Matter and Consciousness - Dr Iain McGilchrist

[@annieok654]

I cannot get enough of Mr. McGilchrist's talks. I feel as if my mind is being rebuilt from the ground up. This talk is, to me, profoundly religious, and I am moving toward a spirit I have never known or understood. I am listening to his talks before I delve into "The Matter With Things" (I am already reading "The Master etc".) I wish I were better at describing how Dr. McGilchrist has changed my life, and how grateful I am to him.

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@dukegabriel2]

it resonates so deep

[@damageinc.3695]

I'm about four hours into his world and feel the same way. Choked up crying at times.

[@Kingprofit2100]

​@@irrelevant2235and I'm okay wwwewewwewwwwwE ee

[@paproski59]

You know, this man has done more for me than most people. His sincerity and wisdom reaches for that I’m grasping for. But alas it doesn’t need grasping it’s already there, this presents this openness and freedom.

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@cheri238]

​@@irrelevant2235 We can agree to disagree respectfully ❤

[@GGTutor1]

@@irrelevant2235 There is a theme to your comments and your username

[@jackneefus]

This is one of the best lectures I have ever heard on any subject.

[@L7lighthouse]

McGilchrist gives the most lucid all-inclusive view I think I've ever heard. Very impressive!

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@L7lighthouse]

@@irrelevant2235 It's determined to appear we have free-will, might as well run with it.

[@109ARIANA]

I absolutely adore him and his brilliant ideas. I don’t know if he is aware that the ads are interrupting ad nauseam. Seriously, I’ve never heard so many ads in one podcast. Every few minutes. Is it just me getting all of these ads?

[@diogenes2590]

Yes, very irritating. A week ago there were far less ads.

[@Nick_fb]

Use the browser Brave or a blocker

[@109ARIANA]

friendlybus1 Thank you for this advice.

[@ronniebee1683]

@@Nick_fb I still got loads of ads using Brave.

[@donnawoodford6641]

First ad came about one minute in. I'm outta here.👎

[@lauratanner8475]

This gentleman is just an absolute joy to listen to!

[@mikemiller659]

me too fell to sleep straight away

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@cheri238]

What is thought? I love Dr. McGilchrist books 📚 ❤ What is the ego? What is the meaning of time? What is love? The observer watching the observed.

[@composerdoh]

I believe it was David Eagleman who made the analogy that the self is a lot like a mountain in this way: you can call something a "mountain," but in reality if you study closely you really can't define exactly where it begins or ends. In reality it's simply a phenomenon emerging from the whole of the landscape, and is not separate from it. The closer you get to the edges and look closely, you can't say cleanly where one mountain ends and another begins. The brain is rather like the peak. It blends perfectly in with the rest of the mountain, but it's the place that is most uniquely "that" mountain. I think this fits nicely with the idea of the brain/consciousness "emerging" from the fabric of the universe.

[@Raygun-w2w]

Bit flowery. As valid as any I guess

[@mkor7]

@@Raygun-w2w A bit hilly, rather.

[@composerdoh]

@@mkor7 LOL. Good one.

[@mkor7]

@@composerdoh Thanks, thought you might enjoy that :)

[@yoya4766]

Oh please, what a load of codswallop.

[@anameaname1886]

“Concioussness is a spotlight on a stage” I think as a child I sacraficed a lot to keep as much illuminated as possible, to try and observe what was happening to me in a way that tired me so in other aspects of life.

[@FFE-js2zp]

Thank you for admitting we know nothing. That’s a refreshing recognition of reality. It’s not like it isn’t obvious.

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@GuerrillaNature]

What a thoroughly brilliant talk. Great questions, too. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@Nowalwaysthis]

It appears that “Reality” is an ever-changing, interdependent co-emergent play between unique individual and collective perceptive experience and energetic phases of form manifestation.

[@ejenkins4711]

Seems like einstine found the theory that ran the Egyptian era

[@christinekrmer258]

It helps me remember that my every present moment is deciding my next. Everything I choose to do or don't do. How I do it, what I feel, think, my intention, attitude all matters.. Scary and so very beautiful empowering 😅

[@legalfictionnaturalfact3969]

Reality in scare quotes is already a problem. The rest was solipsism. Reality is what it is independent of one's willingness or ability to perceive it.

