Eran Zaidel - How Brain Scientists Think about Consciousness

[@Dion_Mustard]

"trying to find consciousness in the brain is like trying to find music inside the radio console".. i rest my case.

[@kelpkelp5252]

What case?

[@Spaghetti-is-gross]

@@kelpkelp5252 A suit case maybe. Those things can get pretty heavy.

[@keithgreenan1850]

Or the TV program inside the physical structure of the TV

[@kokokokow1760]

Well wouldn't be that hard to figure it out. Once you understand the radio is tuned to a frequency, you track the electromagnetic signal to the nearest antena. Then you investigate the antena and you figure out it's a repeater for another signal. You track down the signal to the source and you found the broadcast studio. The radio analogy is bad though. With this analogy you are assuming the consciousness resides outside the brain. This hypothesis contradicts current evidence. There is no evidence consciousness is being mediated by some kind of field and recived by the brain. On the contrary we've found we can alter consciousness by physical intervention, electromagnetic fields and chemical substances. If you take drugs and loose the notion of self boundary, it's like the radio inflencing the broadcast studio. If the radio can directly influence the broadcast studio, then maybe the broadcast studio is directly in the radio. And why separate such an object into radio and broadcast station in the first place? We can safely say everything is in the radio/music player/brain.

[@Dion_Mustard]

@@kokokokow1760 there is evidence of non local consciousness. plenty out there. start by reading dr pim van lommel consciousness beyond life. good luck.

[@lowkeytheology]

This channel is insane with the amount of content and quality 👍👍

[@sgs261]

Absolutely brilliant series. The presenter is a total star - asks great questions, is genuinely interested, has good humour, and helps us all by restating, clarifying and simplifying. A great contribution to mankind I would say!

[@alittax]

I agree! I've learned a lot from this show.

[@MrSridharMurthy]

I second that!

[@nivekvb]

I'm watching loads of these now because I'm soul searching. These are high quality and well presented. I follow you on twitter too.

[@shiddy.]

good luck out there

[@vrus91]

Do some meditation too. If metaphysics were scientific..... It would simply be physics.

[@nivekvb]

@@vrus91 that's reductionistic. The universe is probably beyond full understanding. Like a fractal, whatever they discover, there is always more.

[@XenomorphTerror]

This guy is awesome. I watch closer to truth, and a whole lot of PBS spacetime

[@AryanBenita]

@@vrus91 are you sure? Don't you think, that IS also human made stuff!!??

[@virtuallyrealistic]

My left hemisphere is annoyed but my right hemisphere felt comforted that it was not alone.

[@arzoo_singh]

But we need both . Now,imagine we can develop a technology which can give signal to stop using left brain ... analytical work,but focus on emotion and feeling ,so it can stop or hack the system..let's say . Will it have great impact ? Yes left Brain is operating on Beta level ,but we need it may be not at beta level . And just asking are we romanticising too much on Right brain not sure ? Yes ,Right brain has special captibility of some special form of perception ... impossible for logical mind . Again the big fight of consciousness will start in or outside brain ?

[@andrewferg8737]

For unlike God who is the perfectly unified Three in One, we through sin develop inner conflict.

[@01assassinscreed63]

@@arzoo_singh Nope people can even live with half brain

[@RobBoydBennett]

I think I'd like an ice cream. No I don't! Yes I do! Shut up!!

[@robertjkuklajr3175]

This was one of the more interesting discussions. Thank you!

[@waqahmad]

Exactly!

[@citizenschallengeYT]

It does make sense. After all, don't we each contain a spectrum of personalities? Our moods and such. Don't you behave slightly differently every situation, contingent upon who you are with? Bringing out different aspects of oneself in reaction to the social environment we find ourselves in? So not only are we the product of the interactions between the two sides of the brain, but also with the circumstances we find ourselves embedded within.

[@AuditAmplifier]

One of the best, most intriguing videos yet.... Thank you!

[@anonymous203020]

This video is so helpful while I'm studying the nervous system in biology. Thank you! Also, I'm saddened to see that Dr. Zaidel died in July 2021. I'm so grateful for his participation in this video and for his contributions to science.

[@dare-er7sw]

He now knows the truth of consciousness as the only reality. No one dies, consciousness never ceases to be!

[@chrisgarret3285]

@@dare-er7sw you don't know that

[@NightBazaar]

I could listen to Eran Zaidel talk on this subject all day. The man has a way of communicating that's clear and down to earth.

[@MichaelGaribaldi]

@Jay His accent's German, not Israeli.

[@avimaltzman5673]

@jay Can you elaborate on what you mean by "jewish cadence"? But of course, Prof. Zaidel is repeating the comtemporary state of neuroscience and cognition (after all this is his area of expertise, beyond his education in Math and computer science). Modern neuroscience (like all hard sciences) is always a collaborative effort. I listened very attentively to this discussion and at no point did I hear Prof. Zaidel attempting to take credit or to allude that he's taking credit for a discovery or a research that was conducted by somebody else. If you really listen to this discussion, Prof. Zaidel always sights authors of researches and findings, not discovered by him. If you disagree, please point us to a particular place that makes you feel that he uses a "jewish cadence" (whatever that means). Laziness (physical and intellectual) and lack of conscientiousness, combined with aspirations that can be ONLY achieved by many many years of focused hard work, leads to a poisonous combination of complex of inferiority, lack of ability to take personal responsibility for failure and, ultimately blaming own condition on "you know who" (dog whistle) that rule the world or have some kinda trick to hypnotize the poor bastards. Go to school, try to learn something useful, boychik.

