Is Your Consciousness Just A Bunch Of Vibrations? | Answers With Joe

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How does non-conscious matter create consciousness? The "hard problem of consciousness" is a question that has plagued philosophers, psychologists, and neurosurgeons for centuries. A new theory suggests it's all about vibrations and synchronicity. It's called The General Resonance Theory of Consciousness.
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[@Sciencerely]

As a human biologist and researcher, I can tell you that still have to learn a lot about consciousness in animals. Bacteria sense the presence of other bacteria around them in a process called quorum sensing and it is still heavily debated to what extend insects feel pain (there are quite a few new studies suggesting that they show some but not all responses). Humans, of course, are even more complicated and we actually have recently found more and more evidence that even bacteria in our gut can influence our mind, as certain bacteria contribute towards anxiety disorders and depression (would love to make a video about this!). Feel free to ask anything about the human body (or stem cells, since I am conducting research in this field)!

[@Napoleonic_S]

do we even know when did a human being gain consciousness when he/she was still inside the womb? is this question even asked in biology or bio psychology?

[@deathcole]

Are there any other type of species that become biologist and researchers? As a human internet denizen i feel the need to know.

[@TheRainHarvester]

I am exploring digital lifeforms / consciousness in this bio digital world. You might like my video, search "heart beats and blood flows" on my channel.

[@martiddy]

The consciousness topic is a very interesting field indeed, I remember reading something about memory storage and that not all our memory is located in our brain, but also in a part of our spinal cord. Which it kinda makes sense because it also has some different types of neurons called spinal neurons, in which these synchronize with the memory stored in the motor cortex of our brain to developed muscle memory.

[@regular-joe]

I have so many questions about that. Edit: SO MANY.

[@user-lr8ct8wu6q]

These “existential crisis videos” are probably why I subscribe to this channel. It’s rare that a science oriented channel like this doesn’t just stick to the well understood stuff but actually keeps an open mind to the stuff not so popular in the mainstream. Thanks Joe for keeping us open minded!

[@LordDecapo]

10000% agreed!

[@Mengjoanne]

“If you want to find the secrets to the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” -Nikola Tesla

[@lordgekko]

“If you knew the magnificence of the three, six and nine, you would have a key to the universe.” - also Tesla

[@adamwest8711]

He was a nut...

[@nandoblondemobydick5438]

u don ´t have to go behind secret which u will never need to survive , in fact we forget and survive best when were blind about, the simple act to try to get a better theory is just a power protocol to get more control, but for us life is as mysterious than for a shark o any ocean a creature which even barely can see the sun, each one has is whatever skill or senses that help the specie to live and evolve, that all

[@nandoblondemobydick5438]

by the way nobody knows yet what the hell energy is (even Nobel prized physician don ´t know what energy is ) . Nicolas Tesla discover AC/DC, part of the industrial revolution, that ´s all a brilliant guy, now we have Elon Musk and others... all are confort creators for human race

[@TheSimonScowl]

@@adamwest8711 No. He was a genius and a victim of lesser people who are incapable of understanding said genius. Thus, he had 'issues' like many brilliant and creative people. They weren't his fault.

[@Menthor333]

It's actually amazing how we are not amazed about being conscious, and that the world exists. The more I think about it, the more it blows me away.

[@Plisko1]

I am regularly amazed that we are not more amazed.... even that we exist at all. None of this should be very likely to happen according to everything we know.

[@kozmizm]

Not everyone is conscious. I hate to break it to you. Some people really are on autopilot. That's my experience, and I would prefer not to explain why I say that, but I truly believe that based on some things I've experienced. I have direct evidence. Hopefully you'll take it on faith and then maybe you can better navigate the world of light and darkness. At least consider what I said. And you are right, it is mind blowing and weird. Why everything? But I will say that we're alive during a momentous point in evolution. Maybe that's why consciousness is here now. Will primitive beings with too much power succeed, or will we cause a catastrophe that causes major destruction. Will consciousness prevail or will autonomous bots overtake us because we set them in motion with calculative abilities exceeding our own, even though they are just slaves of our creation with no actual consciousness? Will we give birth to truly conscious entities that exceed us. We like to think we're so amazing but we've barely evolved past basic primates. I have one of the highest IQs on the planet, yet at some point I realized I'm an idiot. What does that say about most of our race?

[@kozmizm]

The giver of consciousness and wisdom came unto his own creation, yet most people rejected him/it because their deeds were evil, and they don't want to see the truth. They couldn't grasp him/it. There are those who seek truth and radiate it, and there are those who wish to conceal the truth. There are those who embody brilliance and there are those who hate the light and prefer shadiness. There are creatures of the day who do things openly, and there are creatures of the night who sneak and steal. I'm glad you're a truth seeker. You ask the right questions! You were chosen. God loves you! You are on your way to eternal life and eventually paradise. Those who truly worship god must do so in truth and spirit. God is a genius, beautiful beyond our imaginations. You have seen but a glimpse of his/its true beauty

[@Master_Therion]

So, if non-living matter can have rudimentary consciousness, how would a river compare to a pile of rocks? A river is dynamic, flowing, has waves etc. Would the river be a... stream of consciousness?

[@Tautolonaut]

Near the river's source, yes... stream of consciousness usually occurs when one is both young and high.

[@Master_Therion]

@@Tautolonaut But what about the mouth of the river? Many things that enter the mouth can alter consciousness.

[@ferrusmanus4013]

@R RQ yes I think I've seen him too

[@simonmorgan6934]

@R RQ chill out, that was funny

[@Bogwedgle]

"Stop making jokes I don't like in public forums": Some Guy 2019

[@UncleWermus]

Just regained consciousness, why yes thank you I will have 1 Joe Scott Existentialism please

[@NimbleBard48]

I clicked like mainly because of your profile picture.