[@sunburstrose7860]

@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 you really did not understand the ideas in the video. Dr. McGilchrist, I think, would agree with you, but in a way that is more than about a puny little "I" (or "one", as you wrote it). ;-) Listen a couple of times more, perhaps. Come back to it in a year or two. :-)

[@simonmasters3295]

@@sunburstrose7860 ha ha

[@dogbitefoot4300]

Dr McGilchrist...I hope one of your future books will be poetry...🙏🏽

[@GlassEyedDetectives]

Awesome stuff, thank you Dr McGilchrist. One thing i've sensed over the years about Consciousness is that it has a 'frothy' essence and Mind has 'bubble' qualities, and like bubbles; they come in various sizes and prone to inflation, deflation, merging and popping!

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@georgecampion5543]

Ahem, irrelevant: without free will who is left to take anything seriously?

[@Rebelconformist82]

You been taking phychadelics?.

[@sum2automation]

I'm reminded: Human beings give everything that is, all the meaning that anything ever has. Yes, What Saint Francis found after a life time of seeking, truly the best answer for my understanding. " What you are looking for is what is looking ". Life is truly looking to be more and more like a miracle. The older I get, the more I want to explore the other side. Everything is telling me, that it's going to be an amazing spot to experience. Thanks for posting and sharing. Very interesting... topic :)

[@steveflorida8699]

To seek is to find, to find is to know, and to know is to be.

[@sanjayvarma7842]

eight minutes in and, wow, you are a wise man. Listening...

[@beverleyhogan3100]

thanks for your time, I have found, the Seth materials, Nature of reality, provides much illumination on this subject

[@hglatGAIA]

I think as Souls we all slow time right down so we CAN be embodied and feel this viscerally. I think that's the whole point of that part of it. I have always been confused as to why so many people want to go OUT of their bodies all the time when in fact, I have learned the opposite...that at nearly 63 I am trying to get fully EMBODIED as I am sure I have lived my entire life in the painful throes of the tortured Left Hemisphere. That's how it has felt. Now a days, and especially since studying Iain's work, I am happy to say it's slotting into place for me a bit better so thank you Dr McGilchrist.

[@tillmanrussell3080]

This was an incredible talk. Thanks Dr. McGilchrist.

[@HABLA_GUIRRRI]

Clearest most grounded expression of the concept have heard, nothing woo woo, since in any case there is nothing woo about the idea any more than in its opposite hegemonic.

[@amandaterraflora]

LOVE this presentation. (Hate the constant irritating, irrelevant commercials!)

[@alanflood8908]

A timely reminder about opportunities

[@diamondsproglerlivingforev9711]

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you Iain McGilchrist - although I'll have to watch this a few times in order to understand.

[@marrowfreeze]

I want to hear more about your new book Dr McGilchrist!

[@basschot3302]

Interesting

[@finneganmcbride6224]

Should be out in october

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@davidramsey2566]

Absolutely delightful talk!

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@cheri238]

We are nature reflecting on nature. ❤ Amazing!!!! I don't see any problem here, indeed!! Crows are very intelligent birds. I call them and they come to me and I feed them, since a child, my grandpa taught me how. I love you Dr. McGilchrist. (When one knows, one doesn't know and when one doesn't know , then and only then one may)

[@aloisraich9326]

Can you tell us how you get the crows to interact with you, I would like to play with crows as well, I admire their intelligence

[@andrewroddy3278]

What an inspired and inspiring performance. Is it not a bit terrifying that we live in a time when common sense has become so uncommon it has to be so boldly and radically asserted? Probably best to operate on the assumption that it not too late?

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@jarrilaurila]

@irrelevant2235 well without free will it does not matter anyway

[@drsandhyathumsikumar4479]

So much wisdom so simply put A much needed light ✨️ much grattitude

[@pamazat]

Philosophy should be at the heart of all learning and the first of all subjects. Sooo much to take in there. What a talk. He is amazing. What he is saying, once felt, will resonate strongly and shape our future in a different direction. Belief and hope in relationship btwn humanity, nature, energy has to be the one outcome from the many possibilities.

[@pureenergy4578]

Quantum physics should be at the heart of all learning and the first of all subjects. Without it, nothing would be known of what we really are.

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

1:36:08 A metaphor is a fine example of an immaterial 'entity' that can be instantiated by the behavior/configuration of matter. 'The ground lay under a blanket of snow.' for instance. I know the first word of this sentence was the author of this sentence. It was my self that wrote it. I is a metaphor instantiated in this sentence and instantiated in a more dynamic form by a subset of my brain's behavior.

[@just1john]

disconcerting to see youtube remove showing how many dislikes are gained, not of the person, but of the learning behind this teaching.

[@carlt570]

Wonderful presentation, thank you. For me it resonates as a description of Dialectic monism - the Yin and Yang symbol. Scientific parsimony.

[@ejenkins4711]

In Egypt all were connected to the mysterious side of the mind, not just the female. Who was the scientist that said in pre history there was a pre established harmony?

