My Neurons, My Self

With ever more refined techniques for measuring complex brain activity, scientists are challenging the understanding of thought, memory and emotion-what we have traditionally called “the self.” How do electrical and chemical currents translate to self-awareness? And why does the brain produce consciousness at all? Join a discussion among eminent neuroscientists, philosophers and psychologists who are redefining what it means to be human.
This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation.
Original Program Date: June 5, 2016
MODERATOR: Bill Blakemore
PARTICIPANTS: Martha Farah, Joy Hirsch, Jesse Prinz, Daphna Shohamy
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Bill Blakemore's Introduction 00:00
Where Do You Locate Your Sense Of Self 4:30
Participant Introductions 8:20
Is there a Neurobiology of collective consciousness? 12:22
What happens when two brains are in a dialog with each other 17:00
How do brains differ from texting vs. face to face 21:38
What is TBJ? 25:40
What is the difference between awareness and attention? 26:09
How does memory define "self" 32:48
We make decisions NOT base on our experiences but based on our memories 41:15
When memories go does self go as well? 47:29
How human taste dictates our social groups 56:23
How actively we interrogate and seek information from others 1:02:26
What is Neuroskepticism? 1:09:35
Can we make determinations that consciousness is connected to the physical? 1:14:35
If we made a human clone would it have the same mind? 1:23:40
What does neuroscience have to say about freewill? 1:26:50
What parts of the brain are active while experiencing morality? 1:31:18
What is the connection between PTSD and the experience of memory? Can your brain be rewired? 1:34:14

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[@moiquiregardevideo]

We live in the present only. The past is represented by our distorted memories. My memory is what makes myself different from anybody else. If my memory get erased, I die (Short Circuit 2). However, it could be not that bad if I can learn the same thing in a shorter time. It is refreshing to hear so many people who bring their own opinion in a complementary way. The questions are pertinent and help the conversation to progress.

[@clydegray9714]

You can not step in the same water twice. Life is the experience, the memory. Who you are, who you was. Who you became. One never knows how big of a fool he can be. Until life gives you the chance. Take the day and be glad. Screw the details. It's your life charlie brown

[@graemegeorgeharrison2468]

Who are we without our memories, I’m struggling to retrieve or make new ones, we live in a world where people want to know who you are, without it it’s hard to relate and communicate with the outside world, it’s a struggle

[@jonwatts2370]

I love the WSF so much. Thank you to everybody that participates in putting these videos on KZbin. I may never get to go in person so it's nice to be able to take it in at home.

[@harrycoleman6208]

I was thinking the exact same thing Jon. That also includes The Perimeter Institute, FermiLabs, Gersham college, Seti, USC, University of Arizona, and on and on. The internet as it was meant to be

[@simonac4811]

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[@vFly]

5 years later, you need to do this again and update us

[@parusudi1]

One of the greatest panels on this show. Bill Blakemore is a most enchanting host.

[@Inertia888]

My self is whatever I am experiencing in this moment. Weather or not I have memory of my past, or anxieties about the future. It consists of all that adds up to the moment that I am currently in.

[@GalenMatson]

I love Joy Hirsch, she's so energetic I could tell she is excited about her research!

[@shawnpalmer6715]

a real breakthru would be if somehow while the hooked up experimentee 's dreams could be seen on a wide screen that would be a great movie

[@shawnpalmer6715]

with all of the hookups in the labs it certainly seems possilble

[@ginikadike6975]

I feel it is always nicer when we hold space to contemplate before dishing out our opinions or other products as answers to questions. We all seem to be prepossessed with the desperation to prove ourselves from a sense of importance perhaps due to the many things we have learnt that we do not allow the space for the truth to be channeled through us.

[@LCbr1j]

Wonderful beautiful talk about who we are ... I think all of us are fascinated with who we are...this made me appreciate the ingredients of what we are made of...

