more lectures on this realm of consciousness.

"Even the perception of whether things feel real can change"....I've had depersonalization/derealization for the last 9 monthes, and, let me tell you, that...that right there, is very true

Ive had Derealization for the past 2 years or so . I wouldn't wished this on my worst enemy. How can one be so detached from reality but attached just enough to be able to sanely interact with it. This constant dream state is enough yo drive anyone mad. I just hope i can make it through this. It has caused me to become insanely nihilistic , what really is the point of life if my reality is this?

O my god someone else with derealization

A. George Dude you're desperately reading way too much into the comment, if you can't tell that I was clearly speculating then I can't help you. The point is once again and I do hope you can understand this....someone replied asking if he was suffering from schizophrenia...there's enough to say he isn't because his symptoms are less than a year old.....DID starts before the formation of Identity before age 9 rule that out, schizophrenia isn't what he described so that's out especially because it changes for him in his perception while he maintains clarity in his thoughts..... Really not sure what your goal is when my point was plainly very clear...you seem to have stated and revised in your own words what I've already said....truly bizarre.

A. George Dissociative identity disorder IS an identity issue my friend and something I already put forth, it could be DP/DR but that isn't consistent with what he is describing but it is also a symptom of anxiety and doesn't need to be connected to PTSD to occur.. My point was he isn't describing schizophrenia as the original individual thought.

@here's johnny ah, wise and insightful words my friend. Thank you for the information!

What is happening around me now is a very difficult time. Lucidity of dreaming is a very good idea of how much we have been in awareness and sensory experience.

First encountered Mr Seth on the psychedelics world science festival interview and this man’s knows what he’s talking about , always great to learn thank you !!!

Gibberish

GREAT! BUT! Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!

GREAT!!! BUT! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.

GREAT!! BUT! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.

I played professional baseball for a while, college ball etc and being capable of visualizing your body from the outside looking in- is very beneficial

Consciousness isn't just perceiving change its perceiving being (being in the moment). It's also thinking of other things; a drifting mind.

It is interesting that when you consider brain function as a feedback system, that maps rather neatly onto the perceptron model of a neuron. That is, given that a perceptron is a scaled comparator, each neuron is constructed as a feedback controller.

Neurons work in one direction only. More than one neuron is required to accomplish feedback.

It may help those involved in this ongoing debate to know about an intermittent almost daily debate I had over two months, with two people on line who believed that nothing really exists and everything is an illusion. The debate ended abruptly when I asked one of them the simple question. "Does thought exist?" There was a long silence then one said to the other. "Welcome back to reality Mr. X." Three weeks later, still no answer. I wonder why? Next time you meet someone under the illusion that you don't exist, you may try asking that question. Please let me know if it works or not.

Dreaming is basically your memory seeing visuals on TV, observing things around us in a subconscious way. Your mind picks up the stimuli around you, and that is what we dream about. Some dreams make sense and others don't. It's a world salad that our mind creates for us. Anyway, that's my thought on the matter!

the acting on tv you live actions on dreans.

Topic aside, it's so good to see them back in the theatre after so much time.

GREAT! BUT! Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!

GREAT!! BUT!! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.

Connection to heart

Think

God made them to guide us

Nailed it! We see what we believe based on our unique life experiences and information input.

Like inverted qualia 🤔💯

Yes,like standing on the same block; if you're on the northeastern corner and the other person is on the south-western corner, you are both on the same street but each person sees and experiences differently. It's my standard explanation of what we see and what we don't see.

I always figured out consciousness is a mirror of space, time and matter itself

Fascinating vid. It illustrates very effectively how, & why, there can’t be such a thing as truly objective perception (nor, by extension, any objective or "pure" reason — likely much to the horror of Kant, were he still alive today 😜)

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Fascinating, my mother had episodes where she was convinced a woman she knew in the 1930's was pushing her way into her house. Also that a boy was living in her shed with rabbits. She did have dementia by that time so it must have been a dementia induced hallucination. I had no idea that could happen.