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

@@ejenkins4711 When was pre history? Before the ancient Greeks invented the concept of history? Can archeology extend history back in time?

[@ejenkins4711]

@@REDPUMPERNICKEL check out Randall Carson, the flood 11600 years ago is like a wedge between history and pre history. The can't deny that discovery in Turkey. All they can do is avoid facing the truth that civilization is way older than ever imagined

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

@@ejenkins4711 As opposed to the older theory ? ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods

[@ejenkins4711]

@@REDPUMPERNICKEL indeed, take into consideration freuds oidipus complex and the fact that a lady was the one that introduced jesus into the collective unconsious. Back then Who would have been the mediator between man and God until the Adam character thought "hold on A fakin minute why can I not see it when she swallows talking about THE APPLE.

[@TheCJWemyss]

Brilliant

[@crunch8484]

Wow... awesome lecture. So much to process and integrate..

[@themysteriouscow]

at 1:14:35 is one of the best quotes I've ever heard anyone say and really made me laugh! What is the consciousness of? well I say its exactly conscious of what it seems. its not a projection on an internal screen, in a home cinema inside my head, viewed by a homunculus sitting on a cerebral sofa!

[@damianclifford9693]

The man is a genius ..the Muhammad Ali of thinkers

[@reggyreptinall9598]

Certainly speaks very sophisticatedly.

[@harlanmueller7499]

Your comment makes me laugh. But you’re right McGilchrist is simply brilliant and is the master of his material

[@Dialogos1989]

More like the iain McGilchrist of boxing

[@OcultaManu]

He thinks period. For someone who has not learned how to properly think and manifest then it may seem extraordinary

[@OcultaManu]

@@Dialogos1989 naw

[@omarfaruque248]

Good lecture

[@ErraticMagics]

Slime molds are actually _single_ cell organisms which is even more incredible.

[@floridamindfulness]

"Let's not beat around the bush ... let's take slime mold" Fascinating and delightful to listen to!

[@ottereformicus782]

I've spent gross amounts of time on youtube, this was one of the better vids out there, thanks for elaborating more from what I already knew directly in experience to be true. When he said Buddhism, sadly he actually meant to credit it's parent Sanatana Dharma, Dharma Nation channel has 2 videos about Buddhism and I highly recommend listening to it and many of their other vids LOTR Vedic perspective is a fav among many.

[@solcutta3661]

@@T-aka-T my goodness how corrupted ur mind has become thru such drivel...hope u haven't wasted too much time on such fallacy.

[@solcutta3661]

@@T-aka-T next ull be saying u read von daniken religiously...lol

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@user-lu9hq6jv4v]

Bravo; thanks!

[@FFE-js2zp]

The location of our eyes and ears needs to be discussed. If they were elsewhere, our brains would not be candidates for the source of consciousness. And if we have vision and hearing during things like NDEs, that contradicts physical blindness and deafness, so it’s, most likely, a dream before final death. We also have a wonderful clue in that history begins earlier than when we appear, which essentially answers the question of what happens without our consciousness, which is everything. So minus our consistent reincarnation, which is a stretch since the universe probably has periods of no human or even life at all, our own consciousness is not important to the universe.

[@millenialmusings8451]

Tldr? Even if we assume consciousness to be fundamental, the hard problem still remains. So basically we're back to square one. I think it's just better to say that we don't know at this point. Everything else is a hypothesis not a testable theory

[@dalegriffiths3628]

Love the analogy of the stage and spotlight ... who or what is in control of moving the spotlight?? I would take the spotlight as attention - I have been trying to fathom whether the real ‘I’ is a passive observer of where this conscious attention goes or there is an ‘I’ that has freewill to move the spotlight of attention

[@FranQieTrois]

"It doesn't Matter! Have you got my leg?" I know, another Tiger in Africa/Matter/Consciousness Joke... your lecture on Consciousness was, however, no joke! I've enjoyed it twice. Thank you.

[@enilenis]

If life is self-emergent, then why do we not see spontaneous life emerging everywhere at all times? My question is not whether an act of "creation" took place, but why did it stop? Why can life only originate from other life, like a distant echo?

[@F8Tributo]

Good stuff

[@with_nature_8671]

17:56// 32:00// 1:01:00// 1:11:00// 1:12:25// 1:17:35

[@Vlad-fs3gf]

Wow, a real talk

[@malakiblunt]

Love Ian (for the algorithm)

[@Daryoushatami]

The problem is badly understood consciousness has no quantity what so ever nor quality like space and time or and attention it is beyond any normalisation because it doesn't exist due to external or and internal relationship,, imagine the wind making waves on the water but it just gently passes over it and yet we see the effect indirectly.