[@YashoShasho]

We should also discuss how hormones affect how the brain works. For example how testosterone and estrogen effects how humans behave. Also there is oxitocin and how that rewards the brain for socializing which is key to our survival as a species.

[@miguelrosado7649]

We are a brain, the stuff that we think to be ourselves (I, me, thinker, lover, etc.) are tools/creations of the brain. Nature created quantum intelligence and we are it. The brain is using all available information (conscious and subconscious) to output it’s will, we are the conduit for the conscious output of the brain.

[@peterlloyd4447]

I suffer PTSD from early childhood sexual abuse and am currently learning to re-complete myself without insecurities. THAT IS PRESENTING MORE N MORE TRIGGERS THOUGH AND UNEXPLAINABLE SYNCHRONICITIES.

[@samprada9298]

❤️❤️❤️💪💪💪

[@blahboidblah]

I suffer from teenage sexual abuse and CPTSD. The only thing that has helped me is LSD. It rewired my brain to be a functional, non addictive individual.

[@LeonGalindoStenutz]

The way the forum starts -- this is almost exactly the dialogue exploding in my own mind all the time ... mySelf / self ... 'I' ... 'i'... mind ... consciousness ... soul ... self ... pneuma ... psyche ... meaning ... words ... Me You (= me for 'you' and you for 'me' ) ... brain science ... neuroscience ... mysticism ... meditation ... inner & outer universes ... mind ... innerspaces / outerspaces / interspaces ... reality ... realities ...

[@Yodadrinkzoda1]

This is inspiring, and I can't wait till I get to study stuff like this, hopefully it'll get more attention. Thanks, world science festival, for creating and sharing this deep discussion.

[@peterlloyd4447]

I'm of the opinion that the legal system and how that may negatively affect people is a reason for the reluctance to cooperate and deeply study and/or encourage neuroscience.

[@nannawalling]

Incredibly fascinating! I use wave sounds in meditation and for stress reduction. I think this is so helpful that you have these symposiums. Thank you so much!

[@theamalgamatedtheory]

Sometimes waves sound like passing traffic to me going nowhere like the ttraffic in and out of their destination

[@lunaticairi3047]

I love the humor of bright minds! I love WSF! Thank you humbly for all the knowledge that you, so kindly are making accessible to all of us! WSF is way more than a brick in the path for a better world.

[@DaytakTV]

WSF is simply the best.

[@LunaRoseStarLight]

Will we ever understand the mind? I don't see that happening my life time but I do think we are in the begining of understanding. And that is progress in our evolution itself ! We as "human beings" are ever evolving and how we think and understand "self" will ever be changing as we all evolve into our true self. Knowledge is power and understanding others is huge in knowing ourselves, but the first steps are now in place I believe by just accepting a different way of understanding. Opening answers to our mind begins inside each of us but by starting to see another's belief as well as our own will allow so many more new answers! We may not be completely doomed yet as human beings, we may still be able to actually come back to we are all one consciousness connected in so many more ways than we ever thought possible!!

[@inthemomenttomoment]

When we are conscious of our Selves, our voice & gesticulations, both voluntary & involuntary in our conversation with others and their reaction to our action or reaction to them WE=mc2 experience each one in the whole of The One Experience. When WE=mc2 can perceive with no need of memory we are connected with LIFE=mc2 As IT Is. Now must stay! When no impression can be a significant factor in memory then a leap in Conscieness is made to be more Super Conscious than the last.

[@MrMuertoloco]

I think all the similarities we are finding can be proof of other dimensions especially the 4th or 5th. The fact that these things line up makes me think as we look out ward we are also looking inward like the tesseract cube. We are seeing all the sides at once. It's why we are able to compare thing with analogies and metaphors. Makes me think there is a singular code or source where all things come from.