Hmm...it's so good to be able to share ideas that will effect some of us, especially because out mothers pass along those genes, or so I had learned, but not from school. I was wondering if maybe, if the ends of DNA strands happen as we get older, and it turns out to correlate to dementia or any other aging disease because of copying recessive genes from " forgetting " which ones were ourselves, then isn't it also possible to be hallucinating memories in the genetic past that were blended as the record was made? Like rings on a tree stump, but in 3d, and maybe- from someone else's experience....from the father's story. Oooo, I hope google algorithm gives me some of that info:)). Be well and bless y'all

It's kind of the reverse of what some babys have become they haven't been though human things they can see entitys sometimes but when they get older more grounded in this reality they stop seeing it and what you discribbed might be the reverse of that

Maybe or maybe her reality blended with another reality, one of the interesting side effects of dementia is you can forget what you learned here and as a result remember other realitys and maybe people you know there,ironic right by forgetting you also remember or pull things in

Same, I always thought dementia was just a loss of memory mainly. Her brain possibly tried to fill the missing holes, but did so in not the most accurate way.

Thank you for the informative talk, Dr. Seth. I expect I will be buying your book.

I was just introduced to the work of Robert Lanza a week ago, and now this! I’m so grateful to have stumbled upon this talk 🙏🏼 always grateful for a good cosmic breadcrumb trail!

GREAT! BUT! Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!

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Check out Donald Hoffman- he’s into similar theories

Hi I recommend you Rupert Spira. He teaches the direct path to be aware of awareness/consciousness 🙏. I think science doesn’t bring you there. Own experience can..

Incredible. We all stumble through life, and we “think,” we are ego, we are nothing but a speck on a speck, on a speck. Insignificant and yet significant. The ultimate expression of complex duality in apparent “living,” life.

You could look at it the other way as well. We are a Universe in a Universe....

GREAT! BUT! Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!

It feels like our world is just a perception our consciousness makes to grasp the physicality of it.

This is worth understanding: consciousness is a result of being alive, not of being intelligent.

@Colin-O-pithicus Why would a claim that consciousness exist beyond death be bizarre? Being that we have no idea why life or consciousness exists in the first place. Nobody knows why or how we're here.

@बोजॅक Beautifully succinct.

@123prestolee No it doesn't. A person in a comatose state may also be able to listen to others and have some kind of awareness. We don't have a definition for consciousness because we don't even know what it is, yet. PS: Every definition we come across is a subjective or philosophical definition. Neuroscience literature hasnt given consciousness a "definition" yet.

For me, a visual experience, emotional experience, and smells all trigger every aspect for me. I don't know how to describe it, but an intense visual experience will become an intense emotional experience and intense emotional experience will cause me to visualize in ym head becoming an intense visual experience. I'm also not nuerotypical so that might be why.

Amazing talk. This seems like a legitimate path to continue exploring.

Two words for the "waking up" comment as coming out of unconsciousness. Lucid Dream. I can be very much conscious in my dreams even if I had no memory of the dream, I know that I was aware while I was dreaming, and that an amount of time was spent trying to understand what was going on. The same way that I may not remember what I was doing a few days ago but I know I was aware while I was doing it.

@Harry Heck i have over 15,000 games data logged which require clicks per cycle. A cycle is .6 seconds. For 8 hour sessions i can only do 4-6 actions per cycle. On lsd i can do 12-18. There is a measurable difference in my performance which i have logs of. How many layers of dreams have yiu had at once?

@chocolate pain I have done LSD. I will give you that. It can make it appear like time is moving slower. Your brain is technically running at the same speed but the thalamus's function is reduced causing other areas of the brain to get overloaded. It does cause a perceptual problem. But in no way does it increases the processing speed of your brain. Everyone would be taking LSD to perform advanced calculus if that were true. It simply overloads sections of your brain with too much normal sensory input. It just causes a sensory backlog that causes mistakes in identification and feelings. Kind of like ADHD times ten thousand. You make it sound like the fictional drug in the movie Lucy. Perception of time with LSD is a delusion not a reality. I have dreams that are like stories. They are almost always first person. I write them down and use them for inspiration for novels that I don't have a lot of free time to write. I have about fifteen novels at various stages and outlines for dozens more. The characters backstories and interactions play out when I'm writing, but the general creation happens in my dreams. I have dreams that are episodic and will continue for weeks. They usually don't have a narrative strand so I will become conscious and insert a narrative strand then play it out to see what happens. If there are narrative strands of interest left unresolved I will pause it, go into full edit mode and complete them before waking. I never used to be like this, I trained my brain to do this and I had to start writing it down to solidify it. I never was interested in writing before I developed this.