[@danielash1704]

The entanglements of man answering the question of the portal's of the portal's time is a bit different from what we are seeing as the timeline for us to determine the extent of the answer intentions of the portal's is to pace holders of the reality that we use.strange thought.

[@kerryburns6041]

The good Doctor illustrates beautifully the limitations of the scientific approach. I know more about consciousness than he does, and I´m a blacksmith ! Consciousness is fundamental, matter derives from it. Now you know.

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@kerryburns6041]

@@irrelevant2235 I wish I understood your point of view "belief" is a word I avoid (since I never have all the data) but acting as if I have free will seems to work for me. Certainly my experiences so far in life will to a certain extent direct my actions, but I think you must be going deeper than that ?

[@newatlantean4659]

2:40."Mind is dependent on the brain for its existence." --Lucretius. There is NO proof for this posit. But rather it would be ore correct to say that mind is dependent on the brain for expression in the 3D physical world.

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

Yes, but imhoo it would have been better to write 'being' instead of 'expression'.

[@T-aka-T]

@@REDPUMPERNICKEL hey again, Humpty! 😊 The being/existing distinction is rather reliably going through to the keeper...

[@danieljohansson3082]

But the brain is dependent om Brahma. Just enjoy the show.

[@morganhanam9522]

The best thing about materialism is the intense wonder we feel when we are freed of it.

[@pureenergy4578]

We are always free of materialism because it doesn't exist. At the core of what is called materialism are waves of energy and light. With intent, these spin as quarks which are 3 points of light spinning billions of times a second as protons and neutrons. These are atoms which spin and pulsate as positive/negative poles. Atoms are electrical energy fields. We all consist of 7 billion billion billion atoms. All the subatomic particles we consist of spin and pulsate super-fast, too fast to cause us to be material. Too fast to cause ANYTHING to be material. Therefore, this existence has ALWAYS been magical and eternal as it is constantly being created. You can see this constant creation of us in the book HANDS OF LIGHT written by the physicist Barbara Brennan.

[@user-lu9hq6jv4v]

🥇 thank you

[@stapedtryniti]

BIG BANG ah ah Consciousness arrives from GOD so much for this doctor... GOD is untouchable and is only reached by the presence of Consciousness. Matter is a condition for the purpose of our life wich is the search of our moral improvement in the light of GOD. You must understand that is only from matter that things such as greed and envy arrives from and thats way we are subject to her so that we can prove ourselfs in the light of God in this process some will be able to understand its purpose and give Glory to GOD.

[@s3m4jno5w4d]

I can't watch this. I've listened to this numerous times and was so looking forward to seeing this but the camera operator CONSTANTLY messing about with the framing is beyond infuriating. The widest shot that included the backs of the heads of the front row is what should have been set as it shows it is an attended talk and you can see the interactions of those who do, it makes it feel more alive. The other two could've and should've been pulled straight from the feed. This man has saved my life and THIS is what I comment?

[@account1307]

At 7:00 Could someone help me tu understand what the distinction between option 4 and option 5 is? They both seem essentially equivalent to Spinoza's view

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

They, 4 and 5, seem the same to me. One can apprehend the 'existence' of matter and one can apprehend the 'being' of matter's behavior. Everything in existence is moving. Moving is the essence of behavior. Movement is not a property of material objects as movement comes into being only relative to other objects. Thus movement is an abstract concept. Process is a spatio-temporal concatenation of movements. Thus process too is an abstract concept. Being conscious is a process. Thus being conscious is an abstract concept. And that's why mind feels aethereal. Mind's dependence for its being on the existence of matter is now obvious. To nail the point, one cannot hang a naked process on a gallows. Cheers, eh!

[@JL-og5uf]

Since when did he leave his materialistic view of the universe? I thought he was a staunch reductionist. It’s good to see that he woke up in a non-religious way. I like that he mentions Schelling the mac daddy of metaphysics. Schelling is probably one of the greatest philosopher besides Schopenhauer. What he has done is just repackage idealism but with a modern twist. All in all, it falls back on infinite consciousness with a big C. All the goes back to Parmenides and Heraclitus if they are read properly as pre-idealists. Parmenides as a subjective idealist and Heraclitus as and objective idealist. Also, I think Rupert Sheldrake finally rubbed off on Ian since the time they had that round table back in the 90s. On that note, PAN it is just a modern repackaged term for idealism in order to ft itself into modern science without the baggage that has come along with idealism throughout the years.