[@avimaltzman5673]

@@MichaelGaribaldi Actually, Prof. Eran Zaidel is an Israeli-born Prof. of Behavioral Neuroscience with UCLA. He left Israel after the military service. The accent, although not so pronounced, is clearly Israeli with not even a hint of German. Listen to his pronunciation of "R", "T", "D" and the vowels.

[@endtimes5568]

We only a dual processer. Come on

[@endtimes5568]

Synthetic

[@markuslepisto7824]

But if you reduce the consciousness to the different hemispheres, "two", why don't you just reduce the consciousness to different brain regions..language, mathematics, emotions, memories, desires, mental rotation, visual consciousness, auditory consciousness, smell, pressure, face recognition and so on..with each corresponding physical neural location..or even FURTHER to part's of them..say the consciousness of "s" in the word "say"..which certainly has a corresponding neutral physical location?

[@markuslepisto7824]

I mean.."how down can consciousness actually GO in order for it to be just on te edge of the consciousness and unconsciousness"..Is it ten axon firing or is it just a one molecule at the synapse cavity?

[@markuslepisto7824]

How about the central executive..namely working memory..FOCUS. If you damage THAT part it really doesn't matter what other parts are conscious about..YOU are not conscious about it.

[@markuslepisto7824]

There's one corresponding physical neural event for every mental event.

[@HunkyDork]

I’m always happy to learn that Julian Jaynes will have to be reread sooner than later.

[@redriver6541]

I am so excited that this is now on KZbin. So much better than having to wait until X:XX pm on PBS to watch.....and now I get to watch again to make sure I understood what was being conveyed. I absolutely love it. Thank You!

[@samiaint8043]

This explains Almond Joy candy bar. Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't

[@heaven4247]

Sometimes you Can't Hahaha

[@haroldcheeseburger]

Some times.

[@JoshwaLaw]

Maybe "counciousness" is simply that there is TWO consciousness's in each person, and one is able to look at the other and reflect on it, thus allowing us to be "aware" of ourselves, aka, each consciousness being aware of the other simultaneously. So you can be conscious (animals etc) but not aware of your own consciousness because animals only have one, not two, and able to look at the other. If that makes sense lol

[@kyran333]

My Consciousness isn't confined by my Avatar...think about all the data, on remote viewing?

[@jeffforsythe9514]

First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@fineasfrog]

He starts the conversation with the words "brain structure is where we have to begin to understand consciousness". That is fine but it is limited. So limited that it sets 'boundaries" that can only generate limited solutions to the question of consciousness. Using Eran's example, we can say this kind of approach is like saying we have to begin with the trees to understand the forest. Lawrence's starting assumption necessarily limits the approach to a 'bottom up approach'. In this conversation it is said that even the physical structure of the brain suggest that both a bottom's up and top down approach is needed. This is subtle but the approach starts out saying 'brain structures' (our perception of brain structures) is the way to understand consciousness. This approach is saying that we can fully understand our perception (consciousness) by its perception of physical structures. This is a deeply embedded assumption that needs to be questioned and seen through. To be of greater validity our approach needs to be widened to include the question: Can consciousness (the whole of the forest and the trees) take itself as it own object of observation and study by way of contemplation and thereby somehow come to know itself. We can say this is a different way but also valid way of knowing. If we wish to be unbiased in our knowledge, we need to understand our assumptions that makes choices for us without our being aware of it. We are just a the starting point or edge of beginning to incorporate (embody as knowledge) this way of a more comprehensive way of knowing.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

Consciousness is our primordial soul. First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@timwatts9371]

"That is fine but it is limited" Why? Sometimes limits exist in nature. Recognising those isn't itself a sign of a "limited" mindset' It's just a realistic approach to answering a question.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

@@timwatts9371 Limits exist everywhere but not concerning spiritual enlightenment.. Every person today that takes up any religion is showing exactly what their limit is. Falun Dafa is limitless.

[@Joker25076]

Wow, this was really a new view on "personality" via neuroscience!

[@gr33nDestiny]

This is a great vid, it’s helping me understand my brain processing and it’s intuitive

[@jamesmckenzie4572]

This was particularly interesting. I've not heard of Mr. Zaidel's dual consciousness theory before.

[@andrejgrebenc3235]

Consciousnesses is not material, it is spiritual. It is a matter of soul even more spirit. Without the scientific paradigm shift there will be only a limited progress in understanding it.

[@shkronjax]

"Half of my lab is left handed" Real smooth doc.

[@ArmirCeliku]

Kur e mendon, statistikisht eshte e pazakonte gjysma te jene mengjarash. So maybe he had a point xD

[@shkronjax]

@@ArmirCeliku Veq 10% te njerzve jan dore majt. I kan kta do qesi hajgare palidhje. Dore majt kishe punetoret e mi ne laborator i bajn do sene mrapsht.

[@blondiekowalski8803]

What amazes me about consciousness researchers is that not even one of them seems to know that here is only one place where you can ever find It. They think they're studying consciousness, but actually they are only studying memory. Consciousness can only ever be found in present moment awareness. As soon as you define it's gone and becomes static memories.

[@tinchin714]

True. They are missing consciousness i.e. presence, by analyzing and discussing about. Mind is so much dependent or grounded in memories that it will keep us in memory cassette loop over and over and never set free to experience consciousness. Problem is they trying to find consciousness in objective reality/ words/ mathematical modelling etc while its a subjective experience.