@Harry Heck i 100% can tell you have never done lsd because your statement is just false. Your brains internal monologue speed and processing ability can be changed drasticaly by the magntitude of ^e with neurotropics. I suggest you give it a try around the 600 ug dose. Next question; do u have dreams that run in story lines like segments or episodes?

@chocolate pain Einstein didn't say that. You cannot experience a second being shorter or faster. The perception of a second is the same because it is based off of the brains quantum clock. The observation of a person that is approaching the speed of light can look like they've 'slowed' down but that person still experiences one second as one second while the universe ages rapidly around them. It doesn't go the other way because we are already relatively near zero percent the speed of light. Memories are a tricky subject, they are subject to change, by merely recalling them alters them. Adrenaline can lay down memories much more densely than walking around doing mundane tasks, and it bypasses reason activating a reflex brain. It's just a trick. Time is not altered. A second is still a second. I can assure you, you are not experiencing time differently when you're dreaming. Your recall of time is altered.

Thank you for being a talented speaker!

I know, right 😏

Since I got sober, my dreams have been extremely vivid and conscious while I am still asleep

Very informative and logical. We think therefore we are, and we think because we are. Everything in between is a bunch of chemical influences.

When does a brain cease to predict itself into existence while falling from the 100th floor? (awesome lecture BTW, my brain's now forever messed up)

This is the best lecture i have seen , ever. Words cannot express my gratitude. This brilliant professor got it right/correct/accurate down to the most important. The mind is a constant cyclic prediction machine. Reality is a semi controlled construct of the consciousness. You constantly predict reality into a subjective existance/perception. This lecture is dedicated to every person who practice augmented conciousness/augmented sensory/ extrasensory perception. Claircognizant, precognition, remote viewer, psychic, esp, super recognizer, face shifter, colour shifter, mind mirror practitioner, script imager, mind reach practitioner, multiple sensory predictive mixer, moded enhanced sensory modulator... The same predictive machanism that enable perception in ordinary people, extend itself in enhanced/augmented people. I dont know how the professor got it right/so accurate, unless he was assisted by an enhanced person.

The Truth Here!!✔️👍👽

Or maybe the fact that he got it right by coming from a different direction shows that it's all real. It seems that certain scientific and academic subjects are now catching up with all the alternative subjects. Both different sides of the same coin.

If that was true then what about people like myself who are diagnosed with mental illnesses that actually do cause hallucinations? Both visual and auditory, and funnily enough brain scans show the areas of the brain that are producing such hallucinations, yet none of these areas light up in people without the illnesses that cause these symptoms, I think this is pushing the boat out a bit too far 🙃 Also, I've spent the last 9 years almost on my own, stuck in my home almost 24/7/365 for all that time, no family to visit me and only the rare friend dropping by, other than that a carer who helps me with my shopping etc., but the vast majority of the last 9 years has been on my own, it's actually quite fun watching people break down because they spent a fraction of that time on their own, try 9 years then I'll give you the cookie you're looking for! 🤣

@Bob Man I'm not 🙃

Hello there ! I am a loner and I wanted to know is that healthy to be alone for that much time ? Idk but I want to be alone most of the time.

@Ant Man Psychoses like Schizophrenia are genetic, generally, but not always, handed down via the male side (father to son) and is even hypothesised to be an evolutionary advantage against stress, hence the reason why it doesn't seem to bother me one iota that I spent the last almost a full decade alone, so that kind of destroys your theory imo 🤔

I'm sorry you spend so much time alone.