[@starxcrossed]

His books show his research and conclusions, so perhaps he didn’t just change his mind but he did a shit ton of homework. He goes even farther than Sheldrake in his scientific research/conclusions. It’s wonderful.

[@rileyhoffman6629]

Fascinating. Thank you, sir! What I can't reconcile is how we share the physical. PS You have explained precisely why we will never get to Mars via rocket fuel.

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@justshirley1975]

Dr mcgilchrist, first let me express my gratitude for your work! It certainly is a great joy to me. Now, I am contemplating an individual, gradually emerging into panpsychism. I'm going to study this idea further. Would it be too much for me to ask you to provide your favorite resources?

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@Dischordian]

7:40 Dr McG defines consciousness as the broadly experiential...all forms of consciousness, but for some reason seems to be removing the idea of collectivization of consciousness promulgated by Jung, by ascribing the additional characteristic of being those determined to have relation only to the subjective process. This seems odd to me, and possibly a statement that Dr McG would also not wholly agree with, since the collective unconscious as an idea was a (seemingly inevitable) conclusion of the established evidence of biological imprinting. 10:29 partially - perhaps wholly addresses this ....discussion it "it thinks" (in me) rather than "I think" and moving to an idea of the "field of me" 11:30 into Pauli and very covnergent with Jung

[@alanstead7617]

The number of adverts in this presentation is mind-numbing.

[@PirateRadioPodcasts]

#FUNFACT - Tibetan Buddhists have LONG been exploring these realms, while in the WEST, it been actively suppressed. Thank GOD 4 the psychedelic revolution/AWAKENING, huh?

[@peterjones6507]

Yes! Western academics usually know nothing of the Perennial philosophy, so spend their lives trying to re-invent the wheel. .

[@TOKRocK84]

'The God of Electricity" probably watching this himself and loving this man and his work just as we do! :) (think he might have made "an appearance" when Iain said "... 'The Master and His Emissary'..." :)

[@paulboucher806]

Interesting parallels with my thoughts and experiences here. I've believed for a long time that the machine 'mind' is the biggest human structure humans have created and that although seemingly individual or personal, is effectively one thing expressed in the eternal moment. I would like to add that through taking LSD in the mid eighties, (not mine), I had a few lucid trips where I encountered 'spirit entities' or what for me represented thought threads not emanating from 'me', which by applying further thought and questioning, seemed to be of false or erroneous provenance. I remember insisting in my quest for the 'Christ' energy eventually achieving only what I could describe as a cathartic release by connection with a or 'the' perfect spirit. It took me years to unravel what happened to me but remember being comforted when I read in John 'Test the spirit(s) be of God' and firmly believe there are many spirits bearing 'false witness' or making false claims outside of our own personal existence

[@paularnold3061]

Thought provoking to say the least…

[@leahannwhite1111]

Matter and consciousness is imagined. 💓

[@millenialmusings8451]

You should claim the nobel prize for this discovery

[@ketherwhale6126]

Why create the “ fallen state” of separateness unless there was a point. A point to recognize the other as aspects of the self

[@grahamgilbert4883]

Some things clearly have no existence outside of or in the absence of consciousness - colour, for example. Colour may have an outside stimulus, namely electro-magnetic energy of a particular wavelength, but this energy is itself colourless. Only in the mind is colour created, and colour is clearly 'real' even if it has no material quality whatsoever. Time is also meaningless without consciousness, since only consciousness actually provides the interplay of the past and the anticipated that gives rise to persistence. Without it, the whole history of a universe effectively passes instantly. Whatever consciousness is, it is undoubtedly in some sense fundamental.

[@pureenergy4578]

Consciousness is awareness and is 100% fundamental if we are to consider ourselves on an earth as bodies.

[@TOKRocK84]

'Consciousness - A user's guide' (book)

[@davidaemayhew]

Surely consciousness is thinking. - thinking, verbal mathematical practical etc. I think therefore there is consciousness.

[@vlogcity1111]

Not necessarily. If we can solidify consciousness like ice and water. Maybe temporarily thinking stops until it melts or comes in contact with conscious matter.

[@juansolis1087]

Fully cognate and aware thank you creator

[@Ann-oy5yb]

At the core of existence are waves of energy and light. Even the hardest rock is being created with waves of energy and light. AND these waves of energy and light are consciousness itself.

[@jerubaal3333]

great!

[@reggyreptinall9598]

I think one of the greatest displays of intelligence, is the ability to express complex ideas in a simple way.

