Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality? | Episode 1513 | Closer To Truth

40 thoughts on “Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality? | Episode 1513 | Closer To Truth”

1. Man will never stop thinking,wondering,seaking for truth in everything,it takes thousands of years for him to reach a high level of progress and developpement in sciences, mathematics, physics,technologies socialagy,arts. He thought that he will be able to know all the truth but in fact towards the greateness of god of thé creator and towards unaccountable secrets and mysteries of life his success was just a little part from a whole .What is thé importance of a human body without a soul ? nothing ,God gave man a mind to think,understand,research,invent and create all this for a better human existence hé makes him able to understand this materiel World that surrounds him in medecine hé succeeded in decoding every part of the human body but for thé soul it will remain thé unreachable truth.A human being's existence begins with the scene of a baby's birth it remains a mystery ,a little body is born with a determined form,beauty,sex,blood but initially with a soul .Can a computer,Tv,freezer…Be fonctionnel without an electric charge? No it can't thé same thing the soul is the human's body charge linked with a divine power that decides its birth and death . It is in vain to try to study a human's brain because it is more than just a physical part of thé body it is the most important part ,thé soul will pass inside it to emit rayons all over the body instructions or orders for menbers's mouvements ,conscioussness,émotions,thinking…..Subhanallah and thank you.

2. I think… Consciousness is a by product of reality.

3. white man gotta shut the fuck up on conscious..ya had wha 3000 years to get it right..guess what a white god just jumped back into 2pac..the goat got backs

4. miNd oVeR maTTeR ~ wHaT iS rEaL ?

5. No Doubt, Mr. Hoffman has the ability to bring out the best of incredible working mind's as Nobel Laureate, Sir Arthur Penrose: but each mind interviewed is so sure that 'Theirs' is the right theory that it seems that they forget that's what it is a postulate, unproven. Without these great thinkers, though, we wouldn't be were we are today. Truthfully, with all that's been said in this fascinating series, I'm more confused than ever, but in a good way. Thank you

6. I agree fully with Deepak, it is Vedanta perception of reality, consciousness is real; anything else is illusion, remember that the reality is describe by the quantum field theory which shows that everything is vibration in the void….

7. How can Deepak 'conclusively' say that everything outside consciousness does not exist? Hypothetically speaking, if one sets out to check for this "non-existence" using a magical apparatus that just shows 1/0 (1=exists, 0 = does not exist), how do we believe the apparatus reading EVEN if it shows zero (meaning, non-existence)? Isn't the apparatus itself "out there", which according to Deepak does not exist? Secondly, does he really believe that this interview he did does not exist? I think it is easy to say "nothing exists", because one can never disprove that statement. It's just dogma.

8. Everything is light and light is conscious.

9. [Manifestation of Faith in Flesh] https://youtu.be/1n3tnfAZR4c
   What is Faith? Do you truly have faith? To inherit eternal life we must have faith. Don't be deceived anymore but hear what the Spirit of Truth says to the churches to gain true faith!

10. Richard dawkins stamped this charlatan.

11. The problem usually with these topics is that you get 2 polar opposites stance that are both I would say wrong and biased. The first one is the obvious religious and superstitious one of dogma and organized religions. The other is the pseudo science position E.G. reductionist materialism or/and the idea that we don't accept anything beyond what we just know cause the problem with that is that we shouldn't assume that cause something isn't yet or ever measured that we just dismiss necessarily and btw, there are things I guess you can dismiss like unicorns in the mythical sense and other fiction but something like the concept of a deity of some sort, intelligent cause, concept of metaphysical reality(soul, spirit), whatever you wanna call it isn't something that should be dismissed cause while it's true there aren't evidence for these things, there are supportive arguments for them. Humans in general are believing beings. We have mental state, thoughts, abstract and so the idea that the material world is all there is period is likely flawed. Also, what's the point of research if all you research is things that are proven or/and you know already. The whole idea of research are things that are mysterious but hold some merits. Things that are still unknown but we have some spark idea about them. For example, while it's true that materialism doesn't prove nor likely ever will prove that the human brain doesn't create consciousness, the notion that the human brain creates consciousness is increasingly losing popularity and grounds even amongst the scientific community. Sure, the majority and I would argue even the vast majority don't accept the position of consciousness being able to be independent of the brain but at the same time, they know that they themselves can't explain a mechanism in which the human brain gives rise to consciousness. Somethings you should simply dismiss( a triangle square), somethings are definitive: 1+1=2 though I know there are always crazies out there that might say not necessarily but there are a lot of things that falls in that gap in between. That's the fascinating things about mysteries is that they're not settled in either direction. Where do you see the likely hood can be interesting. I personally when it comes to consciousness, I almost certainly believe that it's not created by the brain even more than my belief in a deity even though they can be quite related. I however feel that the question of deity/consciousness being able to be independent of the brain can be more appreciated if projected in essence. Meaning that if you treat deity as the essence of creation regardless of the semantics attached to it(traditional god) and consciousness as the self/I whether you call it soul/spirit but just something metaphysical, you start to appreciate the idea more. Also, to the hardcore scientists who says how the brain affect consciousness, that's true, however the brain tell us what consciousness does and not what consciousness is which is why I don't believe the human brain creates consciousness. It affect consciousness, it's linked to it but it does not create it. It's also unscientific when you think about it cause it implies that the human brain can create something and we know that energy is neither created nor destroyed so I am surprised that materialists scientists don't ask how can the brain create consciousness since they don't even believe the universe was created. I find it weird that hard scientists require a human brain to create consciousness(metaphysical state) but they don't require a universe(physical reality) to be created.