I think I can answer your first objection, assuming I can remember Professor B's foundational neuroscience course materials correctly. Why does the f(n)MRI BOLD signal light up more in the brain areas associated with psychosis for patients more than they do with controls? (For schizophrenia, relevant brain areas could include the prefrontal cortex, cingulate cortex, amygdala, putamen, insula) It's not that the relevant brain areas don't activate in non-psychotic people - it's just that neuronal activity is more pronounced in those regions for psychosis patients during a hallucination. fnMRI is a "contrast" imaging technique, it highlights relative differences in activation between two states. Just because you don't see a voxel highlighted in an fnMRI, does not mean that that area of the brain is inactive. It means that it is less active than it would be whilst performing a task. Seth's controlled hallucination idea can still be accommodated. (Sorry Professor B if I got any of your course materials wrong.) * CoI statement: I'm a believer in a neuroendocrinological mechanism for schizophrenia. Under this theory, MRIs & other imaging methods aren't so useful for schizophrenia as they are for other disorders. Although you'd see brain abnormalities stemming from impaired neural plasticity, they would be only secondary effects because of the underlying cause being at the neurotransmitter/connectome level, and more importantly the affected areas would not be consistent from patient to patient.

"Your brain is a prediction machine." This is my existence.

Really intrigued by the inside outside mode as it relates to our being a part of a larger community consciousness....and also the idea that our perceptions are shaped somewhat along the things we imagine... This tells me how we are breaking the world (selfishness)....but also how we can fix it ( hold good thoughts )

I don't believe I have any medical problems. However...I would like to be a test subject. This to me is amazing.

applying this to the unified field of consciousness is very interesting~

I used to say , “this is one reality with billions of realities walking within it.” Or on it. I dont remember entirely. Was 8 years ago. But every person has their own view and perspective. Each crime is justified and justice is a crime to another.

You were a pretty smart 8 year old.

1 planet, 8 billion worlds.

Well, that was timely. Anil Seth’s book came across my desk today and purely by coincidence I added it to my TBR.

You have Neuralink installed?

@Kate G And, all for the purpose of Google gathering data from our interactions (w/ web, social media, amongst ourselves n w/ It) - to basically replicate the brain n ultimately surpass it, yes?

It's called A.I. algorithms in advertisements & video suggestions... the one triggered the other to appear

@We Are Not Amused I mean, I was chalking it up to mundane things like the fact I work in a library, I use an online TBR and the fact that the algorithm is always listening. 🤷‍♀️

Its called synchronicity... proof of simulation?

In regard to the starlings, isn;t it the same phenomenon that occurred amongst humans on the Millenium Bridge, in London when it began to sway. All of the people began to walk in the same manner. It was a reaction to the environment, collectively as the starlings are reacting to the environment, collectively. I am not a scientist, just a thought...

Thank you very much, "The Royal Institution", for sharing this video. I personally find it very instructive

The last part is a bit weird though

Reality IS a controlled hallucination, BUT the key to understand it is Who controls it. The function of mass hallucination is a shared experience, a vital part of any group activity and if demolished will cause a multitude of disbanned realities and individual loneliness and even mass panic.

Consciousness cannot specifically require carbon, as you're getting towards with the flock of birds, it's about the high level stuff not the low level. Neural networks can be recurrent, include memory cells/neutrons, be biased towards curiosity seeking and focus behaviours, skip layers or even not use a layered structure, and be discrete or approximately continuous. The basics behind the neural network also apply with systems such as the MCTS and simulated annealing, even to some extent many different kinds of Cellular Automata such as some simple ones that preserve physical conservation laws such as conservation of matter.

This way of looking at consciousness needs to be explored further. In medicine, some ailments may be caused or made worse by our brains making the wrong predictions. Think of high blood pressure as a response to stress. And in designing our world, especially user interfaces. Help the brain make predictions to make a UI more usable, and the humans using it more productive and happy while using it. We could do much more with this knowledge.

GREAT!! BUT!! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.