[@Vedicarts108]

Its found in the thalamus and its mediated through serotonin. Too bad they didnt talk about it.

[@madhansundararajan5414]

Why do you say Conciousness represent the present moment. What if you are conscious of the past as presented by the memory loaded by cognition of the senses. Like seeing a film already shot?

[@blondiekowalski8803]

@@madhansundararajan5414 If you are "conscious of the past as presented by memory" than you are awareness--which only ever exists in the present--looking over memories, like watching a film of things that already happened. When you watch a film, is that film you?

[@madhansundararajan5414]

If we drop the " you" in your argument and complete the circuit without it , we have a Conscious memory followed by action as the functional present. The problem lies in the idea of "I" that seems to suggest a concious present. Self awareness is just a super imposed idea and born out of the memory. Proof .. without memory either I or you don't exist.

[@vinm300]

"How Brain Scientists Think" : is a breath of fresh air. Robert gets too bogged down with God and an Afterlife. This series gets 10/10

[@JRBNinetynine-mf6gy]

But, in fact nonsense, although this may push people on to having some understanding. Or not.

[@Maggsgolf]

Who told you that understanding the brain would lead you anywhere closer to understanding consciousness?

[@Crazytesseract]

Consciousness has nothing to do with the brain.

[@cvsree]

Talking to brain scientists about consciousness is like going to dermatologist for heart disease

[@ferdinandkraft857]

Then who should we talk to?

[@whatshisname3304]

they know more about the machinery than the scientists focusing on consciousness though. they have more knowledge, but they really are the mechanics.

[@frank1803]

I look at it differently...It's like talking to a mechanic about the workings of an engine... all the parts the workings. Yet the 'physics' of the engine, F=MA, entropy and its transfer, best answerd by a physists, no? So, this 'mechanic' can have the greatest appreciation for the physics of the engine of which he knows and works on.

[@glynemartin]

@@ferdinandkraft857 Someone like Bernado Kastrup...he night be a good place to start.

[@karthickmurali598]

Yeah he should have interviewed you instead. Mr. KZbin brain expert

[@marcopony1897]

I've always had the impression that on the one hand I am conservative or even right-winged, but another part of me is cosmopolitan and left-wing. When I argue against right winged people, the liberal in me comes out and when I argue against liberals the conservative in me has the upper hand. Sometimes I feel that I am against immigration and in favor of strong ethnic cohesion. And sometimes I wish for a world without tribalism, where everyone gets along.

[@gaddummit]

Yeah I but wonder how much that has to do with the two consciousnesses, because how could the views be so different when you lived through the same experiences. I'd assume our morality is somehow balancing the pros and cons. Also I think it's natural behavior that when you witness someone belittling or praising a certain way of thinking you start off skeptical and try to get them off their high horse by arguing against their views. Though for a better future for everyone I'm convinced left-leaning is the way to go.

[@terrycallow2979]

“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[@deepakkapurvirtualclass]

Let me take the example of God. God has all the power, all the goodness, all the knowledge 'by default'. He hasn't worked hard for it. It's like a 'free fund'. Similarly, we have consciousness/free will as a 'free fund'. Thoughts come and go in our mind on their own. I myself don't know what thought will come into my mind, say after 5 minutes, 10 minutes etc. It's a 'free fund'. When thoughts come to our minds 'on their own', it 'seems' to us that we have thought them 'consciously'...

[@henrikpersson1962]

Is the brain clever enough to understand itself? The ultimate question.

[@1nzi]

Who is the brain?

[@HigherPlanes]

Man oh man, what a jaw dropper. If what this guy is saying about the corpus callosum is true, this deserves a noble prize.

[@ramithuday5042]

Nice.. Verifies the ancient indian discoveries by the sages. Two beings live inside you.. The left brain is feminine, data and energy driven, outward projected,light or particle based, pretending as a student and learning from 0 to 0.5. Right brain is masculine, conscious and wisdom driven, inward projected,master like, field or wave based, but reduces itself from 1 to 0.5. It's the play of the two beings shiva and shakthi (space and energy) within you. A perfect being is one who strikes a balance with energy held in the core and space enveloping it..meaning ego suppressed and wisdom enveloped.. The Enlightened beings operate with the right brain centre superpositioning the left brain centre and fully envelops. Because of superposition, they behave as one single being...

[@MicrophoneHell-ec3bm]

No, it doesn't. You are just using new information to re-interpret old information. The past can often be explained in infinite ways.

[@ramithuday5042]

@@MicrophoneHell-ec3bm yes, the language and approach is different with time..If you turn inwards it takes no time to reach the end of the universe, wisdom says this path shortest and hardest and the task of the right brain. If you turn outwards, then it takes infinite time and energy to reach the end of the universe. It is the longest path, easiest and is chosen by left brain

[@synchro505]

My brain is a mess. I throw, punch, bowl, kick a ball with my right. I write, draw, shave, use a soldering iron, etc. with my left. I'm also "goofy footed" on a skateboard.

[@PPYTAO]

Very interesting conversation.

[@tedgrant2]

One thing they think about is why consciousness requires oxygen. This makes it very difficult to believe in life after death. But they don't know the power of miracle spring water !

[@timhallas4275]

When you listen to brain scientists, and are thinking: OK, I knew that... and that.... and that.... etc.. and you realize that you missed your calling. It just seems like common knowledge to me.