[@joescott]

Just doing my job.

[@darrenmarchant1720]

one part Romulan ale, two parts Everclear, & 5 fresh pine needles. follow with an an ounce of weed. second thought skip the alcohol and just smoke the weed.

[@xliquidflames]

Damn it man. I would love to sit down with a few beers and just talk about stuff with Joe. The conversation would be fascinating.

[@shakiralubbe3354]

I have feels for that. He has wisdom to share & a cool sense of humour. Loves to Joe from South Africa 🙌

[@JCtheMusicMan_]

This topic and specifically, this video resonates with me. My worst realization of consciousness is having memories of a time when my brain functioned better than it does now. I am self-aware of the fact that I am less aware than I used to be capable of.

[@comiccat4650]

So if I am just a vibrator, why don't I have a girlfriend?

[@advawnture441]

Oof

[@MARLEYDIDIT]

perhaps your frequency is too low?

[@interferon4800]

@@MARLEYDIDIT So he's a European 50 Hz, not North American 60?

[@comiccat4650]

@@interferon4800 that is indeet correct

[@Phoenixash-delfuego]

I went to Liverpool in England and I'm convinced everyone is obsessed with weird sexual practices. At the market the grocer shouted, " four carrots for a pound. " A woman in the crowd shouted back, "but is it a good dildo?" The grocer seemed slightly offended when he snapped back, "would I ever give you a bad dildo?" I heard this same conversation time and time again throughout the market but substitute carrots for a bratwurst, or a bratwurst for a leg of lamb, or a leg of lamb for a scooter and those asking for things that make good dildos were men and women of all ages, so I did think people can't blame this behaviour on the younger generation.

[@saltymcginger2027]

2:29. I too hate when I start talking about neuroscience and then my brain releases DMT.

[@KaoticIndustrial]

Some of this makes sense if you've smoked dmt lol

[@squirlmy]

One time, I was tripping on DMT, and went into this dreamworld, where I found a pipe full of dreamworld DMT, and, of course, smoked it... 🤯

[@joescott]

Is that what that was!?

[@KaoticIndustrial]

@@joescott we're all still in the dmt trip till we die 😂😂

[@saltymcginger2027]

@@squirlmy *Inhales* We need to go deeper Leo

[@c8gerardhamming2]

I love how you were able to make part of this a helpful bit of advice/insight into Depression. it's always nice to know i'm not alone!!

[@ace7845]

I've been trying to formulate my theory about consciousness in order to share it with others and I couldn't find the words, this video actually descibed it fantastically! congrats Joe on another amazing video!

[@JordanMillsTracks]

Mainstream media after half watching this video once: *new study proves the sun is a giant sentient monster!*

[@TheHimmus]

I like that you are assuming that people working in the mainstream media can read.

[@HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS]

@@TheHimmus Lol they can, they just know that tricking the normies is easier.

[@wizardtim8573]

With spaghetti noodle arms

[@luska5522]

SECURE. CONTAIN. PROTECT.

[@chad0219]

@@TheHimmus Exactly that is why he said after watching the video, no reading required. Videos and picture books only... lol

[@editorrbr2107]

Big, believing dreamer me: There is a lot of theoretical elegance here. Concrete, empirically-grounded me: this seems flakier than a four-pack of Pilsbury

[@joescott]

This is an accurate description of what goes on in my head during most of my videos.

[@sonkeschmidt2027]

It gets interesting when you observe both these small you's just from awareness without judgment. Then you can see how empiricism is also just a believe that filled the hole that our deconstruction of religion left. Because we find it really really hard to operate without base believe systems as demonstrated by all the religious fanatics. Science is different in the sense that it introduced a more fluid believe system than original religions. Yet you can observe how many people still struggle with that fluidity and find it difficult to let go of old hypothesis. But if you open that up and let go of all believes you enter the psychological experience Buddhism talks about, which is really scary, as you can feel immediately when you think about tossing the foundation of your world view into the bin and are directly confronted with the question, what is actually true?

[@udishomer5852]

I tend to lean toward the believing side, at least when it comes to consciousness and layers of reality. Our science is still centuries away from figuring out these things.

[@sonkeschmidt2027]

@@udishomer5852 something you know to be utterly abs fundamentally true is that you are conscious. And consciousness is the most fundamental part of your existence as everything is happening within it. Objects, thoughts, perceived self, God, experience of others, feelings, colors all happens within consciousness. What you experience within consciousness depends on your body. The body is part of the universe, there is physically no fundamental difference between a rock or a star and your body. They both exist and they both affect each other. That means consciousness cannot be exclusively generated by the body, as the body cannot exclusively be generated outside of the universe. That the body is part of the universe means that consciousness itself must be part of the universe and cannot separately exist. The experience you have gets molded by your body and changes depending on its state but consciousness itself is a fundamental property of existence.

[@nicolas3554]

@@sonkeschmidt2027yes It’s fundamentally true that we are conscious that far we can agree on, however the rest of your points don’t seem to me as fundamentally true as you make them to be. For example you say “the body is part of the universe... that means consciousness cannot be exclusively generated by the body, as the body cannot exclusively be generated outside the universe”, you finish by saying “the experience you have gets moulded by your body... but consciousness itself is a fundamental property of existence”. Now my problem is you saying consciousness can’t be generated exclusively by the body simply because the body is part of the universe, now the body is just a bit of chemistry that moved to biology but this body is a result of evolution which has given it a brain capable of carrying out the processes where consciousness emerges from. Now where do you find here a reason for the body to not generate consciousness? Now you also say consciousness is the most fundamental part of our existence, is the most fundamental part of our subjective experience of what we call being alive and being human but that’s an abstract concept, it could be argued we have a body before consciousness emerges, I’m no expert so correct me if I’m wrong but I could imagine in the womb there must be a point where the bunch of cells that will become a human already are the “body” yet those cells wouldn’t have what we call consciousness yet, only once the body develops the necessary structures for consciousness to emerge it does. In this sense it can be argued that the body comes before the mind which develops from the body, so why say consciousness must come from somewhere else or exist outside the body? I’m not saying there aren’t other types of consciousness simply because I don’t think we know enough to make that statement but I see no need for what we call consciousness to be more than evolution, this particular type of consciousness simply being a treat developed by life to allow living beings to deal with their surroundings, have an ability to remember and have a continuous self experience which allows for learning and social behaviour etc... Any thoughts on this?

