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Embark on a captivating journey with “Donald Hoffman’s Theory on Consciousness – The Greatest Mystery in The Universe.” This thought-provoking video delves into the groundbreaking work of cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman, challenging our conventional understanding of reality. Have you ever considered that our senses might be deceiving us? That what we perceive as reality could be an intricate illusion crafted by our brains?
Drawing parallels from historical misconceptions about the Earth’s shape and position, we explore the notion that our sensory experiences might be fundamentally misleading. Hoffman’s revolutionary ideas propose that consciousness, not physical matter, is the fundamental essence of the universe. Our video takes you through a fascinating exploration of how billions of neurons and trillions of synapses construct our visual reality, shaping everything we see.
Discover how Hoffman’s theory intersects with quantum mechanics, suggesting that consciousness itself might influence the nature of reality. Is reality a complex network of conscious agents, each shaping others’ experiences? This video invites you to reconsider the relationship between consciousness, the brain, and the universe, opening up new perspectives on life’s greatest mystery.
Join us as we delve into these intriguing theories, sparking debates and discussions in the scientific community. While critics point out the speculative and challenging nature of empirically testing these ideas, there’s no denying their potential to radically transform our understanding of consciousness and reality. Dive into this intellectual adventure and prepare to have your view of the world challenged!
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A lie
With our limited brains we can not undrstand consciousnes.
However……we are equiped to live it
This seems to proceed from the basis that Galileo is correct, to high speculation. OK, but I think it has very little promise of being comprehensible in terms of consciousness.
“Taste, odours, colours and so on” should include abstract thought.
That all the qualities of the perception are annihilated does not mean that of the causes of those perceptions are annihilated.
This description does not avoid the duality of consciousness and that of which consciousness is aware. It just assumes that they will dissolve with a fundamental discovery. That of which we are conscious is not totally disassociated with "reality". It has some association that allows us to reliably interact with the world. Bit of a problem with the interface analogy and why mistakes are included in the construction by the non-conscious brain. You don’t have an interface with something that doesn’t exist. Why bother constructing the brain in the first place.
Somewhat carried away with Schrodinger’s cat.
My anticipation is that consciousness and that of which consciousness is aware are integrated and it is not one or the other that is fundamental.
its not your brain. I was given a greater mind, I begged God, Mary was speaking to me, they could tell me what to do, give information, show me visions, interpret dreams, I was psychic, I was able to do things I didnt think were possible
Well you have to understand that brain is part of human body that processes information and there are things that have different effects on that process!!!
Food smells what you hear and what you see and what you touch! Everything gets into your blood goes into your brain and has tremendous effects on your speed of thinking, addictions to chemicals in your blood and many different things!!!
You can observe brain as only one organ of human body but you should understand that human body is functioning because blood circulation and what is in blood goes through all organs and has different effects on every organ!!!
Human senses like animals instinct and they not created by brain but by energy that sense and brain observe!!!
I don’t understand where you get those fantasy ideas???
I'm not a scientist but as soon as I heard Hoffmann talking about his theory it seemed self-evident to me and in no need of further explication. 🤷🏼♀️
Donald Trump's Theory on Dumbness – The Greatest Mystery in Florida
Everything. Everywhere. All at once. Sound familiar? That's because nothing is original. Humanity's bane will always be control or a sense of control. Simply let go. Happiness, in human terms, is always at our fingertips.
If someone dies and we recreate the whole process of its original creation from fertilization to birth, atom by atom, would that person be „there“ again?
Are friends and loved ones will keep on living as long as we remember them
Too Many 'THEORIES'
The concepts in this video further strengthened my critical thinking skills and belief in a Creator especially after reading the Quran.
Has someone missed another dose of medication?
GOOD BYE
Je vais TOUS vous TREPANNER.
NO TRANSHUMANISM.
NOWAY.
Consciousness is everything it's pervasive in the universe, but there is a catch, the human brain is a very advance analytical system that readily make a connection with the freely existing consciousness in the universe.
This is why if you can design a machine with enough ability to process and analyze information at the normal proportion, such machine could tarp into the universe and acquire consciousness.
Consciousness, to me, is the universe with its vast network of infinite waves (sound, light, matter, etc.) that can, does, may, and will connect with the brain's billions upon billions of networking neurons called the mind.