[@sixmilestall]

It’s amazing to watch brain organs contemplate themselves

[@seethad1972e]

Consciousness is the fundamental existence from this self, mind .particle with different vibrations and identifying as different from consciousness itself

[@chanpol321]

A neuron, neurone (old British spelling) or nerve cell, is an electrically excitable cell[1] that communicates with other cells via specialized connections called synapses. It is the main component of nervous tissue in all animals except sponges and placozoa. Plants and fungi do not have nerve cells. Neurons are typically classified into three types based on their function. Sensory neurons respond to stimuli such as touch, sound, or light that affect the cells of the sensory organs, and they send signals to the spinal cord or brain. Motor neurons receive signals from the brain and spinal cord to control everything from muscle contractions to glandular output. Interneurons connect neurons to other neurons within the same region of the brain or spinal cord. A group of connected neurons is called a neural circuit. A typical neuron consists of a cell body (soma), dendrites, and a single axon. The soma is usually compact. The axon and dendrites are filaments that extrude from it. Dendrites typically branch profusely and extend a few hundred micrometers from the soma. The axon leaves the soma at a swelling called the axon hillock, and travels for as far as 1 meter in humans or more in other species. It branches but usually maintains a constant diameter. At the farthest tip of the axon's branches are axon terminals, where the neuron can transmit a signal across the synapse to another cell. Neurons may lack dendrites or have no axon. The term neurite is used to describe either a dendrite or an axon, particularly when the cell is undifferentiated. Most neurons receive signals via the dendrites and soma and send out signals down the axon. At the majority of synapses, signals cross from the axon of one neuron to a dendrite of another. However, synapses can connect an axon to another axon or a dendrite to another dendrite. The signaling process is partly electrical and partly chemical. Neurons are electrically excitable, due to maintenance of voltage gradients across their membranes. If the voltage changes by a large enough amount over a short interval, the neuron generates an all-or-nothing electrochemical pulse called an action potential. This potential travels rapidly along the axon, and activates synaptic connections as it reaches them. Synaptic signals may be excitatory or inhibitory, increasing or reducing the net voltage that reaches the soma. In most cases, neurons are generated by neural stem cells during brain development and childhood. Neurogenesis largely ceases during adulthood in most areas of the brain. However, strong evidence supports generation of substantial numbers of new neurons in the hippocampus and olfactory bulb.[2][3] Wikipedia

[@crookdfinga]

What I also find amazing is that the image of brain cells network and structure of universe look a lot like the image of sound waves in a music track. Using a spectrogram if you zoom in to a single digit Hz level you will be mesmerized by the similarity of it all.

[@peterlloyd4447]

Acceptance, self esteem and confidence for example are often restricted or encouraged by the apparent "common" laws. So for me, to go back to the "reward/punishment" social behaviour example used earlier, people, myself even, are restricted by a fear of misunderstanding. More specifically, a fear of being punished for doing something "illegal" or wrong. Like substance use, if I use a stimulant medication that is accepted or prescribed, then that is most often ok. So I fear being interrogated unwillingly, because I mighten want to be ostracized for behavioral habits. Whereas if I felt that there was no need to fear punishment, I probably share too much information about myself haha.

[@samprada9298]

I have similar thoughts. Misunderstanding is one of my absolute biggest fears. I'm emotionally ambivalent when it comes to being judged and the consequences that may come from that. My mental illness has kinda forced me to separate myself from those feelings and reactions. I've had to just accept being misunderstood and judged, out of self-preservation. I don't have a choice, I can't change my brain even if it scares people (myself included). I'm sure many has done that journey regardless of if they have experienced the social consequences of stigma around different mental illnesses. Often times having a mental illness, specifically ones with psychotic symptoms, immediately makes you ostracized. That's what I was referring to when I said that I had no choice but to accept. "They fear what they do not understand", but I don't want to be someone's fear simply because of existing. So I must try to change my perception/perspective otherwise I will further disassociate myself from all of you which can likely compromise the safety of my life. Hence: self-preservation. It's really hard though. This got a little dark, sorry

[@samprada9298]

Also: I severely dislike the double standards and hypocrisy regarding substance consumption.