[@coltonsnyder1262]

This adds a deeper level of curiosity to things like intersubjectivity, Jung's thoughts on innate knowledge, shared dreams, shared transcental meditative visions, etc. Looking forward to the progression of this work.

[@kerrysowards5084]

Awesome conversation Joe! And, yes. I feel like your description of consciousness was spot on. Including the part about getting through tough periods of life and cell replacement. Crazy.

[@buaidhnobas1ify]

My brain hurts now. Oh God, why oh why did I come here before my morning coffee.

[@Mrdevs96]

Lmao plus reading the comments is giving me a headache from all the information

[@joescott]

Never do anything before morning coffee.

[@NaionProductions]

@@joescott I can concur

[@mehrdadgolestani3112]

thank you joe,for all of your videos and amount of work you put into it.

[@joescott]

You got it, ma dude.

[@Wallach_a]

Love how this relates to a book you recommended Joe, “Who’s in charge” by Michael Gazzaniga.

[@anappropriatehandle]

"not a single atom in my body killed that man your honour" *moonwalks out of courtroom*

[@secondblackjack1051]

Earth: "Hello, Sun! How are you doing today?" Sun: *_"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"_*

[@Lavourrin]

"IT BURNSSSS! HELP MEEEE!!!"

[@Splatterbrain7]

The sun went fifth.

[@oleroder5706]

If you look at its own rotation (it didn't even rotate once) and solar cycles (each one is 12 years) the sun is probably pretty Jung to itself. Also without a proper society its probably either gone mad or to dumb to go mad.

[@bobbywest7970]

@@oleroder5706 in the context of the life span of a son of our sun it has a lot of very close Neighbors. You know what I bet the sun is a conscious being it's so complicated and long-lived and yes I know that it might just be a dumb Rock but there is so much going on inside of that that I think there is definitely a possibility that stars are sentient.

[@oleroder5706]

@@bobbywest7970 I'm not saying the sun couldn't have a high consciousness ,I'm just saying that that consciousness probably isn't mature enough to make any sense.

[@barbarakramer6785]

I love waking up in the morning to find you've posted a new video. Thanks for all you do.

[@milohookfish6001]

I love your videos on consciousness, identity and any subject regarding our fantastic complex brains thank you joe.

[@xxCrimsonSpiritxx]

I have to be honest that's it I can't keep this bottled in any longer.. You are the funniest science channel out on youtube and I love it, content is always one of a kind with relatively minimum clickbait titles, never change!

[@KumaBones]

Interesting discussion, and thought experiment btw!!! Love your show/content

[@ahmedhajie8083]

Hi. Could you please do an episode on hypnosis. Like pretty PLEASE.

[@joescott]

Hmmm....

[@sonyacowles8597]

I'm glad to see you cover this topic. I've instinctively sensed this but didn't have the science to explain it. Thank you, Joe. Love your vids. ☺💙☺

[@DerpyDo]

This is right down my ally as I am constantly pushing the boundaries of consciousness, and experiment daily with ritual and meditation. Resonance and Vibration are/is EVERYTHING.

[@IndigoXYZ18]

Can you make a video on formal scientific research into the paranormal (PEAR labs, Skin Walker ranch, crop circles, etc.)? Think Anomalous has a great channel dedicated to this topic.

[@fuknrowdy]

Is there real formal research into this stuff, or just ghost hunters type of woo lords taking donations and the occasional grant? That's what I always pictured, anyways

[@IndigoXYZ18]

Ryan O'Reilly The Princeton engineering anomalies research labs were not overseen by "woo lords". A lot of the research done on Skin Walker ranch was private but the testimony of the scientists there speak volumes. And the crop circle research I was referring to was done by a French university, and although it didn't go into much depth, they uncovered enough high strangeness to indicate these crop formations were far from man made.

[@fuknrowdy]

@@IndigoXYZ18 while I cant speak to the skinwalker ranch or the princeton labs, I will look into those soon time permitting, I am aware of the crop circle research you spoke of. High radiation readings compared to background, bulbs and ruptures in the stalks of hay, evidence of flash heating, and I'm sure more, but years later those are the things that stick in my mind. Granted those are interesting, but what made me discard those findings at the time was that they were the only people who found anything of the sort. Maybe that's changed, but it seemed to me, if after a few years of these earth shattering if verified discoveries being out there without being verified... then they are false. NOBODY thought that was interesting enough to repeat? Ok then....