[@heaven4247]

No your on The Same Level. Dimension.Your Proof,we are Evolving again. Go ahead Up Grade?

[@timhallas4275]

@@heaven4247 I have been on that level since I met Carl Sagan. He opened my eyes. Now i can see everything.

[@timwatts9371]

@@timhallas4275 A lot of people who are too lazy or not intelligent enough to actually study and become qualified in the sciences like to imagine that they understand it as well as those who did. It's an example of the Dunning Kruger Effect.

[@timhallas4275]

@@timwatts9371 That's true. I have met many of them, but some people are actually just intelligent, and DO understand a lot of science without a lot of formal education. You may well be one of them.

[@Maggsgolf]

All I wanna do is understand outside and I’ve looked everywhere in the house and I can’t find it, but I’m just gonna keep looking inside the house eventually I’ll have to find it right?

[@devekhande9204]

I dont know why some people are like " just words no answer". Obviously we don't have answer and we are trying. If we already had it would have been in news and you wont find it first on KZbin. But here we can understand how close we have come. CLOSER TO TRUTH.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

You are about to learn something on You Tube. First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@iain5615]

He misunderstands religion. The brain is split but consciousness is not, that shows that the mind is not driven by the brain, that determinism is not supported and that consciousness rules the two brains and so that more supports the notion of a soul.

[@twofaces4410]

😂😂😂wtf is soul? Is it a Ghost?

[@iain5615]

@@twofaces4410 soul is the part of you that will exist beyond this mortal life.

[@twofaces4410]

@Simone De Filippo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣what a joke ... You know? Ghost rider is my best Friend. 😂just kidding you non-conscious being. Btw death means being non-existent from Consciousness and body but the molecules and atoms remains somewhere in the universe.

[@twofaces4410]

@@iain5615 listen man... This applies only for religious folks... For conscious being like us Its called natural selection (Evolutionary Biology). And we have quantum mechanics and a progressive growth of Scientific methods that will tell us what is Consciousness... Listen to that Scientist carefully how he is describing the human brain.. Do you think we really aren't capable of knowing our own brain and it's working?

[@PresidentialWinner]

There is no soul. It does not exist. It's nonsense.

[@victordove9891]

Had a discussion with a coworker about this the other day. If everything else in the universe is understandable through physics and chemistry, I don’t understand how neuronal activity leading to consciousness, since we know the brain is where consciousness resides, can’t also be explained by mathematical principles. I think we will figure out how memories are formed and then design a supercomputer to link and predict how these memories and outside influences affect decisions and predict our actions.

[@dare-er7sw]

Consciousness is eternal.

[@Stefan1971HH]

@@dare-er7sw can this be concluded from Near Death Experiences?

[@dare-er7sw]

@@Stefan1971HH They are powerful subjective testimonies. Betty Eadie, Dannion Brinkley, Dr. Eben Alexander, Dr. George Ritchie who was looking for his body in the hospital ward when he collapsed from pneumonia, died, and was confused, and many other cases. It's not the domain of science. If consciousness is the primal reality so be it.

[@tracygough11]

The brain IS NOT where consciousness lies. For years scientists believed that, however, we now know better.

[@victordove9891]

@@dare-er7sw I don’t care about anecdotes, I care about the science.

[@stanislavdaganov574]

This is lame. You have a "person" - Lara Croft, she lives in the Tomb Raider game. She is being controlled by an Athlon CPU. It has 940 pins, or 1307 pins. There are two thousand gold wire bonding, connecting the CPU to the die. From there, information goes to the Motherboard, enters the GPU, to enhance her running around. The equivalent to the right side of the brain, is the NVidia GPU. The left side is the CPU. It also uses dual channel highj speed RAM, ha ha ha! This is what you talk, when you talk about nerve synapses, cortex, whatever. You are talking PURE RUBBISH. You don't know ANYTHING about Consciousness. Computer engineers know way more about how the CPU and GPU regulate and generate the pixels on the screen. You know NOTHING, about the brain. We are working on the brain, to alleviate epilepsy... Ha ha ha! Oh, the framerate dropped, so I'm gonna cut off two capacitors from the GPU, and the chip, responsible for 12 of the vertex shaders: I found that while they are off, there is no framerate drop (epilepsy). That's because the additional effects put more load on the two core CPU, and it cannot cope. You need 4-core, or 8-core CPU. To cut the chip with shaders is ridiculous. This is pathetic. You are trying to cure epilepsy, by butchery, and assumptions. You have no idea about Consciousness, you are still in kindergarten! This is quackery, you are charlatans! Charlatans with PhD university degrees...

[@stoppernz229]

Bunch of vague theories no proof no reason.

[@stevekiley6121]

I agree. We've known about the bicameral brain for decades, and different parts of the brain do different things. This goes no way to explaining consciousness.

[@prashanshan7125]

Consciousness is the software of the brain. Brain is the CPU . Both are interconnected but they are different. If you want to understand soul or Consciousness you have to do meditation and must attain higher state of mind. Science can't unlock this.becouse this is in spiritual realm.