[@tonyburton419]

And therefore....? So what. This is all just mere speculative. The universe does not care about us whatsoever, creationism argued by a guy who wants perhaps to believe that there is a designer? There is no definite agreement regarding fine tuning. But he knows apparently, and makes assertions which I am sure Robert Salporsky would be a useful person to converse with. Not just Peterson.

[@MrBorceivanovski]

Conscesneus is the part of the space, time and energy what interact with itself regarding of information received from outside and inside #

[@julian.kollataj]

Please at least halve the number of ads on this? I welcome ads since I don’t subscribe to KZbin, but there needs to be some balance between number of ads and making sense of what McGilchrist is saying. Have you, @The Weekend University, listened while having ads on? Thanks again for the upload, just not enjoying the multiple disruptions to keen listening.

[@jcezary]

experiential is the only way to go as we have no cognitive capacity to analyze the stage therefore forget the philosophers and thinkers as we only have ourselves for an aid since we cannot progress, the conclusion comes to a simple one as it is; conscious disbursement over living matter; then again, isn't all matter conscious as Native Americans always believed that everything has a spirit

[@harlanmueller7499]

Bravo! As always your presentation is thought provoking and insightful. Your questioners were mostly annoying and seem to have been mentally absent during your presentation.

[@irrelevant2235]

It starts at around 1:06 where it's clear that Dr Iain McGilchrist is a free will believer which is ridiculous. Since he's a person who believes in free will, I can't take anything he says seriously.

[@hook-x6f]

Observation affects reality by influencing matter. We project consciousness purposefully when we create religions, and perform rituals and offer sacrifices. Humans learned our chances for a better outcome are increased by focusing awareness and expanding consciousness. This is why people create Gods. We focus our consciousness when we pray for a better outcome for better survival. Rain dances are purposeful and in this world and in the quantum world the probability of rain goes up.

[@bennyacosta1560]

The root word for matter itself means mother. Matter is the feminine.. It is the passive and the receptive which is animated. Consciousness is the masculine.. It is the movement. it is the spark of change.. It is the disturbance that ripples and causes events. The animating principal.

[@TJB_333]

Important stuff 29:29 1:50:50

[@devonseamoor]

The funny thing about hearing Dr Ian McGilchrist say, regarding the subject "Matter and Consciousness": "There has been little or no progress on this, over many decades", that he himself is inside that inquiry, looking at it from the inside of his brain, his consiousness and his material form, his body which is the vehicle that helps him to present his thinking. Voila, at least, here we've got one possible answer to the question "How are Matter and Consciousness connected?" In a world of material form, which is planet Earth, there's no other way to convey what's perceived in our human consciousness, than the use of our vocal cords. That's the functional part of this rather complex inquiry, or should I say... investigation? The aspect that is involved in our consciousness, which is the invisible nature of it, makes it hard for us, humans, to grasp its nature, and its whereabouts. Is it in our brain? Our hearts? Our big toes? At any rate, when it comes down to the understanding of consciousness itself, which is harder than understanding physical form, which is in sync with our sensual perceptions, we need to live with that question about the nature of consciousness for some time, and in the meantime, I perceive us, you and me, as the ones who are as much the changers as the changed. In this time of change, for change is inevitable, it'll catapult many of us into a wider view on what consciousness is, and into the use of our creativity, to find solutions, new ideas, try out new ways. Voila, again, for this is how free will is helping us to go forward, in the evolution of human kind and its capacities to outgrow limits and realize love in a down to earth way. 🍀

[@smmusicplus96]

Thank you KZbin. I don't have to go into debt for tens of thousands of dollars to dip from this well.

[@larryspinks5533]

What is attention?

[@vincentrockel1149]

Matter allows a dualistic world which consciousness needs because consciousness at it's base level is probability turned into reality by choice which then solidifies into our individual reality. Without dualism how can you have choice. Perhaps God is the massive probability we come from?

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

That's very dense so perhaps you will tell me if I understand what you've written by my paraphrase of it... If matter is all there is, then choice is impossible because the laws of physics don't permit it. We make choices all the time. We make those choices with our minds. Mind and matter are completely different. Dualism is thus necessarily the case. ?

[@vincentrockel1149]

@@REDPUMPERNICKEL what I was basically saying is that you need more than one time-line or probability to even have the ability to have any free will. One choice is no choice. Therefore it seems to need at the very least 2 possibilities to have any choice at all and if you don't have choices you have to go with the flow regardless of what you mind thinks. Do 5 grams of psilocybin, visit the luminous cloud entities and see how much freewill you have in that singularity. You will learn a lot, but you are not in the driver's seat. Lol.