[@IndigoXYZ18]

Ryan O'Reilly Like I said I recall it was a French university I invite you to research the matter for yourself. There was a brief time in the 80's where there was actually a respectable amount of scientific being done into crop circles, however this began to dry up when they realizes there were no convincing conventional explanations to the phenomena (not helped by the fact that two men came forwards claiming to have made every crop circle, making further research garner even more scorn amongst their peers in the scientific community). My honest opinion as to why so little research has been done into a phenomena that can more or less be confirmed by the Human eye alone to be the work of unknown forces, ironically isn't that different than a theist ignoring evidence which challenges their faith. I am reminded of a quote from one of the Harry Potter books where it was said that a muggle wouldn't believe in magic even if they saw it in front of there very eyes. I remember there was one scientist who was on record saying (in regards to the findings from PEAR labs) that they wouldn't believe it even if it were true. The thing is, whatever the explanation for these well documented paranormal events, there is no explanation that would shatter every basic fundamental scientific assumption we make about the Universe and our place in it. And the worst part is they're right, if there is seemingly the faintest of threads attaching these paranormal events with some kind of reasonable explanation no matter how far out there and magical, but it always seems like the second you dig further in an attempt to establish some kind of framework connecting these events, it evaporates in your hand like trying to catch smoke, the entire phenomena appearing to be random glitches in the Matrix. It's like even we could have spent the time from the scientific revolution onwards studying what is for lack of a better term magic, and be no closer to any explanation behind these events, all the while there existence continually throwing into doubt every other scientific discovery we make. Honestly it's no wonder the rational mind simply chooses to ignore these phenomenal, if for no other reason than the utter lack of utility any true attempt to integrate these events into our understanding of the physical world.

[@jjohnston94]

Q: What did the Dalai Lama say at the pizza parlor? A: Make me one with everything!

[@biggsydaboss3410]

It's an old joke, but it checks out :)

[@steffenkassner2033]

Didn't work on the Dalai Lama… kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp2so3xuZdSabsU

[@DarinM1967]

"The General Resonance Theory of Consciousness", makes a lot of sense to me, but than again I was raised Buddhist, Baptis and Wiccan, was tested at 8 with having a very, very high I.Q., and have had a similar hypothesis about consciousness most of my life. Just glad to see I'm not a lone. Look forward to see how the A.I. tests on the subject work out.

[@Dss-bm3rz]

The "turtles all the way down" reference completely took me back to my days reading Terry Pratchetts Discworld novels. Thank you for this, and the laughs that continue to beseige me...

[@BothHands1]

I always talk to myself when I'm alone - I've actually gotten comfortable enough around my roommate to talk to myself when she's home. She thinks I'm a bit nuts, but so is she so it's all good lol 😅😅

[@davidsirmons]

You're absolutely adorable! :) What a sweet cat, too!

[@Kizunaut]

Dude...what if we're like...vibrations...man...

[@kuryamtl]

@kotonpap *hits bong* *blows smoke* Like man we are quantum!!

[@kozmizm]

I love you brother! Everything that pours out of your mouth on these youtube videos is pure (hilarious) gold! Keep up the good work!

[@dr.feelgood2358]

2:35 that's a good tripping out sequence. the Tuvan throat singing was a nice touch!

[@frank1803]

" how does it create a subjective experience?" Joe, this experience is for whom? Who is having this experience? We are the consciousness. - that us the real 'me'... the body is the experience/vehicle...

[@briansmith7067]

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Nikola Tesla

[@jorgemarques2028]

I like that idea, but make it crazy unexplainable and then add more of the joker and voila

[@rockinbobokkin7831]

Just letting you know: I hadn't received a notification for your content in a very long time until today, and I'm a long time subscriber.

[@technicolortony3091]

My favorite subject !! Thanks Joe. Something I’ve thought: there’s just one “consciousness” that just manifests across different points of space time, making “individual” “us”...

[@rseyedoc]

Also interesting is Bernardo Kastro (PhD in computer science) has a theory of consciousness. He believes AI is a certainty but artificial consciousness is a certainly not...

[@genbernier]

Why is there Shrek sublimely impose with the word Layer @ 8:41?

[@sarahb5531]

I also saw Shrek! I was waiting for him to tie it in somehow.... 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[@IanSamit]

My favourite Carl Sagan quote: "We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose." I've often wondered if he was suggesting panpsychism, although I only learned that lovely word for what I was wondering about today ;-)

[@BorisNoiseChannel]

(8:50 ish) on this _weaving a disappearing thread_ quote (love it!), and you, Joe, mentioning how an idea can seem to come from somewhere else; made me think of how that same _epiphany_ can _disappear_ like snow in the Sahara too. Or how, when awaking from an eventful dream, the recollection of all that happened in it, can often almost visibly be seen fading into nothingness (to me, anyway) . Nice one again, Joe.

[@osmosisjones4912]

Maybe indivual cells are conscious. Organize information memories. The connect disconnect even around move the tissue.

[@giraoshaw]

Is the conscious an evolutionary adaptation created by the unconscious instinct to better adapt and respond to unpredictability?

[@anthonypistocchi60]

Gira I’d think the fight or flight response is better for that than consciousness.. especially since we are terrible with randomness

[@simowilliams6990]

No. Because no evolutionary adaptation is 'created,' let alone for a purpose. You're anthropomorphizing randomness, and you need to stop it right now :P Now, as for what you seem to be trying to say, you may be sort of on to something, which is to say that (one of) the benefitI(s) of consciousness is subjective decision-making, i.e. judgment, in real time. That is a huge competitive advantage. But there was never a point that anyone or anything created consciousness for that purpose. It just happened, and it happened to not get in the way of reproduction, so it stuck. That's how natural selection works- if a *random* mutation (the only kind there is, btw) reduces the likelihood of reproduction, it gets selected out of the gene pool (or dies off in the first generation, if it's bad enough); otherwise, it stays. That's it.

[@maxximumb]

Evolution is just a series of genetic accidents that work well enough to allow the animal to survive long enough to breed. Adaptation is the wrong way to think about evolution.

[@ntactime_w3488]

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? *the world may never know*

[@-whackd]

A conscience is different from consciousness

[@busyrand]

Your videos are so helpful Joe! You do such a good job explaining things and touching on the human points.

[@nickboisse3203]

Love all your videos Joe! seriously one of the best KZbin channels. Keep up the geeat work and thank you!

[@danielpas368]

Everything else is just vibrations, so why not consciousness?

