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Can physics explain consciousness? Start with Descartes, who held the dualistic view that the mind and body are separate, and see how materialists countered that brain processes produce the mind. Then discover what physics has to say about free will, and probe the famous thought experiment involving Schrödinger’s cat. This Free Full-Length lecture comes from the course “Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science”. Find out more and watch the rest of the course FREE when you sign up for a Free Trial at https://www.TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/lp/t2/generic?utm_source=Video&utm_medium=Youtube&utm_campaign=177627
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Perhaps all energy is conscious and the body shapes the consciousness into the soul or mind, does that make me materialist, dualistic or pan psychological
Why not believe in both, the consciousness is solar or chemical energy organized by the biological body, the memory is data recorded through the brain through the 5 senses and after death it transcends the body as a soul or spiritual entity.
Maybe this guy needs to go get a job selling insurance.
Consciousness is music and this lecture warps the 5 sensations.
Nobody thinks, like a recording we regurgitate experience, wisdom is no thing do you re-member, yor first 3 supposed years? no space no time no thing……….its a dream
Of course it cannot, for all explanations are dualistic in nature. Consciousness is whole, and absolute, without description.
Software and hardware. "Lights and Clockwork"….
True we know some things, yet there is more to learn, of course.
Most scientists suffer from what I call the oneness fallacy and employ a reductionist strategy to prove their case. People who support metaphysics's believe in duality. As a Christian I believe everything has a tripartite nature which is suggested in the Bible.
Consciousness comes from the elementary particle called Dust!
Spoiler alert: we don't know and probably won't ever know.
We can't think about us thinking about ourselves!
Consciousness can't study itself..
The individual did not Want to write guacamole, but rather didn't see any harm in doing so when told to, presumably under the impression they were being asked to do so for a reason. This differs from acting like a chicken because the individual will likely feel embarrassed or violated in some way by the act, motivating them to resist the instruction.
However, it is possible that if this was performed with a different student with a different personality type, they may be willing to get in front of the class and act like a chicken, happy to bring entertainment to others without any feelings of embarrassment.
Aside from physical wants such as hunger, thirst, and sleep, most "wants" are external in nature, often social
These lectures on consciousness are like based on a story. A few blind people came in contact with a body of a big elephant. Each blind person touched a part of the body of elephant and described in his own way. Leg as a pillar, tale as a rope etc. etc. The same thing is happening now a days about Consciousness. Has any body tried or put his whole hearted efforts to experience consciousness. Without testing sugar, how one can describe or explain what sweetness is.
many thanks for the wonderfull lecture!
what concers the topic — before trying to understand consciousness we need much better understanding of what is life. life is a very specific physical processes in the universe related with processing of information. earth life is nonlocal — it's not restricted to the size of our planet (or the solar system) — it has a scale of the whole entire observable universe. evolution of life in a form of the world's global living system (Darwinian evolution) is governed by the fundamental laws of physics (life is a game governed by quantum rules) and therefore is fully deterministic. at the same time parts of this single living system can possess certain degrees of freedom to choose their own way of living within very restricted possibilities.
what concerns the Schrodinger's cat — it cannot be separated from the laborant within a laboratory — they are entangled with each other by nonlocal ties as well as deeply tied with the same physical universe which is their common environment in which all earth creatures live. also need to add that there is no such a thing as "quantum state of a living thing" — life is a process, but not a state.
more to add that a cat is a symbiotic animal and by itself represents a complex living system instead of a single organism))
Probably my favorite learning channel….which has the lowest video upload frequency!
Reductionism is an interesting theory, but it is more religion than science. Scientists have every right to contemplate it as a possibility but they have no business asserting it as anything more than a belief. It is in actuality a logical fallacy of an appeal to ignorance.
Physics should should stick to trying to explain physics, where it still has a long way to go in many areas.
A Quantum. The smallest part of the whole, in a single closed system. Then what would this be for our awareness, our consciousness? Can consciousness really be broken down in physical bits and pieces? I doubt that.