12. Re: the liver pathologist's belief stemming from his zen experiences … Wouldn't true experiences of cosmic consciousness and awareness be eminently and easily provable? If this feeling reflected reality, wouldn't the experiencer have sudden knowledge that he'd have no other way of knowing? For instance, wouldn't someone experiencing this be able to know a banal but hitherto unknown truth, such as the colour of his neighbour's bedroom wall; or a legitimately astounding truth, such as the nearest extraterrestrial body that has some form of life? In the entire verifiable history of Buddhist practise, there hasn't been a single recorded instance of either type of insight; if there were, it would be one of the best-known events in world history. Anyway, I'd like this to be true, but can't help but think that if it were, it's obviousness would manifest itself daily.

13. God free will is ultimate reality

14. … all this is about deals with Being and Doing and Exchanging in order to PLAY the game of COMMUNICATION which obviously is preferable than Doing NOTHING…

15. No one has proved anything………………………

16. Brilliant… After dealing with the metaphysical "poltergeist" I personally can determine by observation that science currently hasn't used the truth of reality to ascertain the truth of reality yet. Tesla anyone… The narrator in this video keeps trying to compare consciousness to reality however the people on this video are trying to explain our consciousness is the beginning to understanding reality, not the end. More than the physical not knowing what more than means.

17. Hi, Robert, let me help you, consciousness illuminate this world and everything in this universe, we cannot quantity consciousness because we are leaving within the self-existence of consciousness. We all are a projection of consciousness like waves created upon the ocean. Sit in one place forget all your academic degrees or borrowed knowledge, just think in an empty mind like you were a child early days, you get all your answer. My email id ghoshroysoumen@gmail.com contact no- 91+9073967022.

18. Ultimate reality has move to La-La Land and can be seen on reality TV and Professional Wrestling during prime time. Our glorious leader of the free world has promised to teach more overpaid weathermen and physicians how to do their damned jobs properly, and do as they're told. Global warming is caused by someone leaving the oven on, and pandemics are caused by too much ice cream.

19. God is a verb

20. 15:25,,think of the conscience as the ocean and we are water drops,, we are all connected and part of the ocean of consciousness, it’s sharing an experience your phone in the AI ,world

21. 8:34 ,if you can get the math to work,, you’d be in the religion that believe we share our consciousness with all others and plant-life too ,,the earth is one big consciousness we share

22. "Consciousness is ultimate reality"..Perhaps they mean: They think consciousness arises from the stuff of reality.

23. Physics tells you a lot about fundamental reality but not how a man made mechanism like a car, a computer, an MRI works without having the engineering schematics and instructions. Of course if you were unaware you could reverse engineer the mechanism and understand how physics at the fundamental level is utilized in the device. Neurons are networks when analyzed in the environments that effect them but there is no explanation how the environment arises or mirrors in them.

24. Language can be used to communicate consciousness more precisely using theology, psychology and logic.

25. Yes

26. The form of consciousness is like an ATOM.
    The form of the universe is like an ATOM to.
    It is a fractal.
    the universe is an orbital inside the consciousness .
    around the center of the universe exists the general.
    consepts are the elements of reason.
    life is an orbital inside the universe.
    deep inside life exists man.