Thank you for taking us on this journey

GREAT! BUT! Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!

It strikes me as utterly bizarre that our most direct experience of reality...of our own brains...if regarded as being 'subjective', yet stuff we have no direct experience of whatever but merely infer...is regarded as 'objective'. I'm not surprised we cannot figure out what consciousness is when we cannot even get the cart behind the horse.

Scientists are aware of this problem but I read in a Stephen Hawking book that they have to choice but to work as if there is an objective reality.

So Excellent Presentation !!! Thank YOU so much !!!

Would recommend Paul Nunez' "The New Science Of Consciousness." A well credentialed neuroscientist and physicist he explores the physical mechanisms of the brain in detail and comes to the conclusion that the actual processes could function precisely as they do without consciousness, if the person next to you were an unconscious golem, you would never know, and have no conceivable way to find out. He concludes that the mechanics of the brain, the physics of the brain, cannot give rise to consciousness. Of course I drastically oversimplify.

Our brain is literally converting external inputs to create images and memories of which some can be false. One must wonder what came first The brain or the code that wrote the buildingblocks for having a brain

@Dimension Observer do we NEED a reason?

@Nick Kinney Exploding stars We are made out of chemical processes. But if it's random Does that mean that we are here for no reason? Or are we created by nature to do work for the planet? Like a bee that is polinating flowers

​@glenemma1 a few places actually. the evolution of cells, the Darwinian nature of useful processes in nature, the interaction between chemicals like amino acids at random, because as we all know if enough random actions take place for long enough, eventually youll begin to see patterns in what would have been a completely random system. shuffle up a deck of cards and youll get random nonsense. shuffle it up for 100 million years and youll eventually start gettings pairs and suits even.

@Nick Kinney Where did the code come from?

@Nick Kinney that’s is interesting, never looked it that way which is certainly possible, but in the end we are observing be it sedimentary rocks or meteors from space. We are the ones measuring it, isn’t it?

I'm autistic. I know when I'm having a hallucination due to medication. I know it's a hallucination and I know it's not right immediately. I also remember all my dreams even from childhood.

I remembered my dreams alot as a child and recall them months later. I wrote many down.I would sometimes have dreams about my town they had an Ed Burton style. Once I learned I could fly i would remember in other dreams that i could. Heights towers aerials pylons elevators that could go different directions and rotate. Sometimes I would re visit places I went in other dreams. Sometimes I would be curious go wandering around labyrinthine suburbs going through people's front door out another see what's there a winding path to another home. Occasionally my brain would lag rendering creating the new room

I waved at you in that super market dream but you kept walking

When I look at individual parts of a system, their purpose is not know, neither how they can come together to give me something meaningful. Yet when they do come together, multiple shapes come together to create a new one which has properties of its own that none other part had. The consciousness is another such thing, that will become clear once we understand the pysical processes, even it may appear that we wont because consciousness, yet we will because this analogy must hold true.

@Meditation Man420 The problem with Panpsychism is that it is yet to propose a viable, cogent explanation that explains how Matter's "fragments of consciousness" become unified into "One Consciousness"...

@Glyne Martin There is a theory called panpsychism which proposes that all matter has basic consciousness

GREAT! BUT! Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!

@Apsteronaldus it's not just a question of emergence. Weak emergence happens in nature all the time. The question surrounds the viability of the idea of *Strong Emergence.* This idea of emergence is the only way consciousness can arise from a collection of fundamental non conscious elements. Strong Emergence never happens in Nature, so this makes this hypothesis more than very unlikely....