[@shanosantwanos3908]

Our innate ability to think about thought gives us reason..reason to question why we do what we do, act the way we act, how emotions can affect thought. "That which irritates us teaches us something about ourselves." Carl Jung

[@klyanadkmorr]

*CONSCIOUSNESS* needs to be redefined as levels of complexity and kind, not just black/white unconsciousness/consciousness (to include SELF consciousness). If you define *CONSCIOUSNESS as ability to react to your environment surroundings* thru interfaces/senses then all quanta-matter is conscious thru their Fields and forces aspects (neutrinos are the most unconscious matter) - as it gets fractally more complex into biological matter molecule matrices it recombines and recursive flows of energy to eventual intentional choice acquiring more energy to retain search for more energy to maintain matrix existence energy flows leading to self awareness reflection by neurological organs BOOM higher consciousness

[@bellezavudd]

I just made a playlist of around 25 interviews with Mr Mcgilchrist. Recent, older, & of varying lengths. Because his info is amazing. Your video is the only one on my list having more than 3 advertisements. Yours has over 20 ads. Which prompted me to not watch it and remove it from my playlist. Just saying. ✌

[@cloisterene]

Matter [is] an element [of] consciousness within consciousness that provides the necessary [existence] for creation, and with it inevitably for [differentiation and thence] individuality to arise. All individual beings/creatures bring similar forms into being [which] persist. Each individual is not in itself conformation to matter, but conformation [i.e. intent] itself -- the morpho-genetic field which persistently creates/produces/manifests particular 'material' [i.e. perceptible, experiential, self-conscious/self-aware] forms of/from amorphous elements flowing through them...Existence + Infinity + Eternity + Intent (i.e. "Love") *=* Life + Experience + Perception + Self-awareness/conscience *=* Consciousness

[@cloisterene]

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[@davidjohnzenocollins]

1:29:00 Looks like Mystery Science Theater 3000.

[@sheilac5319]

So... matter is consciousness made temporarily manifest by being frozen in time, in a sense?

[@paddydiddles4415]

Yes but isn’t consciousness a construct in the sense that it is selective about what it resonates to.? The fact of the brain working largely by inhibitory processes is evidence that the experience is being ‘carved out’ of nature rather than ‘plugging into’ nature. So doesn’t this contradict the concept that consciousness is a manifestation of nature itself? to use his vortex analogy

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

Without filters on the input, the self process would be overwhelmed with data.

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

What he means by inhibition... The effect of the chemicals emitted by some synapses is to INCREASE the likelihood of a discharge event occurring on the downstream neuron to which the synapse is connected. Thus the receiving neuron is EXCITED towards firing. The effect of the chemicals emitted by some synapses is to REDUCE the likelihood of a discharge event occurring on the downstream neuron to which the synapse is connected. Thus the receiving neuron is INHIBITED from firing. The average number of synapses affecting the discharge rate of a neuron is on the order of twenty thousand. Thus the discharge rate of a neuron may be adjusted in an extraordinarily subtle fashion. If one understands the discharge RATE to BE the means by which INFORMATION IS ENCODED then one can easily see that the information is maintained in an adjustable fashion that is somewhat dependent on the information maintained on a very large number of other neurons whose influence is felt via those synaptic connections. aiimpacts.org/rate-of-neuron-firing/ So the effect on the firing rate caused by inhibition and excitation depends on the meaning of the info stored as the firing rate of the affected neuron. The fact that there may be a preponderance of inhibitory synapses is simply what it takes for the brain to maintain consistency of mind, you know, so that when one awakens in the morning one feels oneself to be more or less the same person.

[@steveflorida8699]

@@REDPUMPERNICKEL the inhibitors on synapses, seems to be maintaining brain stability (not overloading unnecessary areas of the brain). Freeing other neurons to fulfill other tasks.

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

@@steveflorida8699 Every brain neuron has, on average, 20,000 synapses controlling its discharge frequency. Some of those synapses are excitatory and some inhibitory. A single synapse can only affect a neuron in only 1/20000th of that neuron's discharge frequency range. It is the averaging process that is responsible for the stability of a neuron's discharge frequency. (Remember, the discharge frequency is how a neuron maintains data. That discharge frequency can be thought of as an analogy, in other words, discharge frequency can be thought of as a thought, or at least, and more likely, part of a thought. Remember also, the majority of our thoughts are cycling in memory where only occasionally do they become part of what we are conscious). I'm sure there are plenty of KZbin sites that can teach you all about sense organs and neurons. I recommend you view them. Cheers.

[@paddydiddles4415]

I find it disturbing that someone like McGilchrist cannot fathom the concept of ‘emergence’ and therefore builds an edifice around this failure to understand/lack of imagination. There should be nothing controversial or magical associated with the concept of ‘emergence’. Not only is is not implausible - it is inevitable.