[@Thejeanio]

Because too simple? or low level consciousness

[@mmmk6322]

What do you mean "everything is vibration"? That's not what quantum mechanics says! Just that you can describe really small things as waves. It's more of a mathematical model more than anything. No body really understands it just that the math adds up to what the empirical evidence suggests. Unfortunately, when it reaches the public it get simplified and becomes guru science. It is incomplete. In philosophical terms, this idea that "everything is just vibration/waves" is a theory reductionisim. Although I do subscribe to it, it is not the reality of what quantum mechanics is, just our best estimation yet.

[@justinmallaiz4549]

mmmk “... what empirical evidence suggests..” .. I believe many researchers in the field take this suggestion (that waves are fundamental) to heart... and are more so trying to understand how/why we interpret particles... We seem to have less scientific understanding of our (naturally inherent) particle perspective... at any rate.. as you say.. Im certainly not among the smartest people who have devoted entire careers to understanding the subject.. interesting thou

[@mmmk6322]

@@justinmallaiz4549 physics graduate here. I get you. But for us in the field, it becomes a question of how can we quantify what is going on and assign a mathematical model to describe it and see whether that model will give predictions in a slightly different scenario. Just because the popular model of thinking of things as waves because it has some mathematical advantages at looking at it, doesn't mean that's what the reality is doing. Here let me give you an example, we can describe a wave on a guitar string with Cartesian coordination of x length parallel to the string at rest, and y coordinate in the direction of vibration (up and down), we need a third dimension to describe the vibration which is time. Or we can use trigonometry and assign the y to be a function of sin and cosin and collapse the time in there leaving us with x and y(t) as two variables. Or we can use eular's formula and collapse everything even further to one complex variable that explains the the motion of the spring. These are all mathematically viable models, but just because one of them works, or rather even if only one of them works, it doesn't mean that's the reality of what is going, it's just a convenience to think of them that way. Mainly, that the complex variable is more compact or in other words, has more density of information which is an advantage when you want to manipulate mathematically to make a prediction. This whole wave particle duality is just a phase in physics mainstream much like the obsession physicst had with Newtonian mechanics and the claims that it could explain everything was not that hard to falsify even at the time. It's just that physics article writers are capitalizing on the hysteria.

[@joescott]

That's kind-of the argument.

[@ingerrogers3146]

I would hope my consciousness is a melodic tone of vibrations helping me to be more aware. Thinking anything else would be stuck on stupid, double-parked on dumb. Can't have that now can we?. Considering my mind is always thinking, dreaming, and finding solutions to my life, I wouldn't have it any other way. Go deep! I am.

[@Iamzota]

Fascinating and exciting subject. Really love these videos, Joe! Thanks!

[@TheMartinhenry111]

I lost it when the sitar music started playing. Joe I love your videos and always learn something. Keep it up

[@raibard8886]

This is a really well done video. As a musician I find resonance theory fascinating. I wonder how music relates to brain waves and consciousness?

[@ntactime_w3488]

432hz vs 440hz thats how lol look into it

[@raibard8886]

nTactime_ W Ha ! No i mean it more in a significant and scientifically verifiable way. We do know from the study of how music affects the brains of musicians, that music has quite a significant role in brain function and operation. So, therefore it is logical to at least ask the question, how does music relate to consciousness?

[@-whackd]

Try playing a Tibetan singing bowl and you will find out :)

[@raibard8886]

duke1duke1 I have no doubt. However, I play more than a Tibetan singing bowl. I know from my own experience that there is a deep connection between music and consciousness. What I’m asking is has this been studied by the scientific community? If it has I’d like to know when and where. If it hasn’t then perhaps it should be.

[@pohkeee]

RaiBard : I believe it’s rather like a type of biological “ language” that communicates and/or stimulates already existing patterns of receptors/sensitivities , because of resonance of cycles and reactions that are much more ancient than our present biology.

[@FrankClark]

i feel like this could go a long way to explaining the Observer Effect...

[@yourneighborsobnoxiouscat2287]

to observe something you need to interact with it. to see a photon has to bounce off of something. to hear energy has to knock atoms around in such a way that the energy is carried to your ear. to measure temperature you have to physically interact with something to transfer energy and measure it. The observer effect isn't related to a conscious observer. It's more that to measure something, to perceive it with your senses, interaction with it is required. To a lone particle in deep space in a state of superposition another stray atom bumping into it would be an observer. It's interaction that's key here, not conscious perception.

[@timnoble4137]

Ever since starting my masters in psychology, I have held the theoretical belief that our sense of 'self', or consciousness, is the result of interactions of the interaction of our brain wave patterns. Lacking access to the facilities (fMRI ETC.), It is great to learn that this theory is gaining credence and is being explored by people who do have access to such facilities. Thanks, Joe

[@laustinspacemusic]

Hey Joe! Great video per the usual. I live about 3 hours from Dallas, so your videos feel closer, whatever that means. Anyways, I wanted to put out an idea for a video about Graham Hancocks theory of advanced humans existing about 2000 years before the agricultural evolution, but then being mostly wiped out and then the remaining advanced humans would have become like Gods showing humans in lower civilization things like agriculture and having possible theological connections to gods of civilization like Quetzalcoatl. I know that's a lot but i consider it a good start. Thanks for spreading knowledge, Joe!

[@victorbruant389]

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[@ingerrogers3146]

Cute.

[@ingerrogers3146]

Gm. You're welcomed.

[@victorbruant389]

@@ingerrogers3146 Good evening, thx!

[@jhuny]

Yo, it's about that time To bring forth the rhythm and the rhyme I'm a-get mine, so get yours I wanna see sweat comin' out your pores, On the house tip is how I'm swingin' it Strictly hip hop, boy, I ain't singing this Bringing this to the entire natiion, Black white red brown Feel the vibration. Come on come on! Feel it, feel it! Feel the vibration.

