You're doing a fabulous job, leading this interview. Wow! Thanks to both of you! (For nothing, of course.) 😉
@DrJamesCookeКүн бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
@echo-trip-1Күн бұрын
Is Kastrup a version of Castro? I recognize his accent as Brazilian
@DrJamesCookeКүн бұрын
I believe he's Dutch with Portuguese heritage, I can imagine that mix sounding like Brazilian
@AnthonyL0401Күн бұрын
Dr James sounds like Bodhipaksa
@AnthonyL0401Күн бұрын
21:00 Excellent distinction by the Dude -- choosing to regulate is more than just redirecting to mindfulness of thought etc
@DrJamesCooke4 сағат бұрын
@AnthonyL0401 The Dude abides, and regulates when necessary
@AnthonyL04014 сағат бұрын
@@DrJamesCooke I wondered if you'd catch my reference. Haha.
@hansenmarc2 күн бұрын
Fascinating interview! I love hearing about the Bayesian brain hypothesis and the free energy theory of consciousness. 57:01 great point about how human thought processes can often be suboptimal and not arrive at conclusions that would be predicted by Bayesian computation if we assume correct priors. 1:00:57 meditation and psychedelics lessen the contribution of the more general models/priors in the hierarchy
@DrJamesCookeКүн бұрын
I think you're going to enjoy my upcoming book in that case!
@hansenmarcКүн бұрын
@@DrJamesCooke I’m looking forward to it!
@Corteum2 күн бұрын
Are they really race riots? I thought they were more political/cultural riots, where the UK govt is not listening to its own citizens and is creating more problems by bringing people in who are not integrating well into UK society?
@phoenixdoyle77443 күн бұрын
If awareness is the space in which experience is happening, I've always wondered what happens to the awareness once the body is destroyed, how does the awareness lock itself onto a new body? Does our body and awareness share the same co-ordinates, like on indras grid, and once a new body system shares the same co-ordinates, does the awareness/space capture the next body for experience? I do believe that awareness/nothingness and physical reality are interdependent on eachother to manifest. I mean it feels like my awareness is locked onto my physical body, or is it my body that is giving the illusion of having a stable awareness?
@phoenixdoyle77443 күн бұрын
It's funny that evolution eventually leads to beings that ponder these things and is therefore one of the many points/stages of existence.
@andyfoofoo57593 күн бұрын
As an old hat this is old hat. Its called growing up.
@wzupppp4 күн бұрын
How many sessions on average does one need to process trauma?
@apparentbeing5 күн бұрын
Masters: be still and quiet We: let's talk about nothing
@secretplans12 күн бұрын
Can’t wait for my pre-order to arrive 😁😁😁
@carloscontreras363313 күн бұрын
Hi. Thanks.
@hansenmarc13 күн бұрын
The more I learn, the more I think that everything we do is driven entirely by our subconscious and consciousness exists only to provide our subconscious with a predictive and introspective model of our own body and actions and how others interact with it. Somehow that model of a self in charge of our body must have provided a reproductive advantage to early hominids. Maybe because they could explain their behavior even if those explanations were completely inaccurate. This viewpoint is also supported by Gazzaniga’s split brain experiments where the left hemisphere of the brain comes up with (i.e., “confabulates”) explanations for what the body is doing even if those explanations are completely wrong. For example, show a message to the right hemisphere asking the person to leave the room and the left hemisphere will explain that the subject suddenly decided to go into the hall and get a soda from the vending machine.
@hansenmarc14 күн бұрын
Probably the most intelligible conversation with Jim Newman I’ve ever heard. Thank you.
@jacey196314 күн бұрын
I must buy this book...it sounds great!
@jacey196314 күн бұрын
Great interview!
@DrJamesCooke14 күн бұрын
Order The Dawn of Mind now! www.amazon.com/Dawn-Mind-Matter-Became-Conscious/dp/1633889920
@mintakan00314 күн бұрын
What a refreshing interview! Does not defy "common sense" (esp. for those with some kind of scientific background). Non-dualism does have its value. But it can be over-extrapolated into claims about reality (as I've seen too many times, proponents have done). Also, Buddhism (some version of it) seems to be precocious, at least paradigmatically, on what maybe going on. Though the modern details of how things occur, may differ from the traditional understandings (given what was known at the time).