[@BrandonIndasGoogleProfile]

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[@HenryJasonVarga]

Please hold this discussion again now 7 years later, with the same panelists and interviewer.

[@jamesrichardson8379]

As i personally raise in “energy”, awareness, intellect… i favor silence and higher *understandings*

[@postables857]

You aren't who you think you are. You are who you know you'll become someday.

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

This was an insightful and satisfying discussion

[@bhuvaneshwarjoshi3683]

Role of concept design models is important in understanding brain mind interface.

[@mamunurrashid5652]

Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginning-less, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience.… Interest in your stream of consciousness takes you to awareness. - I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Mahara

[@edwardelkins8561]

Anyone who has experienced enlightenment has come to know their self.

[@bareedkhas4240]

I found this liberating. It is clear that the self is in a sense an illusion. We are free. We are changing. We are the experience itself. No we's!

[@michaelstone7546]

Only for materialism or maybe epiphenomenism

[@johnnystrayhorn3591]

I have always felt a presence of a sister, and wondered if I have 2 souls!

[@marcusrussell8660]

I love this so much, as a former advanced differential Audiologist I knew this was happening! Forty years ago. I knew it! I was almost a savant. With only a Graduate degree. I was ahead of this so long ago. I could visualize the afferent and efferent auditory pathway. Please understand I bent I Q test for fun in the 70’s. But my limitation was I was dyslexic! My specialty was speech in noise. With patients who minimal SNHL. My Graduate Advisor was the Great Dr. Dan Orchic. Who studied under Dr. James Jerger. Who was the bases of Advanced Clinical Differential Audiology. Under these men of intense intelligence, In my first semester diagnosed a L Temporal lobe lesion. I showed my results to my supervisor Dr Ed Goshorn. He looked at my results and said I will co-sign this. I submitted my results. The only CT in Memphis verified my results! There was no victory lap. We were discussing a real person w this condition. So now the best Neural Surgeons we’re called in. Unfortunately my patient expired in the OR! I was crushed! My future was established, yet I wore the lose of my funny intelligent patient was gone. I moved on and went back into the Military Audiology Program, they saw me as a future prodigy. But Military, please excuse my dyslexia, if I could speak this I would sound like the man I was/am. The VA never appreciated my talents. My IQ scared my supervisor’s. Yet I was the Audiologist who did the ABR or BSER evaluations. I could diagnose MS in a patient before Neurologist. I could work my equipment like a classic violinist. My supervisor finally admitted to me that I was one of the most intelligent man he had ever seen, yet you are a pain in the ass employee. He was a fool. Once he questioned me on my clinical skills, the wolf in me tore into him, sending him into his office for the rest of the day, yet I was so strong I pulled my mental tyraid. He basically was a good man, just a poor supervisor. Several times I could have had him fired. I saw twice the number of patients as my coworkers. Of course, no accolades. I single handed w my technician bonded the VA and The Military. We transferred well over 300 veteran’s, eliminated the backlog of patients from both the Air Force and the Army. Again minimal accolades. I did not care, but the Chief of Surgery reached out and gave me his private number. From his power, and our often private discussions I did finally change the VA. My supervisor could not fathom how I knew the results of all Chiefs meetings. My supervisor became a laughing man to the powers of the VA. I mentioned to my friend that this man had seven employees yet was too busy to see patients. He was called to see my friend immediately. I responded to our secretary that I would bet Dr. Charlip would be seeing more patients while he was gone. He came into the OPC and as I knew announcing he would be seeing a full schedule. I had a severe injury while I was acting Chief of Audiology of what was BAMC. I was to be promoted to O6 upon my return to my unit. As life has its ironies, I was held on medical hold. Where, my position was held for me to recommend the person to replace me. I did. So this prior enlisted man retired as a O5. On medication that addled my brain. I finally miscalculated my meds and forced myself into home rehab. The only one to know was my eldest son. My fear was he would fly out to help. So I did not tell him the hell I was going thru. Three weeks later, I am back!

