Arvin Ash
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REFERENCES
Quantum consciousness https://youtu.be/bqk1oL42r5s
When AI became Self Aware https://youtu.be/afIuJpZNCVA
Is consciousness God? https://youtu.be/7bhFvGgKQp4
CHAPTERS
0:00 Why does matter become aware?
0:47 What is consciousness (scientific perspective)?
1:52 WHERE is consciousness?(Scientific perspective)?
4:40 Is quantum mechanics at the root of consciousness?
6:45 The reductionist approach
7:17 “I think therefore I am”
9:22 Three choices for how consciousness emerges
10:39 Penrose and Hameroff idea of entanglement link to consciousness
13:02 Matthew Fisher’s idea of nuclear entanglement
15:00 The “Hard Problem” of consciousness
16:25 Solipsism
18:47 Scientific basis of Solipsism
20:27 Is reality objective or subjective?
21:03 Are we in a simulation?
22:45 Are Ais conscious?
25:05 Panpsychism
26:25 Julio Tononi’s scientific definition of consciousness
27:55 Could the universe be conscious through black holes
29:20 Does the universe need to be conscious?
31:33 What explains the fine tuning of the universe?
32:30 Where are we?
SUMMARY
Consciousness is one of the deepest mysteries in modern science. It shapes every thought, sensation, and experience we have—yet despite major advances in neuroscience and physics, we still don’t understand why matter should ever become aware. Is consciousness simply what the brain does, or could it be something more fundamental, built into reality itself?
One leading scientific approach is to locate consciousness within the brain. Some researchers point to specific regions, such as the claustrum, as potential “control centers” that integrate information into a unified conscious experience. This view suggests that consciousness is a physical process emerging from neurons, synapses, and brain activity. While this explanation grounds consciousness in biology, it doesn’t make it any less remarkable—it simply means it may be a natural, rather than supernatural, phenomenon.
#consciousness
But even if consciousness arises from the brain, the brain itself operates according to the laws of physics. This raises a deeper question: could consciousness depend on quantum processes? Some scientists, like Roger Penrose, have proposed that quantum mechanics might play a role in generating conscious experience and even free will. However, this idea is controversial. Critics argue that the brain is too warm and noisy for delicate quantum effects to survive. Alternative proposals, such as nuclear spin mechanisms, attempt to address this issue, but none have been experimentally confirmed. More importantly, even if quantum processes are involved, they still don’t explain the “hard problem” of consciousness—why physical processes give rise to subjective experience, or qualia.
This leads to a philosophical challenge: how can we know that other minds exist at all? The idea of solipsism suggests that only your own consciousness can be known with certainty. Science can measure brain activity and behavior, but subjective experience is only accessible from the inside. This creates a fundamental limit—consciousness cannot be directly observed from the outside, making it difficult to fully explain using objective methods.
Taking this even further, some theories propose that consciousness is not just produced by brains but is a fundamental feature of reality itself. This idea, known as panpsychism, suggests that consciousness may exist at all levels of the universe. In this view, the cosmos might not just give rise to conscious beings—it might, in some sense, be conscious.
In the end, consciousness may be rooted in physical processes, but it also raises questions that extend into physics, philosophy, and cosmology. Until we understand how mind, matter, and time fit together, consciousness remains one of the most profound and unresolved mysteries in science.
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That 2014 claustrum case study was with just one person but a 2019 case study with 5 people found the opposite, none of them lost any consciousness or awareness. So then what does that seem to indicate?
God is the source of our Concieseness and that settles it. I am a math/ physicist and thoroughly enjoy your program. Thank you very much.🎉🎉
What ? I thought science had all the answers!!!! 😂 cant gives definite answers if you don't know. Cant find evidence doesn't mean there is nothing there. How farking dumb are people
Qualia – why different for each of us if consciousness is external? Chalmers uses confirmation bias to proceed.
Free will – should be defined whenever we say we do or don’t have it. It’s a gradient. If it’s “the ability to make decisions without coercion,” then we have to deal with gradient of coercion and whether anything but physical constraint is definitive. If you put a gun to my head and tell me to do something, I still have the choice of not doing it, thus risking death… it’s still a choice.
Being subject to quantum decisions doesn’t seem meaningful in free will, it’s just an unpredictable form of “coercion from nature.”
To the extent that we have free will, it’s a problem for external-consciousness proponents, because it’s happening in us individually. It’s not an additional problem for materialism because it could be just a subset of the emergent properties of electric and chemical actions.
Brain as receiver of consciousness?
If the brain is just a receiver of consciousness, why aren’t we all thinking almost the same thing? We don’t even do that when we hear the same political speech, for example.
All the “receiver” idea does is kick the can down the road to where we have even less ability to explain consciousness.
NONSENSE !!
Think harder
Concious is your senses being aware of your own thoughts/surrounding. what you see/project infront of you and how you understand it in your way of perceving out your senses/thoughts, aka your awarness/wisdom/education, what you learned yourself or in school, how has education not been completed, everything should be known about the human mind and body by now lol
Most people mistake consciousness for awareness.