@nanceenurse15 күн бұрын
This life is the dream.
@patrickstar858517 күн бұрын
Its always baffaled me how alcohol is legal but not psychedlics x.x trully idiotic
@technatezin17 күн бұрын
They fry your brains and give you psychosis.
@hansenmarc19 күн бұрын
One of the difficulties in discussing the self or ego is the many ways in which the terms are defined. Most dedicated spiritual seekers seem to transition through several self identities. Initially, almost everyone believes their self to be the combination of their thoughts, body, history, and desires. After some self inquiry it might seem that the self is reduced to a small homunculus inside the head that is the thinker of thoughts and the doer of actions. Eventually, it can seem that one’s true self is pure awareness. For some who persist, it might be realized that there can be no experiential distinction between awareness and the contents of awareness. The sense of awareness was itself yet another arising in awareness. The self was nothing more than a bundle of thoughts and sensations that must be continually recreated.
@hansenmarc20 күн бұрын
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -Carl Sagan
@RoadToXyon21 күн бұрын
❤💖 🌈🍄☮️
@hansenmarc23 күн бұрын
I love the discussion about what’s been called the awareness trap. When I began self-inquiry, “who am I?” became “what am I?” when it was realized that the sense of self wasn’t a person. Still without an answer, the question became “where am I?” Am I behind my eyes looking out at the universe and controlling this body? The next question was “am I?” Is this sense of awareness or consciousness that’s seemingly separate from the contents of awareness really me, or is it another thought? Can awareness ever be completely separate from the contents of awareness? If not, then can I even be awareness? Isn’t it the case that the sense of self as pure awareness is just another arising in awareness?
@hansenmarc23 күн бұрын
Beautiful neuroscience explanation of how the DMN creates the self. Thank you 🙏
@lookmagazine266724 күн бұрын
Interesting….how matter became conscious….implying that matter precedes consciousness….my question would be, how can matter, or anything, be considered existent in the absence of consciousness? Guess I’ll have to read it!
@DrJamesCooke24 күн бұрын
Haha, I guess so! "Existent" is in interesting way of putting it, there's some nuance to the answer that I can't unpack here. I don't argue for a naive materialism though so I don't think you'll be disappointed.
@Tasmanaut25 күн бұрын
brother, DUDE! Everything you are both saying, regarding an initial awakening experience that 'happened' earlier in life, when you were a not really some archetypical 'spiritual' seeker, anxious, purely rational, scientific minded etc, literally EXACTLY what 'happened' to me. I was previously a very anxious teenager, a 'radical' atheist and had no intention of seeking any of this sort of 'stuff'. Afterwards, I too sought EXACTLY as you both did to find 'confirmation' from others of this 'experience' not so much from personal gurus IRL but within Buddhist literature, things I could find on the internet etc and it never sought of satisfied me because of the reasons you describe. The path of cultivation that is spoken about is NOT what I had practiced before it 'happened' and I couldn't really rectify how that could be so, and yet intuitively, I KNEW it, that I wasn't wrong or that what had happened wasn't some mistake or false perception, that there was nothing to be attained, reached, sought after etc. And yet, I was very uneasy. To be honest I'm freaked out by this, it still makes me uneasy, I wrestle with it all time and sometimes it doesn't feel 'healthy'. I can't really explain it. I'm only 12 minutes into the video, perhaps you give some advice on this later on Is there anyway I could get in touch with either of you two dudes and just talk to someone? I have met very few people if any that seem to have shared this 'experience' if you can call it that, I'm very lonely at times and sort of really struggle with it. I know that is just more seeking for confirmation, but like, you are describing the EXACT thing! I found this video completely by chance when someone mentioned Jim Newman in a comment and described him as lacking compassion etc in his description of it, that made me curious because it seemed he had upset some people that want to cling to it being pure consciousness, love, light etc, which is at odds with my direct intuitive knowing of what it is, something beyond that duality, grasping only to the 'light' or one half and denying the other.