[@ac.creations]

Biscuit this man

[@VAXHeadroom]

Caption error: "Tam Hunt Affiliate GUESS in Psychology at UC Santa Barbara" So maybe he is? :D

[@rainrope5069]

I am a bit of a psychonaut, and also like to meditate a lot. when I am meditating it feels almost like I am having a conversation in my own head with someone else, and I kind of felt like I was going crazy for awhile because I felt like there was another person living in my head below my normal day-to-day conscious experience. I know that sounds like woo and Im not claiming that to be the fundamental truth or anything, but thats really how things feel at least in my head.

[@jacksherer-clarke2705]

Great video Joe! I study philosophy and it's always very interesting to hear your perspectives on philosophical problems from a science based background. I like the idea that consciousness has something to do with resonance, but it seems to me that GRT really has more to do with the easy problem of consciousness, (i.e. which physical phenomena are correlated with consciousness) rather than the hard problem of how these phenomena create or constitute conscious experience itself. The theory does touch on the hard problem as you rightly point out, by ascribing to a panpsychist stance, and claiming that consciousness is a fundamental property of matter and that higher levels of consciousness result from a shared resonance among these smaller constituent parts. However it just seems incredible to me that consciousness could really be a fundamental property of matter; it would seem to force us to accept, along Nagel's lines, that however different or more minimal a consciousness it is, there is nevertheless ”something that it is like" to be an atom or a quark etc, a conclusion which surely seems too fantastical to believe. A more palatable version might reject the claim that consciousness is a fundamental property of matter and simply claim that consciousness is an emergent property that arises from these complex resonance interactions. However if we accept this weaker claim, then the hard problem, of how such complex resonances could in fact be capable of creating or constituting conscious experience, is still left unexplained.

[@AerialTheShamen]

The acoustic resonance frequencies of cells change with mechanical membrane tension, which shifts by anesthetics, sleep, all kinds of drugs and of course death. Hence neurons of the brain fail to communicate/maintain the individual consciousness ("soul", which is part of cosmic consciousness) while they resonate wrongly.

[@Peasmouldia]

This presentation should probably have featured the concept of Qualia.(I've probably misspelt that).

[@nycholaus]

Maybe, but Qualia are not real, answer nothing, and the whole Qualia theory is circular reason and question begging covered by semantics.

[@timhaldane7588]

@@nycholaus "Not real"? I don't know about you, man, but I do have inner subjective experience. There is no obvious reason why we shouldn't all just be purely functionalist philosophical zombies. There is clearly something weirdly superfluous about "someone being there", as it were, that is inadequately explained by pure chemistry. That term, "qualia" definitely tracks something. The proof: if I were to lock you in a cage, create a perfect physical replica of you, and then set it loose in the world, it would in every measurable sense be you. But I'm willing to bet that if I told you one of the two would be disintegrated at the end of this, it makes all the difference in the world to you which copy it happens to. It's because only one is the locus of your subjective inner experience.

[@nycholaus]

@@timhaldane7588 oh i do not deny inner experience. How COULD one do that really? "Cogito ergo sum" It is "like something" to "be me". But i think consciousness is an emergent property, an epiphenomenon really, of any sufficiently complex system that has metacognition and agent detection. Our sense perceptions are input. Our consciousness is us examining the state of our own brains, which of course we can only do any by cognition, not in a direct physical manner. It is all still a product of the physical state and electrical activity of our brain, unless you believe in the existence of nonmaterial objects, which seems to me a fundamental contradiction. If you made an exact copy of my every neuron out of silicon andmplaced it in an android body, said android would have the same consciousness as me at the moment of awakenjng and only our henceforth different experience would immediately differntiate our consciousnesses from bekng identical. I also think continuity of consciousness is an illusion. This is why themidea of star trek style transporters does not bother me. Each of our successive conscious states THINKS it is a part of a continuum, but at the finest level is of necessity quantized at the level of the individual neuron firing. The "higher level" metacognitive kr "conscious" activity of our brain SEEMS like it is imune to this, but if you recreate any brain state, you recreate also the parts of the brain currently and instantaneously perceiving themselves as conscious. A computer program..or brain.. that can examine its own higher level code...though not perhaps the underlying assembly code, is not using a nebulous nonphysical separate component within or outside of itself to "perceive" itself. Brains are nothing but high level recursive machines with self modifying code.

[@theotormon]

@@nycholaus But conscious sensation is discrete to some degree. It has inner unity and outer boundaries. From the perspective of the universe, nothing is truly discrete and there are no self-referential systems. There is only the whole. Any "system" of information processing is arbitrarily defined and could be broadened to include not just neuronal firing but chairs, clouds, stars, etc. But that is not how we experience consciousness. Any theory of consciousness that relies only on emergence from information will run into that problem, imo. So there must be some literal substrate that *is* the experience, not just computation. It makes sense to look at chemical, electrical, and quantum field culprits imo. Actually, I would rule out chemicals as a substrate because they are actually a bit *too* discrete. Hard to imagine molecules solving the binding problem. But electromagnetic and quantum fields seem a likely culprit because they can support standing waves, which (to me at least) makes them compelling as a substrate that can both have inner unity while also being physically isolated (thus discrete). The brain might affect quantum fields but we know it affects its own em field. And though Joe did not talk about this, we do know that synchronous firing is correlated to conscious sensation.

[@walle1134]

@@theotormon whack

[@ralphdoggie]

Would crowd wisdom be an example of consciousness a level above individual humans?

[@AndiDuck]

Mob mentality has never benefited anyone .

[@CrazyAssDrumma]

Great video! Really interesting! Thanks for the links!