8:00 FINALLY you reach the goddamn point of the video.
There’s awake, asleep and the full spectrum of states of mind between awake and sleep. Then there’s dreaming and lucid dreaming. There’s acceptance and avoidance; inquiry and willful blindness – knowing, unknowing forgetting and remembering again. And that’s before lunch . . .
During seizures i have been unconscious for more then 10 minutes and I have no memory of that time while i was unconscious, how is that state different from then when person is dreaming.
Consciousness is a function of morality. Morality is fundamental.
I've heard from sources I respect (Tesla for one) that our purpose on this earth is to discover the relationship between consciousness and energy.
In Hindu philosophy this is called “Maya” which means illusion. That’s what consciousness is
This guy is a con man.
Very interesting, but there is a ‘fundamental’ misunderstanding about what was meant with the four elements. They were (among other things) used as representations of four fundamental ‘qualities’, where water stands for everything liquid, fire stands for warmth (for lack of a better word), earth stands for solid matter, and air stands for all types of gasses. They are in a way fundamental for the world and the universe we live in.
For modern science, fundamental is interpreted as the smallest component, so we keep opening up and spliting things into smaller things so we can look inside, which is good and necessary. But what it does, is show you another surface of something, while it is much less about the ‘fundamentality’ of the quality of it. In the past, a holistic view showed these four qualities as more fundamental than the smaller pieces they were made of, and that view can still offer valuable insights if we truly understand it. Especially if you are searching for consciousness.
I take that back
The new Hoff
are they using AI for some of these images?
I am a physicist and I will explain why our scientific knowledge refutes the idea that consciousness is generated by the brain and that the origin of our mental experiences is physical/biological .
My argument proves that the fragmentary structure of brain processes implies that brain processes are not a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness, which existence implies the existence in us of an indivisible unphysical element, which is usually called soul or spirit (in my youtube channel you can find a video with more detailed explanations). I also argue that all emergent properties are subjective cognitive contructs used to approximately describe underlying physical processes, and that these descriptions refer only to mind-dependent entities. Consciousness, being implied by these cognitive contructs, cannot itself be an emergent property.
Preliminary considerations: the concept of set refers to something that has an intrinsically conceptual and subjective nature and implies the arbitrary choice of determining which elements are to be included in the set; what exists objectively are only the single elements. In fact, when we define a set, it is like drawing an imaginary line that separates some elements from all the other elements; obviously this imaginary line does not exist physically, independently of our mind, and therefore any set is just an abstract idea, a cognitive construct and not a physical entity and so are all its properties. Similar considerations can be made for a sequence of elementary processes; sequence is a subjective and abstract concept.
Mental experience is a precondition for the existence of subjectivity/arbitrariness and cognitive constructs, therefore mental experience cannot itself be a cognitive construct; obviously we can conceive the concept of consciousness, but the concept of consciousness is not actual consciousness.
(With the word consciousness I do not refer to self-awareness, but to the property of being conscious= having a mental experiences such as sensations, emotions, thoughts, memories and even dreams).
From the above considerations it follows that only indivisible elements may exist objectively and independently of consciousness, and consequently the only logically coherent and significant statement is that consciousness exists as a property of an indivisible element. Furthermore, this indivisible entity must interact globally with brain processes because we know that there is a correlation between brain processes and consciousness. This indivisible entity is not physical, since according to the laws of physics, there is no physical entity with such properties; therefore this indivisible entity can be identified with what is traditionally called soul or spirit. The soul is the missing element that interprets globally the distinct elementary physical processes occurring at separate points in the brain as a unified mental experience.
Some clarifications.
The laws of physics describe in principle all the physical processes of which brain processes consist, without defining the system "brain". The brain does not physically exist as a single entity but is only a subjective cognitive construct that refers to a set of arbitrarily chosen quantum particles; actually there is a continuous exchange of molecules with the blood and when and how such molecules start and stop being part of the brain is decided arbitrarily.