    Reason is a circle around the man.

    Neuroscience maps the machine,
    but ignores consciousness
    because consciousness is the program.

    if the nuclear physicist starts a
    collaboration with the psychologist
    and the psychologist starts a collaboration
    with the nuclear physicist, then we will be
    able to be on the same level as artificial intelligence.

27. We are particle-impaired humanoids. We all grew-up KNOWING that all matter was particles. No particle; no matter. Then Quantum Mechanics suggested (with the assistance from Heisenberg) that particles were made of smaller particles (Standard Model) and our particle-impaired brains responded to the affirmative. We like particles. Then someone had the audacity to suggest that our fuzzy-warm particles, were actually energy waves because of wave characteristic that were generated experimentally – but that didn't bother us. We stilled called them particles! Finally some very strange fellows blew our minds with String Theory and some of us said that made perfect sense. These were not particles at all, but were "invisible" energy strings – which might even produce wave characteristics upon experimentation. But the work-a-day particle physicist returned to the particle collider and smashed matter into (you guessed it} more particles.

    So I ask you. How do particle-impaired humanoids determine Consciousness or for that matter Existence; when we still don't have a clue how all this stuff hangs together? There is more missing than just the God 'Particle' – The Higgs Boson 'particle' did not complete the family portrait as we all hoped it would. Back to the particle drawing board.

28. Subject is good, but there was no need for the crap background music at all. There should never ever be any background music in films or documentaries videos. No background music please.

29. How long will it be before adverts take up almost all of the video ?! I really did not enjoy this video because of the continual interruption of those damn adverts. Anyone agree ?

30. You made a fatal error by assuming that if consciousness is entirely the product of physical brain, then it must not be fundamental. You have to be careful with such lines of reasoning. Just because the particles that make up matter are timeless, space less, and have no mass, this does not mean that matter is timeless, spaceless, or has no mass. Just because those particles are made up of nothing, does not mean they are nothing.

31. Please interview Swami Sarvapriananda …on Conciousness ,he is based in California..

32. the question "is consciousness ultimate reality" is largely a pseudo or fake question. the answer is clear-cut: consciousness is the creation of a complex device called brain and can/will be fully explained with physical laws discovered so far. frankly speaking, these interviewees are crackpots and fraudsters. it's fun though.

33. The truth can only be known trough revelation. Science only has theories. Your body is your conscience. There are three levels to the cosmic reality. 'Suppreme" "Ultimate" "Absolute" . Understand who may!

34. Isn't what Chopra saying essentially correct even on terms congruent with the current understanding of Qauntum physics? Unless I'm misunderstanding, all Chopra is claiming is that, how we comprehend "reality" is entirely necessarily and absolutely mediated, ordered and constructed by sense data which, in turn, is "realised" / "interpreted" / "revealed" in Consciousness? If so, how does that differ in essence from contemporary theory in physics that posits "reality", at core, as fundamental field fluctuations thereafter generating everything we eventually perceive – dependent on HOW we are able to perceive – as the physically existent?

    If my take is correct then, surely, both Chopra's views and the current "schema" of physics are in accord. In this sense, the use here of the term "illusion" is emotive. Quite simply, both Chopra and the physicists seem to be saying that: reality is not, at base, how we perceive it to be as, how we perceive it to be, is, in a sense, "revealed" to us in a necessary given manner, purely by the mediation of our sense data as "translated" by our consciousness.

    In a Platonic sense isn't what they are both talking about, the distinction between noumena and phenomena? Aren't they both saying that the mechanism for this action has something in common with the Kantian catagories?

35. I lost respect for Robert. Because, he isn't being genuine and his bias and conditioning shows clearly. He is conditioned to not ask for evidence of emergence of consciousness from laws of physics. According to him – "may be it isn't possible" – to produce that kind of evidence. However, people like Hoffman, who have at least proven Consciousness is fundamental, should stop researching further to prove Consciousness gives rise to the Physical. Meanwhile, materialist "believers" should get a free pass without any burden of proof.

    Come on! What a materialist. The show should be called "Closer to my Truth".

36. When Chopra comes on, I turn off.

37. YESt it IS!

38. Where is the evidence?

39. You are the Universe.
    Deepak said so.
    Qualia
    His book "You are the Universe"?

40. Episode 1513! The best of all! Thanks for that Robert! Great!

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