[@TheWebsOfCorruptionNeverFail]

Yes! I have waited so long for a video on this topic. 0:22 okay, have to listen to this first.

[@samwalters1769]

This is gold medal material for crackpotism. You've outdone yourself with this one. Keep up the good Flamingo amigo

[@cl37167]

"Consciousness is overrated", saith our Supreme Overlord of the Higher Planes of Orgasmic Synergy.

[@MrGonzonator]

My first concert was Toploader.. they sang Dancing in the Moonlight for a solid half-hour, and that's when I decided the best response was to dilute my consciousness with as much beer as it took to wash that song the hell out of there.

[@adamattwood5097]

It’s turrets all the way down! Yes! I was wondering when this phrase was going to pop up one of you videos. It was bound to happen eventually.

[@yourstruly4817]

There's nothing wrong with liking the Beach Boys, they are a million times better than that crap in the charts

[@benjif2424]

So the beach boys were never in the charts? 😉

[@yourstruly4817]

@@benjif2424 I mean today's charts, but that Smiley meant you knew that, right?

[@wrongtimeweeder1076]

You young people really need to get back to the classics to hear _real_ music :P

[@yourstruly4817]

@@wrongtimeweeder1076 I'm 31, and I mostly listen to music from 1920 - 1970

[@wrongtimeweeder1076]

@@yourstruly4817 :)

[@seanjones1346]

My first concert I went to was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Live.

[@kashourikatsu2543]

Nobody asked u....lol joking

[@EctoMorpheus]

It's turtles all the way down!

[@SlavElenkov]

I remember when you were at 600 subscribers, Joe. Congratulations on your success.

[@lasheray]

Thanks Joe, I've enjoyed all of your programs very much.

[@Tautolonaut]

Why do we always say "just" vibrations, as in "merely" vibrations?

[@kyoai]

Because it's a response to some peoples claims that consciousness has to be something more, some spiritual woo-woo like souls. It's akin to telling a child that there is no demon monster growling in the forest, it's "just" some animals making normal sounds. That doesn't mean that we don't respect the animal, but the "just" is a way to indicate that we should stay grounded in reality and look at the evidence.

[@Tautolonaut]

@@kyoai Yep, I remember last time I marvelled at a sunset - A priest leaped out and immediately started molesting me, while a scientist leaped out and started telling me I deserved it.

[@russellrobinson2933]

I want Tesla back!!! See what he might think on the subject. His mind was definitely on a different wave frequency

[@lanacat4673]

Hi Joe. It is true that every single cell in our body is replaced and we are no longer the person we once were. Unfortunately, these are physical parts of us. Each individual cell, even those that have been replaced still have within it the memory. These are vibrations or energy. These vibrations are powerful and as we know if we walk into a room with people thinking negatively we pick up on it. I have been thinking for many years to do a type of therapy that can change our thoughts into tricking us into believing it was just a dream. Just like when we have a nightmare and wake up frightened. The traumas we experience in a dream don't have the same effect on us in the waking, yet we can still remember it and even tell the story differently. We will still know the trauma we experienced was real but shift those experiences into a different part of the brain. Hope that made sense. Lana

[@danielbigham]

Great video! I've been hungry for good discussion on the topic of consciousness for 20 years, and this video delivered. My personal intuition for the last couple of years relates to field theory -- namely, that there aren't just fields for EM, mass, etc, but that there are also fields for the various modalities of consciousness, such as the experience of color. This would imply that a big part of what makes the brain special (presumably) is its ability to interact with these extra fields. Just as physics allows energy/information to move between the fields in the standard model, perhaps the brain is able, by some mechanism, to transfer information to and from these other fields. For whatever reason, it feels "obvious" / intuitive to me that consciousness must be rooted in something very fundamental, just as phenomena like matter must be rooted in something very fundamental. It's also pretty clear that consciousness is strongly connected with information. And so it feels pretty intuitive to me that "fields" are a strong candidate for that. As to why particular fields would be "experiential" -- that's a tough one. The movie "the matrix" felt like it struggled with that -- maybe that's why we've long had the intuition about "the soul". It feels as though our "physical" universe might be contained within a larger, richer reality, that we can hardly fathom.

[@travispluid3603]

Ah yes, Tam Hunt, the "Affiliate Guess". XP

[@jumpkickman1993]

Our consciousness is using quantum physics to exist. Not Newtonian physics. This is what makes it so hard to pin down.

[@charlieteneyck6797]

I completely relate to talking to yourself when alone. I am constantly debating a thought or line of thoughts with myself. My wife will catch me doing it at times and it cracks her up. Lol

[@TheDeadlyDan]

My two experiences that come to mind around this involve an absence of resonance rather than a presence. In the middle of Death Valley, after a long hike up the highest hill, I was struck with a lack of life around me. If I closed my eyes, I could distinctly "feel" that lack. The same lack was readily apparent in Antarctica. You could feel that the people around you was the only life around. Ever since my sport karate days, when they'd blindfold me and I'd have to practice blocking what I couldn't see . . . I've wondered if 'life' was some sort of resonance of energy.

[@brianswelding]

Its great that science is just starting to scratch the surface of what the Yogis have been saying for literally thousands of years. Great video as always Joe!

[@PartyRockAdviser]

5:53 "Is the son conscious"? I don't know. Turn off the XBox and see if he still moves. :)

[@jesipohl6717]

determinism-compatabilist dual aspect pan-proto exprientialism in the house! We are all just surfaces interacting and some surfaces can recreate the original event (through many mechnisms). This has some interesting ramifications for functionalism. Also, regarding neural networks, it's important to understand that brain "network" models are approximations of reality. The brain is of course a water-wheel hooked up to a quantum computer (quantum processes due govern molecular interactions...).