[@xxxs8309]

The brain is very fascinating

[@jeffforsythe9514]

First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@tjssailor4473]

Why do I seem to be a specific, individualized consciousness associated with a specific body while you seem to be a different specific, individualized consciousness associated with another body? Why am I, I and you, you? There were billions of bodies around before this one showed up so what changed that I should find myself to be looking out of the eyeballs of this particular body and no other? When it comes to understanding consciousness this is the most important question that must be asked and answered but it is rarely even acknowledged. When the ontologies purporting to explain consciousness are examined critically it becomes obvious that all materialist/reductionist strategies fail completely in attempting to address this question. What is the principled explanation for why: A brain over here would generate my specific consciousness and a brain over there would generate your specific consciousness? Integrated information over here would generate my specific consciousness and integrated information over there would generate your specific consciousness? Global workspace over here would generate my specific consciousness and global workspace there would generate your specific consciousness? Orchestrated quantum collapse in microtubules over here would generate my specific consciousness and orchestrated quantum collapse in microtubules over there would generate your specific consciousness? A clump of conscious atoms over here (panpsychicism) would generate my specific consciousness and a clump of conscious over there would generate your specific consciousness? Materialism already fails since it cannot find a transfer function between microvolt level sparks in the brain and any experience or qualia. In addition it’s not possible for materialistic ontologies to address this question of individuality since no measurement can be made that could verify my consciousness vs your consciousness and therefore no materialist ontology could even make any coherent statements about the subject.

[@haroonaverroes6537]

this is for future generations only, as mentioned before it is not for their ancestors "the apes", I know that the apes' little irrational minds are good only at thievery and polluting human thoughts like any other apes. What generates consciousness type one is self-concept itself. Consciousness type two is just a small part of self-concept, even though it plays a main role in the background such as using cerebellum to make a very sophisticated mathematical operations, for high accuracy tasks such as in shooting, driving, .... etc. Involuntary nervous system, immune system, ..... Self-concept uses consciousness type one to recognize the inner and outer world but there is better definition, Self-concept is one of the most advanced coding systems in existence itself, it works deeper than genes, and deeper than so-called quantum physics. It's governed by science and only science but very sophisticated. future rational intelligent Human entities have to focus on consciousness type one that's more than enough to master science. the current mathematics, physics, ... are incomplete and include many mistakes too, it will take time to revise and improve science, that time humans can think seriously to understand consciousness type one. In consciousness type one self-concept uses right side of the brain to resemble itself and the left side for logical judgment, control, but actually who is in more control is the right side, there is a strong interactions between who uses both is the same one, that is the secret of that dialog in the Ape's brain, it's more complicated than that of course but it is just to concise. there was more details about space-time, Gravity, entanglement, superposition, consciousness, awareness, concept of infinity, numbers,...... He wrote them on one of the KZbin channels, they are hidden or deleted purposely, but he has sent them per email before, and...... there was only one condition from the beginning: steal but do not pollute, I knew all this from the beginning, I have told them this is not for you it is for future generations, they could not digest that, human logic and ..... logic are completely different, the only thing they can do is polluting human logic, I am not interested in the world of .... because it is not my world. all I care about is that the message reaches future generation clean and not polluted with the apes low logic. it is nor COVID-19 effect neither revelation from the sky "the gods of the apes", it is a thievery using patching techniques through thievery. many apes lately want to imitate a specific model "self-concept" using patching techniques of thievery. by the way, the location of self-concept is the brain-stem and the surrounding area but reaches the the vital organs during awake, it generates so-called personal identity too, which continue throughout the person's life, ..... all this hid or deleted purposely, probably it is a thievery. in some cases such as severe psychological trauma self-concept disconnects the left side of the brain "it does work but partially works and in chaos" they are committing a real crimes against future generations by stealing or using patching techniques of thievery, they can steal "the whole package" but do not pollute because human logic and the apes logic are completely different (will never work together), but they did not respect the deal, they want both: stealing and polluting! that is too much for the apes!. I know that the only thing the apes are good at is thievery and polluting human thoughts like any other ape. steal but do not pollute for the sake of future generations, even though I know very well how much the sick irrational apes are greedy, thieves, .....

[@cgfreeandeasy]

Interresting theory, that the Hemispheres are for differently Thninking-Modes. But there´s some all-embracing conception, that right-hemisphere are more man-like, and left-hemisphere are more woman-like - for the humanoids. Dolphin and Birds use this Hemispheeres for sleep at flight or swim. One hemisphere is sleeping, the other works for motoric functions and controlling environment - interchangeably according to prevailing need. That there are special functions in each hemisphere, is thereby less probable. Only special life-styles that conditioning Brain, can form hyper-specialised brainregions between left and right hemispghere.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@cgfreeandeasy]

@@jeffforsythe9514 MAybe. Bit without the Brain nothing can think anything on higher cognition..

[@jeffforsythe9514]

@@cgfreeandeasy The soul is immortal while the brain is over fifty percent fat. When the brain along with the rest of the body is decomposing, the soul has moved on.

[@cgfreeandeasy]

@@jeffforsythe9514 Maybe yes, but without a brain this soul cannot reincarnate. If on earth one Species exstinct, and no other comparable species can take their soul, then there would this soul no more resurrect. Maybe this soul splitts of in much particles, that drift in many species "down" in compatible Soul-particles and live on in new souls. But without brains, there are no appearance of Soul in the universe. That did not mean, that souls come out of braines and only brains are required to generate "Soul", but it means, that without brain no appearance and existance of it is possible. You need brains to sustain/ uphold such "souls".

[@cgfreeandeasy]

@@jeffforsythe9514 But when this "soul" can independently from brains exist, then it must be a more greater Being exist out of our perception ability. For us Humans/earth-species means this, that we are only then capable to participate in soul, when we have a brain with sufficient function and complexity. And it still means, that a brain even for this big(ger) entity is necessary to generate or bring out, or just as we do, participate in it.