Brain processes consist of many parallel sequences of ordinary elementary physical processes occurring at separate points. There is no direct connection between the separate points in the brain and such connections are just a subjective abstractions used to approximately describe sequences of many distinct physical processes. Indeed, considering consciousness as a property of an entire sequence of elementary processes implies the arbitrary definition of the entire sequence; the entire sequence as a whole (and therefore every function/property/capacity attributed to the brain) is a subjective abstraction that does not refer to any mind-independendent reality.
Physicalism/naturalism is based on the belief that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain. However, an emergent property is defined as a property that is possessed by a set of elements that its individual components do not possess; my arguments prove that this definition implies that emergent properties are only subjective cognitive constructs and therefore, consciousness cannot be an emergent property.
Actually, all the alleged emergent properties are just simplified and approximate descriptions or subjective/arbitrary classifications of underlying physical processes or properties, which are described directly by the fundamental laws of physics alone, without involving any emergent properties (arbitrariness/subjectivity is involved when more than one option is possible; in this case, more than one possible description). An approximate description is only an abstract idea, and no actual entity exists per se corresponding to that approximate description, simply because an actual entity is exactly what it is and not an approximation of itself. What physically exists are the underlying physical processes. Emergence is nothing more than a cognitive construct that is applied to physical phenomena, and cognition itself can only come from a mind; thus emergence can never explain mental experience as, by itself, it implies mental experience.
Marco Biagini
یَــٰۤـأَیُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِن كُنتُمۡ فِی رَیۡبࣲ مِّنَ ٱلۡبَعۡثِ فَإِنَّا خَلَقۡنَـٰكُم مِّن تُرَابࣲ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطۡفَةࣲ ثُمَّ مِنۡ عَلَقَةࣲ ثُمَّ مِن مُّضۡغَةࣲ مُّخَلَّقَةࣲ وَغَیۡرِ مُخَلَّقَةࣲ لِّنُبَیِّنَ لَكُمۡۚ وَنُقِرُّ فِی ٱلۡأَرۡحَامِ مَا نَشَاۤءُ إِلَىٰۤ أَجَلࣲ مُّسَمࣰّى ثُمَّ نُخۡرِجُكُمۡ طِفۡلࣰا ثُمَّ لِتَبۡلُغُوۤاْ أَشُدَّكُمۡۖ وَمِنكُم مَّن یُتَوَفَّىٰ وَمِنكُم مَّن یُرَدُّ إِلَىٰۤ أَرۡذَلِ ٱلۡعُمُرِ لِكَیۡلَا یَعۡلَمَ مِنۢ بَعۡدِ عِلۡمࣲ شَیۡـࣰٔاۚ وَتَرَى ٱلۡأَرۡضَ هَامِدَةࣰ فَإِذَاۤ أَنزَلۡنَا عَلَیۡهَا ٱلۡمَاۤءَ ٱهۡتَزَّتۡ وَرَبَتۡ وَأَنۢبَتَتۡ مِن كُلِّ زَوۡجِۭ بَهِیجࣲ ﴿٥﴾
O People, if you should be in doubt about the Resurrection, then [consider that] indeed, We created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then from a clinging clot, and then from a lump of flesh, formed and unformed – that We may show you. And We settle in the wombs whom We will for a specified term, then We bring you out as a child, and then [We develop you] that you may reach your [time of] maturity. And among you is he who is taken in [early] death, and among you is he who is returned to the most decrepit [old] age so that he knows, after [once having] knowledge, nothing. And you see the earth barren, but when We send down upon it rain, it quivers and swells and grows [something] of every beautiful kind.
Science, Sense & Soul: The Mystical-Physical Nature of Human Existence by Casey Blood, Ph.D. (Los Angeles: Renaissance Books, 2001
As Blood describes it, the quantum description of reality puts an end to the age of materialism, in that it requires the existence of nonphysical Mind behind the physical brain.
So it is our essential self, our Consciousness that should affect the universe at this fundamentally probabilistic level. And this is the Observer effect of Quantum Mechanics. It is the consciousness of the human being that chooses one option out of the collection of probabilities represented by the wave function
I am 85 and I remember the instant when I became conscious and started to talk. My mother told me years later that I was nine months old. I have a clear memory of the effect of becoming conscious,. I am working on the memories of those instants and when ready, I will be glad to share my experience with the rest of the world.
Hidden in plain sight
Great exciting video.