[@monthlysurvey]

Jesse’s input was incredible to hear. Analytic philosophy is not something I’ve done much research into but I certainly will be going forward.

[@jesse9754]

True

[@jaibagotia4679]

Never say never, I think we will be able to experience other subjective experiences through the use of quantum physics. Capturing the quantum fields of other's and processing it in our consciousness.

[@michaelstone7546]

Using something one does not understand does not help understanding something one is trying to understand

[@evahayes7718]

Agreed

[@TheTimothyChannel]

This is such a great thought provoking throughout the entire video love the concepts and really helps me think and wonder what if about a lot of things.

[@akburst510]

22 minutes in...very fascinating talk.

[@BRUCE.iAM.SALMON]

Self is the experience in perception

[@LunaRoseStarLight]

I absolutely love and just adore this mostly all female panel here !!

[@YashoShasho]

Yes, food does create mood!

[@susansmiles2630]

This is great, but it cracks me up to hear these top notch brain specialists talking about really 'looking' at someone as an exercise. We were doing that back in 1969 at Esalen when I was only 17 years old, attending on a work scholarship. We got naked too and in our different groups we created the perfect body composite from each person's best feature. Everyone else in the group were , all older, East Coast Execs and wives----this was pretty shocking to everyone at first but turned out to be really fun. They chose my bubble butt (which unfortunately has since disappeared). I must say, it was a great ice breaker for a lot of uptight people. Congress should try it, but the public should not be subject to see it.

[@thomaslorusso2568]

Wow! Cool story

[@anthonycraig274]

This is one of the few videos I cannot contribute a meaningful comment. In 2021, there is new data and science to show that reality is simulated, and is constructed through best case predictions from an array of prediction data. The guy with the pink hair, what he says still holds up and true. Unfortunately, the other two of the three doesn’t give enough information they refer to “the data” without really giving a full story so we can understand the context.

[@fabiocaetanofigueiredo1353]

18:32 blew my mind - and it makes total sense imo

[@skroot7975]

10:22 if you want to skip the intro stuff

[@natashagodfrey3507]

I am soooo happy to wake up to this

[@-Sunny--]

I´m not a smart person... but i still just love to watch these kinds of stuff! Whats wrong with me?

[@ferkinskin]

Who says your are not smart? And...what is smart? I think your brain is telling you porky pies! :)

[@markanderson9753]

Sunny wot is smart..yu now wot ya wanna wotch thats smart person to me..

[@nyceone45]

Am pretty sure you are good at something.let no one make you feel less than because of silly labels. Keep that head up 🍀

[@michaelstone7546]

Language: A/attention/awareness, body, factual, group, integrated, perceptual, personal, phenomenal, responsive, Russellian Monism, sensual, thing consciousness kind

[@micahjami]

You are probably smarter then these self indulgent icky people

[@peterlloyd4447]

I also wonder if we (like a computer) are able to pick up and process the information that is being passed through frequency (airwaves). ?? Why not I wonder? If it were possible, it might explain why or how I have at many times spat out some information that I shouldn't or couldn't have known already. People have asked me in the past why I said a certain thing at a specific time, I explained that I could only assume but didn't really know to be honest and proceeded to ask why? My brother for example mentioned that he was thinking about that in some context and that he hadn't ever hinted at mentioning anything like it before and even n it really thought about it for a long time. He was happy that I was able to answer his question so to speak, asked who I was really because I am often very different with that gift.