[@thekingscotustheredstar2136]

God is right handed not left handed ... 🙏 but he can use both southpaw ... maybe but birds 🐦 do fly in the air red robins, eagles crawls Shape and sizes God loves everybody ...

[@berndlebherz240]

Mr. Kuhn, wich principal you are following, to find these people, you're talking with???

[@haroonaverroes6537]

Corpus callosum, by looking to the brain anatomy they miss an essential part. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="720">12:00</a> that is solid proof that everything I have said before is 100% correct, it is self-concept what generate both so-called personal identity and consciousness type one, they have misinterpretations

[@mikefinn]

Sensory inputs and memories cause neurons to fire. Chemoelectric signals are generated in the synapses. It seems to me that consciousness manifests when a critical mass of neurons are generating their chemoelectrical signals. As these electrical signals travel on the axons, electromagnetic waves are produced that radiate short distances. When multiple neurons fire simultaneously, a complex field is created by these intersecting EM waves. Feed back loops emerge and become regulated by an emergent brain property, consciousness. Consciousness is the ability to focus and regulate these feed back loops.

[@jasonemryss]

Testing on animals of immoral.... Hence the inconsequential verbage...

[@russellbarndt6579]

So how can or can you get one side of Our consciousness to dominate or be the Director ? ...This is another Wow episode for my !its for my own conclusions but I would like to better understand how some people are empathic with so called empty neons that lick up other peoples thoughts to some level..????

[@jonathancunningham4159]

I wonder what this says in regards to inner monologue. Often times it feels like you are having a conversation with yourself, but could it actually be the two sides in conversation?

[@jeffforsythe9514]

First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@jamesmorton7881]

Look into vision processign, reading requires LEFT & RIGHT processing.

[@iamcosmic1993]

This is a brilliant series, but this neural science perspective is a flawed one. If a person cannot differentiate themselves between left and right function , it is not dual. And he fails to explain why cutting the corpus callosum has no effect.

[@tomkwake2503]

Based on this interview, a thought comes to my mind. Relative to 'two minds in "one", connected by a corpus callosum '. Can 'single things' fundamentally be made of 'dualities'? Isn't "all physicality" based upon the principle of an imbalance between the duality of matter and anti-matter that still exists? I don't think that consciousness can be 'solved' like a mathematical equation, however consciousness is functionally energy related, so there will be a structural and functional relationship for consciousness, relative to the 'minds eye', that can be sensed and developed by the mind.

[@robertorourke6614]

The corpus christies passed that line on to you , welcome to the bottoms up club , its more fun & had-able

[@Funkadelic74]

Exactly. Imbalance is the Key to create a balanced entity (being stable but also ambivalent 😊)

[@5tyyu]

I think the 2 minds hes referring to is schizophrenia

[@jeffforsythe9514]

Consciousness is one's soul. First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@0zyris]

Is consciousness then the "conversation" and "comparison" between the two brain halves? Each one observing the other?

[@WildMessages]

So what's ambidextrous then? Now I have to fit 2 hemispheres into my thinking 🤔 Wow

[@kipling1957]

The Master and his Emmisary is excellent on this

[@Funkadelic74]

That's one of the most interesting topics IMHO. Dualism seems to be not only the foundation of old sciences like religion and philosophy, but also the guideline of everything that modern sciences reveal (particles and waves;matter and antimatter;positive and negative..). Where old and new sciences match is that the whole thing is created by 2 contradicting parts (like yin and yang being only a perfect circle together). We tend to search for the one unique explanation but probably never will get it without considering 2 attracting opposites. The key seems to be the balance of /harmony between 2 extremes, because energy can only be created by that.

[@PresidentialWinner]

To be fair, dualism traditionally is meant as Spirit/Body not Mind/Mind as he is discussing here. Don't confuse mysticism and religious superstitious beliefs with scientific knowledge.

[@clemsonalum98]

I was pondering this whole thing and wondering have we studied what makes someone conscious vs unconscious when they are alive? Unconscious could be for many reasons, put under for surgery, bad end of a hay maker, sleeping - whatever. It seems like this is problematic in a lot of ways because all the features that creat consciousness are still present when unconscious - if they aren’t then which features change? Isn’t this key to consciousness?

[@heaven4247]

That's what I'm talking about You and me , Pinky hahaha

[@mennehgambia1962]

so consciousness is awareness.... being attentive.. The brain is a bunch of nerves, and nerves do 1 thing, they perceive.... The brain is a perception tool, and consciousness is simply you perceiving reality. Wasnt that complicated..m

[@jdub2378]

@@mennehgambia1962 the brain is a filter that allows you to concentrate. Consciousness is who you we really are. We are not ours thoughts or the body.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@dare-er7sw]

@@jdub2378 Yes. Advaita Vedanta

[@msimp0108]

I can’t believe how boring this is. Nothing new. Nothing interesting.

[@russellbarndt6579]

Makes me think of the Native American Indian teaching of the war between the Dark wolf and the White wolf ,one with morals and concern for others well-being while the other inner being has limited morals and no regard for others at any level....

[@galluer]

So the right brain vs left brain distinction is analogous to Kahnemann's System 1 and 2 ? Is it really that simple?

[@mansourhashemi314]

What is it meant by 'language"? words in the mind as we talk things over with ourselves without vocalising those words, or speech, the vocalised words?