So your assumption is emergence, which is one of multiple options. But yes there will always be some kind of emergence of a whole out of parts, if it will fully explain conciousness is not a given though

"We made the body, not the other way. We made it cell by cell. The body is the honeycomb and we are the bees." -Rumi

Consciouseness is neither wooly nor elusive, but what we are. I see many many science and theoretical channels on youtube, all trying really to address, just who we are and where we came from. When I was quite young, I too had all these questions. I did come to the conclusion that the mind was too small to understand something so vast as to how everything came about. I used to say to colleagues and friends, how can I stop thinking? and was told, it's ok, you're just creative, or something like that, but I knew it was something much deeper, I knew that I was not in control, and I desparately wanted to be quiet inside. I was so fortunate to a little later, be shown, that inside me is a beauty, a quiet place, this was my true self, the me that was me before I was christened, the one that looks out of my eyes and percieves. I was shown a light within, so beautiful that it blows thoughts away like the sun blows away the darkness. For once in my life I was able to be still, and feel a love within me, without having to use a trigger from this world. The most beautiful thing is that it is always there, every moment. What I have been shown is the infinite part of me, where I have come from, and where I shall return, pure infinite consciouseness, pure love. Science will not find it with the mind, because the mind divides, only will the heart embrace the whole, only with the heart one can find the true self. It is not theory, it is not religion, it is not meditation, it is real, it is within us with every breath, we just need to know where to look, it is home, it is where we all need to be.

Is that so called ENLIGHTMENT experience ?

I was so comfortable this morning, woke up a few times after completing a few orders. Then around 6am. Reality kicked in. 😊

Great update on his work!

This seems so more relevant today with some people in positions of power blocking out reality and seeing their own reality. It goes all the way from my deceased uncle who had dementia and needed certain stimuli to become the person he was before, to mass murderers.

I noticed I don’t remember my dreams lately unless I wake up around 3 am and fall back to sleep . The second round dreams are vivid big time.

Some people purposefully wake themselves in the middle of the night then go back to sleep. They do this so they can lucid dream or astral project. It's actually a practice that's called 'back to sleep'. That's why your dreams are so vivid because your mind is in a semi-awake state and your body is sleeping.

@austin zeagler not true, I smoke heavy before bed and always dream and I remember my dreams to .

Yeah same as when you wake up in the morning half asleep and go back to sleep but not a deep sleep but where you just borderline sleeping and you can jump back into dreams but much more vividly

@USAF 32nd FG I journal them but many times I am aware that I am dreaming. I did nothing, I just started to think about me more often and to analyze my thoughts. If I wake up, no matter what hour it is, I can go back to a certain dream simply because I want to be in that dream. I remember an image from the dream and I instantly fall asleep and start that adventure. I can access parts of my dreams even when I am awake. I can feel them there, inside of me.

That's true for me too!

at the very beginning with the room changing, I went back 3 times trying to see it change and finally screenshot it and realized they only put the final image up in the video! haha So it never changed for us watching on youtube.

Seth speaks so eloquently it’s actually crazy

Wow! A REAL musician advises his book! Then it must be a very GOOD book! And he must be a REAL GOOD scientist!

Nice lecture, ty for the content. 🙂

interesting question... the answer : yes of course it is. same with dreaming in a much different context. then there is lucid dreaming.... anyone who has had the ability to lucid dream can attest to how awesome it can be... 💯

GREAT! BUT! Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!

Great explanation of free will.

I can imagine being in a park on a pleasant, sunny day. There are people, dogs, birds, squirrels, flowers, and bees in the park. I take in the scene with my eyes, nose, ears, and touch. My brain processes the information into an integrated whole, a pleasant sunny day in the park. If I talk to the other people in the park, they have processed their sensory information and have come to the same conclusion as to where we are and what it is like. And if I observe the other creatures, their behavior is consistent with my observaions, they are aware of the people and other creatures around them, and can interact with them in ways that make sense. Our senses, though imperfect, are made to give us knowledge of the actual world around us, and so are the senses of all living creatures. We are living in a shared reality, we are all seeing the same things.

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it is simply what you make of it, it doesn't really matter, you still have to get up every day and go to work. If you can go through life in the positive your life is good, simple, it doesn't have to be complicated.

my perception changed so much these past 3 years I dont even feel like im on the same planet or place anymore, I wake up sometimes and question if I am dead because of this, seems like people are stuck in a loop now, and dont change or react differently, just the same, things even look different, before it seemed like my perception & view was more wide and broad, now seems pinpointed and more weird.

Why do you think?