[@Cardgames4children]

The fantastic book Godel, Escher, Bach focuses heavily on this exact question. I haven't finished it myself, but it is quite phenomenal. Self-reference is a big theme, too. I suspect that self-reference, different levels of hierarchies (like an object language vs a meta language and a meta meta language, etc), and formalism/rules of interaction might have something to do with consciousness itself, which is basically a "self-referential human". The book also explores these things, too. And formal mathematics. Fascinating stuff.

[@zhubajie6940]

Oooh Kaaay??? Sounds too Marianne Williamson and Deepak Chopra for me.

[@luigithegreat1331]

My vibrations will be hurting after a deep video this early.

[@cg21]

What you describe at 7:00 is basically emergence of complexity in dynamic systems. Something I strongly believe in for over a decade by now: We as a consciousness emerge from the more simple structures that make us up physically in conjunction with being loosely coupled with the beings around us. From this in turn groups and another level up civilization emerges.

[@Jay-cj7xu]

The Beach Boys of that same era were my first show too. First 4 actually. I grew up in Wildwood, NJ, an island with a huge beach and they would co.w every July and play a big show on the sand in front of the boardwalk.

[@therocinante3443]

It's like mind string theory!

[@SmashedHatProject]

2067:"Science disproves the existence of consciousness"

[@monad_tcp]

nah, 2080, that was a mistake, science actually creates consciousness in a computer.

[@SethBuster]

Gorgeous! I love ❤️ your work ! You have such talent! Awesome work!

[@justinperrotta2701]

My first concert was the beach boys! It was out doors on some big field.

[@GimmieUtoob]

I mean this as kindly as possible: you need a new woo woo alarm.

[@albertmiller2electricbooga897]

Could you make a video on type 1 diabetes research?

[@Sciencerely]

Great idea! Don't want to be obstrusive but I have recently made a video about using stem cells to treat type 1 diabetes (I am a stem cell researcher, there are currently some promising clinical trials!) Hope that helps!

[@XAEA-13]

Joe, if you haven't already studied it, Yogic philosophy has been breaking down the fundamental nature of consciousness since its inception. There's a lot to learn and regurgitate in the simple, succinct way that you specialize in. Great content today regardless, I continue to look forward to your weekly videos!

[@tamboman8209]

Joe, A lengthy but interesting study of your short video is addressed by Doug Vogt of the Diehold Foundstion.

[@lostwizard]

Joe: ...russian nesting doll Me: I see where this is going...wait for it Joe: ...all the way down... Me: wait for it.... Joe: to the vibrations in quantum fields Me: drat! foiled again...but maybe wait for it? Joe: It's turtles all the way down! Me: Woohoo! Turtles!

[@maxximumb]

We're just a meatbag with ideas above our station. It's all a bunch of electro-chemical reactions.

[@spackle9999]

We're hamburger with delusions of grandeur? How is that less amazing?

[@maxximumb]

@Chirag Patel The dying of a heart attack is not because we can't it's because we don't have a shelf full of spare hearts available. Quite a few people with heart disease who are already in the transplant system are routinely saved temporarily to keep them alive till their new heart is ready. As to the blood loss, once the brain is starved of oxygen, the neurons, glial, astrocytes and microglia die. When they die they become damaged beyond repair. It's not like putting more petrol into an empty gas tank and restarting a car. It's more like putting petrol in the empty gas tank of a car that was just put through a crusher. It won't help. While it would be nice to think humans are something special, it took the universe 13.8 billion years to spit us out. We exist for 70 years or so, then we stop and nothing we did during that 70 years has any impact on the universe that a few thousand years can't erase. We're just another animal. As I said a meatbag with an attitude.

[@maxximumb]

@@spackle9999 I don't think that it's not amazing. I mean 13.8 billion years of random events eventually leading to me is bloody amazing. I'm just saying that the bit of the meatbag that makes me isn't cosmically special or linked to the universe in some shared consciousness I don't know enough quantum theory to say my electrons aren't all interlinked with everything, or if that one theory about there being only one electron that the whole universe shares. But for humans to think that we're special and share deep conscious link it triggering my woowoo alarm. I was born with basically a blank brain. Experiences shape the connections my neurons made. Some get pruned off, others are reinforced and backed up by other neuron paths. My choice for what I had for breakfast wasn't free will as such, but it was based on my life experience and the connections made during those experiences. Why didn't I have a full roast beef dinner for breakfast? I could, I have free will. But through my experience I've 'taught' my brain that breakfast food are what I eat in the morning. I don't even consider a roast beef dinner. My consciousness is an expansion of that. It's the sum of my neuron's configuration and the electro-chemical actions triggered by the structure and the reactions to external stimulus based on prior experiences and the neuron structures built by them. It's all bloody amazing, but when I die, it all stops.

[@spackle9999]

@@maxximumb A perfectly valid viewpoint. Or at least, it would be if we didn't know so much more about the non-local nature of the matter involved in you choosing your breakfast. Particles are perturbations in a field. They simply do not exist as separate entities. You claiming autonomy over your own set of particles makes as much sense as someone claiming the time 5:05 from the 24 clock. That may well be your subjective experience, but it isn't the whole picture.

[@AerialTheShamen]

In a nutshell, we are not more than a couple of elastomer molecules making and breaking complicated crosslinks by interacting with cosmic consciousness through quantum noise (you may call it prana) and so produce memory and awareness. 🤔 (Hence brain matter is such terribly sticky.🙂) People meditating in latex trance know, latex conducts consciousness. 🧘🎈🧠☯

[@User-op3nr]

I took a few classes with Schooler at UCSB. He teaches a class on the science of mindfulness and other emerging psychological fields beyond the established curriculum. Really cool guy.

[@ollywright]

A very interesting subject! If you like that you'll also probably like Penrose + Hameroff's ORC-OR theory of consciousness.