@ndnd20239 күн бұрын
You can call Jim. His no. on his website. He's pretty good at getting back to you if he doesn't answer immediately. Good luck 😉
@prettysure308526 күн бұрын
Donald : the truth will lead u to death.... Also donald: let me search for d truth and tell u all about it.
@ozzyhouston253526 күн бұрын
LSD didn't make the Manson Family nice people.
@lewiji27 күн бұрын
Will there be an ebook available on release?
@DrJamesCooke27 күн бұрын
Not initially but hopefully shortly after if the hardback sells well.
@Milkshakman27 күн бұрын
I look forward to reading :)
@DrJamesCooke27 күн бұрын
@@Milkshakman hope you enjoy it 😊
@hansenmarc27 күн бұрын
Fascinating. Robert Sapolsky had a very similar experience, immediately followed by the realization that free will was an illusion.
@hansenmarc27 күн бұрын
1:29 There is thinking, therefore consciousness exists.
@paulshelkov795627 күн бұрын
I feel like these ideas of "there is no self, no James" are overused and not really accurate to describe our true self. I'd say the same for ego "death". It's just too negative and self-rejecting to be true -- it doesn't resonate with my heart. And our hearts are surely beyond the limitations of our human identities, and that's my point. It's not that the person doesn't exist, it just doesn't capture you. Yes, it is artificial, but ~you~ are not. ~You~ are real. And I don't mean this cosmic, higher, other you. I mean the you that ~you~ have always meant when you say 'James'. 100% of your sense of self is real. You have never been mistaken when you meant 'I'. However, in the very same breath... you go on past 'I' to say 'I am this person with these tendencies, etc.'. And now you are filtering yourself; it's a lens. It's the pure, real you, that you've always known, expressed as one facet of itself. It's not really false... you are still there... you make up that whole, limited projection. It's just that you are not ~only~ that. You can be mistaken in forgetting that. You can believe you are only these qualities you've labeled James... you can pretend to be inside this box. But really this box is within the whole of you, and that whole of you is that place from which you feel you can say ~I~... am James. There are many angles on this and many ways to explain it. My point is that the language is misleading. When people say great statements like "You don't exist", "Reality is an illusion", "I took 5g and died~"... they aren't always communicating the loving, whole, immortal quality behind it. The real thing must be joyful, exciting, blissful... a relief to know. It's like there is still this overcast of glass-half-empty mentality pervading the spiritual discussion. Even freedom, unity, and infinity are still interpreted as these dire, painful terms like ~death~ and ~nothingness~. And I'm not saying that isn't what people are experiencing. Give me a high dose of mushrooms and I'm probably going to seriously feel like I'm dying too... but that must be because that's the consciousness I'm coming from on this side of the veil... not necessarily the pure thing.
@paulshelkov795627 күн бұрын
In other words... I am all of these things. These ideas, these projections, these perceptions. Poetically we could say... "I am not these things, but they are me." My existence is not within them. Their existence is within me. Flip the script, where consciousness is now primary, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
@sb3104-b8t27 күн бұрын
If its understanding of bias is naive, then its idea of how not to harm humans would be skewed, as well as how to help humans..
@hansenmarc27 күн бұрын
“I think, therefore I am.” -Rene Descartes “I am, therefore I think.” -Karl Friston
@hg-yg4xh28 күн бұрын
In your own words, stick with what science does, offers descriptions and processes and not go any deeper. Maybe it’s deeper than the zeitgeist of science allows.
@harryrogers97728 күн бұрын
Hi James, really excited to read your book. Will it be available in Kindle edition as well? Thank you
@DrJamesCooke28 күн бұрын
@harryrogers977 I believe it'll only be in hardback initially, but hopefully before long!
@heywayhighway29 күн бұрын
Do you have any new kind of insight in this book? Why should I buy it over thousands of other books on the same topic?
@DrJamesCooke28 күн бұрын
@heywayhighway of course, that's why I wrote it 🙂 check out my very early podcast episode on the theory I'm proposing if you're intrigued, or the ep I did half a year back announcing the book deal