[@erictko85]

Its a good question. Those 2 things you mention have one thing in common which comes to my mind: patterning,. Whether that be patterning of neural signals in the brain, or patterning of the air by our vocal chords or patterning symbols on paper if written. So that is definitely a major part of language, understanding pattern can help one understand what "language" is. This is part of the reason Information Theory is so powerful.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@mansourhashemi314]

@@jeffforsythe9514 right however "soul" is a product of sublimated matter, a linguistic living organism - mainly the product of the whole nervous system.

[@vamo_tiv8044]

Consciousnesses is unified one side intends and one side thinks. Intention is the whole while the thoughts are the parts of the whole. Love is reality and wisdom is its manifestation. One can't be without the other. It is exactly like heat and the light that the heat gives of. They are unified.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@purushothampurushotham6443]

It's wondering how consciousness beings we live correlatedly perceiveing in unconscious materlistic an non physical world in consciousness but impossible to know unconscious materlistic world with out consciousness an not even full consciousness of conscious and unconscious materlistic an non physical life

[@rashmikapoor8846]

Is thermometer and temperature same..is barometer and altitude same..how can brain and consiciouaness same..you can not a brain and consciousness as same..

[@devekhande9204]

We have consciousness because we have perception of time. If we didnt have perception of time we will have only senses. Until 3-4 years old we just have senses after that period we can form memory and have perception of time in order to have what we called DEVELOPED CONSCIOUSNESS

[@eddiebrown192]

Devendraekhande I am with you bro ! The arrow of time is simply how our conscious experiences the universe . Our understanding of time is severely lacking !

[@Zen_Power]

Even with the ability to perceive time in addition to sensual capabilities I’m not sure that’s enough to equate to consciousness. If you developed some software, include a program to measure time accurately, include hardware to detect pressure, temperature etc etc as our senses, I don’t think you could argue that it has consciousness.

[@devekhande9204]

@@Zen_Power Everything is a result of very minor quantum fluctuation. Even if we take 0 (consider it as nothing), there are positives on one side and negatives on antagonistic side. So basically even in nothing (which can be perceived only at speed of light), there are positives and negatives ( u may consider up- down, clockwise-anticlockwise), so these equally antagonistic things are perceivable below speed of light. Even though these are completely opposite there happens veryyyy minor fluctuation in their otherwise perfect antagonistic positions resulting in big bang. This bing bang resulted in assymetric distribution of these positives and negatives. This distribution wl become symmetric once this fluctuation ends ( it cant be observed at edge of univesrse or at speed of light but in relative speed we experience it as billions of years). NOW coming to humans, this assymetric distribution resulted in formation of atoms (in atoms also intrinsic tendency to balancing + and - is maintained). This balancing coupled with infinite time ( its infinite for us as we are inside quantum fluctuation which has innate tendency to operate at speed of light) can certainly create infinite probabilities. These random probabilities gave rise to creation of such arrangement of atoms which created basic structure which demanded for energy and increase in size. THIS IS POINT WHERE IT GETS TRICKY to explain development of SENSE (BIGGER QUESTION). It can be result of infinite probabilities but humans have nature to look for answer, so as of now we can't measure these probabilities so we give it a name of EMERGENCE. If we could find out how senses emerged, then it is rather easy to explain consciousness. All living organisms have senses. In the process of evolution humans developed property of strong memory as it is necessary for survival. We have strong memory so strong awareness of time which helps in more options in decision making which we call it as FREE WILL or DEVELOPED CONSCIOUSNESS. This network is weak as we go to other animals, hence their CONSCIOUSNESS is weak. ( Just try as hard as you want, you won't be able to recall when you were younger than 3-4 years, YOU CANT ). So newborn is just animal with senses. So, as this fluctuation will end when perfect antagonism of these + and - will be attained creating BLACK HOLE. Next big bang wl happen during next fluctuation and it wl go on and on. SO EVERYTHING IS RESULT OF WAVE FUNCTION WITH INTRINSIC PROPERTY OF A MINOR FLUCTUATION.

[@devekhande9204]

Do read whenever you get time.

[@devekhande9204]

@@Zen_Power Only if we could create identical senses in machines then there consciousness will be similar to us humans. Because humans consciousness act as a result of feedback output to input generated via theses senses. Fulfillment of theses senses is intrinsic property of living things. ( If individual isnt getting enough positive feedback for example from touch * like sex *, one of the sense then organism tries to look for more positive feedback from any other sense - just a stupid example) But yes we operate on feedback mechanism. It's just due to enormous probabilities and our limited brain, we get overwhelmed. Yes but we are getting CLOSER TO TRUTH.

[@mysticwine]

Consciousness is where ever the focus of attention is at

[@harshbing8123]

Not really but ok

[@mysticwine]

@@harshbing8123 OK What?

[@primovid]

I really like that!

[@jdub2378]

No, you can train your mind to focus and concentration on one or multiple things. Consciousness is the basic reality of the the entire universe. Indivisible. Consciousness is more like the knower of objects in reality.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

The brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@haroonaverroes6537]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="840">14:00</a> they do not differentiate between self-concept and generated personal identity or personality, they give many name, sometime for the same thing and sometimes they invent unnecessary terms, because of the misunderstanding.

[@xiaorock1272]

this is the norm functioning of the brain it does not clarify who n where is mind consciousness.... mind n body.... one pointness of mind....