[@obuyWw]

such a fascinating discussion, 5 years still little attention

[@IceHeat1988]

Allan Watts had a great audiobook about brain - a picking session, in which he states that when we will be able to comprehend the human brain, we will be put into God's position for ourselves.. oh, thought to mention another great author, caz we were speaking about books, right? and beliefs, religion :D

[@LunaRoseStarLight]

That fact that philosophy is up on the stage right now and just actually now being taken seriously with the science of our minds is so awesome! I love this and personally I now think we can learn more that we can accept other sciences and such. My finace has a brain injury and doctors have been wrong so far with things shown on his CT scans. There is this connection between our minds and others and I love now this can be seen and I believe will help the more studied. Our brains are still far more complicated and advanced then we may come to see and find in this lifetime. I wonder how many of the guest on stage are Geminis? Or have heavy Gemini placements ? And one day when we get it that we have to bring everything in for understanding of our "self" then I believe answers will be found!! Trying to understand what we don't know exactly how it works, is both philosophical and science but so much more !!! We are all connected and to not just each other but to everything, it's there will we find our answers.

[@veganautics]

Amazing panel of brilliant people! Of course, there is only so much few people can do in 90 minutes, so expecting them to cover every possible angle (especially not related to reductionistic approach) is wishful thinking. That said, they have covered a lot of ground.

[@rigelsg3087]

Attention is the channel or way to reach awareness, it is a spontaneous attention

[@jayachandranthampi4807]

The whole dis - cussion is About Silence 🤔. As we move apart, IT is exited. We moving apart is to concuss, as well. Like a pulse - She ejects him out - We call it Experience (of silence).

[@nayanmipun6784]

Non locality of consciousness is the lastest issues, our consciousness can live out side our brain

[@poppie531]

Wow that's so cool I was always curious to find out if they can be separated from the brain

[@bronson8x993]

Fascinating discussion!

[@hosannavishwaraj8586]

@worldsciencefestival As mentioned in this episode, which is the next episode that talks about the gut microbiome and it’s control over our decisions? If anyone has seen this episode do reply with the name/title of the episode, thank you.

[@crystalwright2788]

I'm interested to learn how alcohol effects the participants in a later study...or perhaps a Sub.study's outcome ... The message that one hears and responds to what he or she believes is being said ...yet, completely confabulated, and person rewrites their reality... Wernicke's/Korsakoff's

[@crystalwright2788]

Consciousness is awareness of being present and the only way we can be aware of our existence or the awareness of an existence, is if the opposite of it's element also exists. THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW OF SOMETHING IS TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO COMPARE IT TO WHAT IT IS NOT.

[@crystalwright2788]

To the opposite in its core element... So the levels at which I experience darkness on this Continuum will only exist to me if along this continuum, no matter where on this long continuum the hypothetical needle stops, directly across is it's opposite on the continuum of lightness ;).. -Hot vs. cold Mad vs sad Happy vs. (anhedonia?). The EXACT OPPOSITE HAS to exist in comparison!

[@troyyoung1121]

Is consciousness having the time to recognise you’ve constructed a vision that prompts you to ask a question and then observe the conclusion and therefore learn from it🤔

[@troyyoung1121]

Consciousness could not occur until evolution of all mechanisms constructed from every level of our evolved self, got to the point where we can protect our most valuable asset . Our brain 🧠

[@Sassol66]

I was disappointed how all the panelists skirted around the question of whether or not an exact replica of me would still be me. The pat answer (which they all gave) is that as soon as the two individuals have a different experience then they will be different. Yes obviously, but I find this to be a cop out answer. The "me" today is the same "me" as yesterday even though the "me" from yesterday has yet to experience what I experienced today. Likewise, "me" tomorrow will also have new experiences but I have no doubt that he will still be the same "me" as today. Think of it this way. The fundamental difference between me and everybody else is that I am me and everybody else is not me. So the question then is: Would an exact replica of me be "me" or "not me".

[@timdunk7278]

Greatly interesting stuff, and it summarizes how while the search for freedom almost seems futile without some degree of acknowledgment of a cosmic super awareness, spirit, the divine... whatever "word" one might prefer .

