The Origin of Consciousness – How Unaware Things Became Aware

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1. Get the Consciousness poster here:
   https://standard.tv/collections/in-a-nutshell/products/in-a-nutshell-consciousness-poster

2. great video! The discord link is broken, can we update that?

3. Channels like this help people to become interested in learning.

4. if matter can not be created or destroyed where did it all come from

5. what if you guys talk about mobile devices or internet.

6. Awwww no more brids?

7. Boy this sure made me hungry..

8. Templeton Foundation? Why am i sensing an Agenda from a far??????

9. I am

10. Thank you for citing the sources IN THE VIDEO (not enough channels do that in my opinion)

11. I'm surprised by the association with the Templeton Fondation. The expert in history and sociology of sciences, Yves Gingras*, thinks that this fondation promote a certain confusion between religion and science. He thinks the dialogue between religion and science is impossible contrary to the Templeton fondation who thinks it's possible and promote it. Gingras thinks that the Fondation promote, in that way, bad science. (* for more info : GINGRAS, Yves, L'impossible Dialogue : sciences et religions , Montréal, Les Éditions Boréal, 2016, 352 pages.)

12. A hilarious load of garbage filled with logical fallacies

13. I know there's spore and knockoffs, but Kurzgesagt animations need to be the campaign of a fun video game

14. wonderweiss from bleach

15. Wiw that got me thinking about life. Also awesone animations

16. Dang the animation. Now I think even animated spider and helicopter thingies look cute :0

17. Can you make a video about Information

18. hi nice works ! Can i suggest a ring world video ? i would love to see one

19. Den Kanal sollte man auch mal in Deutscher Sprache bringen…. ist eine Überlegung wert!

20. Those eyes on the purple guy was cute.

21. Personally i'd define consciousness as being inside of a moment, and being able to stop in said moment, and agree that you are actually in that moment, at that moment, thinking about that moment.
    And then you can move on.

22. great content

23. Quite likely the most ridiculous set of arguments I've ever seen. The narrator avoids the subject of consciousness in favour of sapience and then describes gratification as a motor-level process when relative brain impairment between different species shows that just like in humans it involves a higher level cognition that doesn't even require consciousness but rather just condition and strategy. Also panpsychists don't believe rocks have minds they believe that the only thing that separates you from a rock is your level of awareness brought on by your physical capability. You also failed to mention panexperientialism which mentions that particles do too have awareness and indicates that consciousness goes down to the sub-molecular scale. You also didn't mention newer ideas like quantum-level consciousness and probability-based cognition which are the only theories withstanding in the physical consensus. In fact you didn't even go over consciousness, this was all about specific animal processes. You do know you can give an animal an artificial limb and its intelligence will adapt to that? Neural systems are at their base intelligent and assimilating, but then not all life is neural and say plants are certainly aware and some are physiologically capable of reacting in a nerve-like way. All life is however, characterised with awareness and at some level biological processes indicative of motion in quanta. We could consider crystals alive, but they're all on the low side of awareness as intelligence is the factor that boosts the universal capability of awareness that all matter is capable of depending on its physical structure. It's all mechanical, the way you put this out is almost as bad (if not worse) as arguments towards parapsychological concepts. Sapience, cunningness, intellect, nervous physiology, consciousness and awareness are all different. It's scary that you're allowed to brainwash people with your graphic-pop appeal animations, but anything that is a product of fantastical art aesthetics is the product of psychotic delusion, I believe it's labelled your mindset can be labelled as imaginary "idealism".

24. I think this video mistakes Consciousness for biological creatures just carrying out a program.

25. Am I going crazy or has the style changed slightly? I still like the simple colorful style but it seems like it’s changed. For example the animals seem different then the size of life animals. The marble creature looked different.

26. This video kinda entirely misses the point… hard problem of consciousness anyone?

27. could you make a video about questioning reality, if you haven’t already?
    i ask this because i have derealisation episodes, which make me feel like i’m in a simulation. it’d be amazing to see a video by kurzgesagt on the topic.

28. If you have a gullible brain, it will absorb knowledge like the desert would suck up water, and it does so since it never questions the data that is fed to it. Its mind will become quite large. However, a smart brain takes a different path. This path can lead to trouble. It can for instance figure out how to create consciousness. Think of a computer program that creates conscious minds. One of these conscious minds may want to figure out what consciousness actually is. As it gets closer and closer to understanding consciousness, it is getting closer and closer to the very program in operation that is creating its consciousness in the first place. As a consequence of this, the distance between the two is diminishing, thus the mind itself is shrinking in size, all due to this catch-up.

    Eventually, the mind will be reduced to a small non-stop loop. Fortunately, when this happens to a human being, the rate of neurotransmitter consumption in this loop, exceeds the rate of supply, and so you fall out of the loop. Then you spend every bit of effort that you can, to forget how consciousness works, all to get your mind back to its original size.

29. …amazing work and accurate that's not common.

30. Can you do an episode on epigenetics

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