[@JRBNinetynine-mf6gy]

Go to all YT's, Stuart Kauffman. Don't be left behind

[@jdub2378]

Judaism their is the good and evil inclination. Dual consciousness. Buddhism you can sow good or bad seeds in your mind.

[@bodozeidler9118]

What a unique Talk, with an Open question, who of the hemispheres commited the murder...... Haha :)

[@sony5244]

This program would have been better if it shows it with some visuals. I request Mr.Kuhn to make his program with depictions of what the speakers are talking about.

[@ferdinandkraft857]

So you are given free quality content and you still demand more?

[@planet7027]

When he said the problem of left handed already says he’s lack of a better word..ignorant

[@entombedmachine1518]

This stuff is absolutely fascinating.

[@as.akshat.sharma]

As long as these scientists will search conciousness in others brain...they will never Understand it!

[@charlottemarceau8062]

Have a listen to Ian McGilcrest about the divided brain and western culture

[@primovid]

So here's my question: Which part of the brain is responsible for losing concentration when something falls in the background at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="701">11:41</a> ?

[@jeffforsythe9514]

First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@amit2897]

Sounds like we understand nothing....yet 😀

[@PriusOmega]

Julian Jaynes Bicameral Mind is something to look into. It's all about two minds, one body, and the origins of consciousness and the concept of the self. I really love the theory, but no one seems to know about it. My favorite part about it is that it doesn't shy away from the fact that humans apparently gained something through evolution that allowed culture and civilization in the blink of an eye, at least in evolutionary time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)

[@Funkadelic74]

I know it from Westworld series 👍

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

How is time processed in the two hemispheres of brain, such as past and future?

[@hydril1537]

I think consciousness is a relationship between to minds 🤔

[@_a.z]

I used to think I was schizophrenic, but now I'm in two minds! (joke!)

[@danzigvssartre]

I used to think I was schizophrenic, but that's what the voices always say.

[@backwardthoughts1022]

coulda sworn the question was about consciousness, not neural coorelates

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

How is mathematics done in each hemisphere of brain?

[@bretnetherton9273]

Awareness is known by awareness alone.

[@preetsindhal7837]

we can never understand consciousness we are the product of it

[@ricklanders]

So in other words, hemispheric division has been necessary for survival, because the organism needs to have the specialized micro-focus to be able to forage for and find food, while simultaneously maintaining a more global/macro awareness to avoid being eaten by predators. It appears evolution always has a reason for everything. ;- )

[@caricue]

rick, that was a pretty good evaluation of one of the possible usefulness of the hemispheres using slightly different approaches to information processing. I'm sure you understand that evolution doesn't have reasons. It is you who are projecting a reason on to the unthinking and goal-less process of evolution.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@Drogers8675]

We are just material. When we die it’s over. Get used to it

[@rickaguilar1833]

I think, therefore I am..........Descartes

[@tearpsounds8235]

I think there might be three of us.

[@GreaterDeity]

This just opened my eyes to something I have been "plagued" with, all my life: the ability to observe myself, and not be "involved". It's difficult to explain, but I can detach and seemingly watch as if in the third person. It scares me sometimes, but this new information helps. The problem is that my brain is inside my head, so why do I literally feel like I have left my body? There were two instances when this happened where I got "stuck" and didn't know if I would "go back". I know the mind is quite the maze, but what the hell in my brain does this?! I just want it to stop. 😓😔

[@ramithuday5042]

Whenever you are stuck like that, chant Om..you will see that inspite of you feeling observing feom outside the body, it will centre you back...

[@jeffforsythe9514]

First of all the brain does not think, it is our primordial souls that think. Right now it is your soul that is reading this comment.......................falun dafa

[@ashley_brown6106]

Maybe you suffer from some kind of depersonalization. Have you experienced trauma in your life? I would advice you to see a therapist about that.

[@rickwyant]

Whitman, Thoreau, Sagan have commented on this phenomena of being "outside" of oneself. A blessed state that comes in flashes. I simply enjoy them when they come.

[@nrgbunni.]

That's what's known by science as an out of body experience, known in spirituality as astral projection and in psychology as a type of dissociation which is a result of trauma. How you wish to view it is up to you but I recommend researching each of these explanations of what it is before coming to your own view of what it is.

[@GUPTAYOGENDRA]

Consciousness is seen as everything including you and me and exists without everything including you and me just as clay is seen as all pots and exists without them.

[@Kooky_Duzzfutz]

Trapped inside their little boxes.

[@bajajones5093]

this man admits he is guessing. the brain does not, in any way, generate consciousness. The brain is simply a receiver. All he is discussing is the location of correlates.

[@phil7]

Brain being a reciever! Interesting, can you point me to some research or anything? Regards Rahul

[@glynemartin]

@@phil7 The IDEA that the brain generates consciousness is not scientific fact. It's belief. Can you explain how a grey fleshy, squishy piece of meat became aware of ...or knows anything?

[@eddiebrown192]

Glyne Martin complexity

[@danzigvssartre]

@@phil7 The brain as receiver theory was endorsed by philosophers like Henri Bergson, William James and Aldous Huxley. It is usually referred to as "Filter Theories of Consciousness." Bergson's "Matter and Memory" is the best outline of such a theory. In contemporary cognitive science, Manzotti's "Spread Mind Theory" is the closest thing to a contemporary view of a Filter Theory since he contends that the contents of phenomenal perception are not limited to the brain and are not located entirely within the brain.