Explaining consciousness and the measurement problem with scientific ‘panpsychism’

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1. I got in trouble discussing this the other day, so I will try to keep it simple. If a particle had some base level of consciousness, how would that effect the double slit experiment. I'm not ruling out panpsychism, but what I will say is that Many Worlds interpretation has a very solid answer for the observer effect, and I think that makes the most sense, whether consciousness is a fundamental part of the universe or not. I'd like further clarification, because I am trying to understand why we might rational believe that this exists on a particle level. If our minds and bodies are complex systems composed of many consciousness… Than what would the threshold level for a system becoming aware be?

2. I can tell that you are very intelligent so I was hoping for more scientific based conclusions and not a purely subjective conclusion. You are right that it is difficult to answer the measurement problem however it might be possible to use the observations of life to make hypothesizes that best fit the questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2iCdjkyrqk

3. How can you justify the proposition that consciousness is a property of all matter when it has only been identified as a result of a complex network of neurons? Also, you speak of consciousness being a ‘switch’ rather than a spectrum where humans are more conscious than other animals (primates). Are you referring to the first point in the evolutionary timeline at which any degree of consciousness is produced? If so, why would this be an irrational belief? To make this claim, you’d be making the continuum fallacy. Another example of this fallacy is this: Imagine grains of sand in a bag. I can lift the bag when it contains one grain of sand. If I can lift the bag with X grains of sand, then I can certainly lift a bag with X+1 grains of sand (as it would be absurd to believe that adding a single grain of sand would make it too heavy to lift i.e. a switch from liftable to unliftable ‘like magic’). Therefore I can lift an infinite number of sand grains.

4. Make videos shorter, so that unwanted things eliminates

5. With current science we can explain the sum of the parts that comprise the human brain and why it is so extraordinary compared to all other life on Earth whom supposedly evolved at the same rate and time. If that's so why does only one lifeform on Earth have self awareness that seems millions of years ahead intellectually compared with every other life on Earth? Is it possible we are a freak of nature and evolution speeding ahead at a much faster pace than science tells us? Yeah…but it seems to me consciousness is a sum much greater than its biological parts as science cant explain how this happens. This is the great mystery of the universe…not the hunt for some obscure particles that influence our universe

6. I am very disappointed with the quality of the material in this video. This appears to be very well presented speculation rather than a logical and scientific discussion. Evolution is mentioned many times which is an area of research in its infancy, since no-one has demonstrated how even the simplest organism consisting of e.g 500 functioning genes can appear in the lifetime of the universe from random experimentation. Consciousness has no scientific explanation which is probably down to the fact that we don't know very much about how our universe works because no scientist can definitively tell us whether our universe was created or not. If it was and by an undetected being then this is a game changer.

7. If you say "awareness is a basic property of the universe", I don't think that has any meaning. Unless you define what consciousness or awareness is, how can it be a basic property of anything ? I don't have anything against pansychism, I just don't have a conceptual model in my head that would make sense of it unless I just assume it's a substance of some kind. However, what sort of substance makes all other substances known ?

8. consciousness needs physical stimulation…… the energy of the sun causes consciousness.. consciousness is energy…. the brain lets electric charges …consciousness is the electricity….. electricity is light and heat and vibrating matter ……so is the light of the sun… the sounds in music nature and socializing movement of the earth … friction and other stimulants are what causes consciousness….. the planet has concentrated energy and movement .. the entire planet is conscious… it creates the true collective conscious.. the Akashic curtain… then the social collective conscious is the connection humans have similar to how cells in bacteria behave……….

9. 100.001% realism felt by me through the ' talk' as the same does cause the formation of the next instant of universe's life and takes all of us up to the next 'point of time' in our life , which used to depend upon our keenness to know further on the way ahead during our ' voyage to knowledge' essential to have the glimpse pf our self-soul (the reasoning faculty). Shailendra Sharma

10. Truely brilliant Videos.

11. and who are you who is explaining consioius…..this is where you westerners don't know what else is beyond…you westerners are really really stupid peoples…you should read vedas and upnishads for real answers…

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