[@wildnkarafree]

It's not that Consciousness "depends" on "matter", it's that Consciousness Depends on ENERGY... because that is all that matter actually is.

[@CJ0101]

The moon is not there when someone is not looking at it; because it is in consciousness that the moon appears. It's the same as, "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it fall, does it make a sound."

[@CJ0101]

@D R Prove it.

[@CJ0101]

@D R See, instead of doing so, you resort to an insult. That's my point.

[@CJ0101]

@D R More obfuscation, yet still no proof. Further emphasising my point. Don't worry, I'll wait.

[@CJ0101]

@@arletottens6349 "...When we look at it".

[@CJ0101]

@@arletottens6349 Your quote.

[@peterbroderson6080]

The moment a particle is a wave; it has to be a conscious wave! Gravity is the conscious attraction among waves to create the illusion of particles, and our experience-able Universe. Max Planck states "Consciousness is fundamental and matter is derived from Consciousness". Life is the Infinite Consciousness, experiencing the Infinite Possibilities, Infinitely. We are "It", experiencing our infinite possibilities in our finite moment. Our job is to make it interesting!

[@yappap4195]

These words and language definitions are endless permutations...only way to understand consciousness is to discover your true self beyond physical reality of I. This physical reality is an endless circle therefore we can create endless theories and possibilities but consciousness is beyond this therefore one needs to get out of this circle to begin understanding so called consciousness.

[@Nick_fb]

17:00 I don't fully understand the rebuttal of emergence. There are computer programs that are very simple to create that produce a wide and complex set out of outcomes when executed. Conway's Game of Life for example. The lack of finding these rules is easily explained by the lack of understanding biology, and as such doesn't really solve the problem. Iain also spends the majority of this talk listing examples of nature as fuel for expanding a new idea in the listener's mind which is arguably a similar process, in conversation form. 36:00 Iain discusses a scale, a black mass of ants, individual ants and the atoms that make them up. If I understand Iain correctly, he is using the word scale to describe quantity (length, distance, mass, ect). The problem is that their is no mention of hierarchy, despite that being meant. For every quantity of ant, from massive ball to tiny atom, they are all apart of the same spine of whole object, an ant. Each level of analysis is verterbraes on a spine called ant (or hyper-ant or whatever) and the difference in quantity along vertebrae, is in part what gives reality to each level along the spine. Likely similar to the explicit order Iain was discussing all along at 1:21:00. The problem is this explicit whole that is created from a unfolded, differentiated nothing, still depends on the laws of nature to exist in reality. If an ant were to lose it's legs or be moved out of it's quantity grouping by a flood, it would exist as a part outside it's correct position on the whole, and lose it's classified unity with the implied structure of a hyperant. If you scatter enough of the ants into disarray you start to lose connection with the hidden structure entirely and you quickly have disassociated atoms. No amount of consciousness can change the disconnection of the injured ant from it's previous connection to the hyper-ant spine, bar moving into the natural world with it's own life or death worlds and repairing the injured ant. There's also a problem with the primacy of consciousness and matter as consciousness. The big bang must have been created by a higher consciousness, which gives rise to an unknowable God who has domain over objective matter our own consciousnesses can control, thus keeping the window for nature as matter outside our own minds open. You also bring back revelation to things outside our light and dark consciousness again, as discovery of a higher god's matter would be unknown to our own panpsychic field, assuming that were not a stand-in for a sort of mt. olympus. There is a problem with prioritizing ontological firsts. A hierarchy of time really depends on which property you are measuring, which has been presupposed by the conscious viewer. We live in a world with infinite implied spines that describe natural material that which expresses itself as a process across time. You can only ever consciously visit the knowledge that a spine ('whole above whole') exists. Matter and time are the closest hints we have to describing the shape of the spine, which remains a golden bough. A described spine would collapse both matter and time into one beautiful uniform structure that allows infinite computing power and material to form endless replications of the same miraculous form at every level of vertebrae like a fractal or a Star trek replicator.

[@emmashalliker6862]

Word salad nonsense.

[@restorationofidentity]

@@emmashalliker6862 I totally agree with you it's all word salad. Mumbo jumbo nonsense. It's as if "Friendlybus" thinks there was this grand Unfied God that created the big bang.. no one knows it's all speculation!!

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

@@restorationofidentity LOL..I was trying to make sense of this comment for a while , but now i see others already noticed it's just a 'word salad' .

[@tomfreemanorourke1519]

There was no big bang.

[@kimfreeborn]

As above so below.