The deepest mystery is how Arvin Ash manages to fit all of this in mere 33:33 min, he is probably a secret interface of a conscious universe trying to further our understanding of how precious life is!😉
Hi…. I'm Daen Dark-Light… I'm a narcissist.
Nice to meet you.
Couldn't galaxies communicate via entanglement
Mathematics is the abstract science of numbers, quantity, space, and structure, exploring patterns and relationships through logic. It is both a foundational tool for understanding reality—used in science, engineering, and daily life—and a field of study focusing on abstract concepts, axioms, and proofs.
While the above is 100% correct, is does not answer the big question, where did Mathematics come from? The reply may be: Mathematics originated in prehistoric times through basic counting and became more complex as time went on, as more uses were found. This is really telling about the history of Mathematics, but not where it came from. All Mathematics comes from the human mind.
Mathematics and the brain: "Mathematics is deeply embedded in the human mind, supported by specialized parietal and prefrontal brain networks that handle numerical processing. Humans possess an innate "number sense" for small quantities (1–4), which evolves through cognitive development and culture into complex mathematical thought, utilizing working memory, visual imagery, and conceptual metaphors." From National Institutes of Health Ext. Link
"The brain has a regions for Mathematical thinking engages a "fronto-parietal network," where the prefrontal cortex handles control, arithmetic logic, and short-term memory. While math uses symbolic logic, the neural processes for mathematics are distinct from language comprehension. Gifted individuals show more efficient, localized brain activity for familiar tasks and enhanced, broader activation for complex problems. High-level mathematical ability is strongly associated with superior working memory, long-term memory, and spatial visual imagery. Neuroscience uses mathematics to model the brain itself, including understanding how neurons, which are far too numerous for simple observation, interact to form thoughts and map memories." By Bobby Azarian, PhD in neuroscience, June 9, 2022 Ext. Link
The amazing point of these discoveries in math and the brain is that the parts of the brain used for advanced Mathematics have been present in the human brain for thousands of years, long before any advanced Mathematics was developed! These are brain cells that cost the human body energy and heat, a cost that gave no benefits until thousands of years later!
The still bigger question is, why is there advanced Mathematics?
The Great Connection!
Human Mind – Mathematics – Laws of Physics – The Universe
1) The Human Mind/Brain has the hardware to do Avdance Mathematics (from the start).
2) Avdance Mathematics are able to discover and understand the Laws of Physics. See Laws of Physics page
3) The Laws of Physics are able to describe the operation of much of the Universe.
4) The Space-Time Mathematics made by Human Minds discover the Universe (its space and time dimensions) have a beginning. See Space-Time page
5) One of the Laws of Physics is the Law of Cauality. (see below)
6) The Law of Causality states that every effect has a specific, adequate cause; nothing happens by chance or without a cause. It is a foundational principle of science and philosophy, requiring that cause and effect are linked, with effects being less than or equal to their causes.
7) The only Holy Book to have a God, described as able to operate inside and outside and before the Universe (extra-dimensional), is the God of the Bible. See Space-Time
Is Mathematics the language God invented so we could discover God in Creation.
Proven math is direct evidence, that is, evidence that stands on its own to prove a fact without requiring inference, such as a confession, security camera footage of the act, or an eyewitness account.
If you think the Bible is a list of dos and don'ts, you have not read the Bible and do not understand the Creator of the Universe, who has vast love for you. In God's "eyes" is love and forgiveness for every human.
We believe we've developed a stronger theory of consciousness than the current leading theories. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTMgHKaUHU0&t=680s
32:59
This should have been a tier list
4:54
A quantum field with a wavefunction in Hilbert space can account for Free Will
That's the implication…
Sure 😂
This is not even remotely falsifiable and it does not make a testable prediction
A conscious mind can’t be a product of unconscious universe.
is there any possibolity that the dark wnwry might be the conciousness it's self???
IMHO, consciousness is the mother of all fields.
The warm wet ideas of Tegmark fail to comprehend H tunnelling systems linking spacetime to atomic theory.
Tested the physics of temporal domains associated with memory formation and recall and seen first hand the time domain through use of hydroxyl radical oxidative memory breakdown to release trauma from childhood.
I will watch this again, it is that interesting.
Reality is subjective because the tools we use to perceive and interpret it are subjective. That's the conclusion I've reached after years trying to figure out how reality gets constructed in the human mind. I'm not claiming objective reality doesn't exist. I'm saying our subjective interpretations become objective in effect once we act on them. Whatever we believe is real, we treat as real, and that belief drives real consequences.
I think this happens through a cascade, emotional, biological, memory, sensory inputs all firing together, in different intensities for each person, which is why the experience feels so unique from one mind to the next. The subconcious and conscious mind interact throughout this cascade, not seperately.
I've been building a framework to understand how my own mind works, using AI models since 2023, first as a thesis, now as a full dissertation, to reverse engineer what was already in my head intuitively. I have no formal background in neuroscience and only a little in the social sciences. But my approach has been: stay skeptical of AI sycophancy, cross check across models, and keep testing against content like this. It's not the whole truth. But it's a lot closer than where I started.
Consciousness is economics,god is food and shelter