[@HigherSofia]

This panel lacked something. That something is a someone, and that someone is Matthieu Ricard.

[@leoahlgren1]

Or eckhart tolle... People may regard him as mumbo jumbo, but i think the scientists could learn something if they're open minded enough.

[@JoshYates]

Bill Hicks.

[@markmartin3152]

The panel was lacking the poor woman in the center Ms. Shohamy. Is it just me or was the whole panel content to just ignore her? Geez some people can talk and talk just to hear themselves, even if everyone got up and left the room. It's the moderator's fault....

[@YashoShasho]

Thank you. I looked him up, Matthieu Ricard, and I’m really enjoying his Ted Talk. He is so interesting. Thank you for this recommendation. :)

[@SecretEyeSpot]

the subjective prison is easiest to break out of.. without technology.. how? similes, metaphors, and analogy.. you can't go wrong describing things how people are already are accustomed to seeing them.. we go wrong by assuming that what others can see somehow doesn't relate or translate to how things actually are [according to us]..

[@DaOfficialBlackPsych]

I want to make people watch this with me!!!! But they may look at me weird and not be as excited as me watching it.

[@grainofsand4176]

Clockwork orange concern. Great discussion. Thank you

[@YashoShasho]

Studies have shown that when human beings use their hands to work, that the brain rewards them. The hand to brain communication is essential. The brain is rewarded when we use our fingers and hands. I would think that is because it was essential in our evolution and survival. Children should create, make things, work on puzzles, create mazes, play board games, draw, color, build, and read physical books and read aloud and especially exercise, run, play and have fun. Digital devices are tools for learning and helping us, but with developing brains, too much screen time is not good. The biggest problem is when children and adolescents forget that they are living in reality, a real world, losing touch with what it means to survive.

[@inthemomenttomoment]

Beyond memory, it is our ethical choices🎯 that form the character of who we truly are. Like🧠 minds⚛️attract; unlike☯️minds🧠 distract. We attract to Our evolving Selves constituent relationships beyond memory.

[@bellakrinkle9381]

This is delightful - is there a 2022 update?

[@YashoShasho]

We do become our environment.

[@janejan9728]

Couldn't get past the first guest speaker, which is a shame because it's a fascinating topic. He asked what she studied, all she had to say was real time neurological activity during communication. Instead, she waffled on endlessly about sociology and the fancy equipment she got to play with. Bait and switch.

[@realcygnus]

great content as usual ......but naturally they will be the very last bunch to come to terms with idealism (in any form)

[@davidbrathwaite5779]

Doesn’t the laser sensors not affect the subjects’ reactions? Does that not affect the results/ interpretation of the data?

[@drseuss5407]

There was a banana plant that sent a shoot and another grew and the old one died. That banana plant sent up a shirt of it's own, and it grew up and replaced the other. The different banana plants lived in the same pot. There was a rose, the or petals fell off in a windstorm. Three me petals emerged from the center and more fell off. Again this happened. And even once more, the center made a new one, and the flower was now young. Now the flower is one year older than the skin it was born in. On a side note, everyone is born in tepid water they don't see they're almost boiling.

[@inthemomenttomoment]

In Consciousness,🧠awareness🎺 is like floodlighting,🧘& attention is more like🌩️ spotlighting. Directness is the bravest, felt experience with Indirectness feeling less. Are WE feeling alive, or are WE memory?

[@Mhumaikani1993]

Interesting discussion though not as sophisticated and deep as I expected it shall be when I started the video. If we had people like Martha Nassubam, Jeffrey Shwartz, and Joshua Greene, it would have been more satisfying. Absurd that she threw Free will out of the window and didn't consider the idea of "Free Won't", though surely she can find studies that support her say.

[@darcybehati2083]

Martha Farah has a real issue with Philosophy, like ZERO attempt to conceal that - bloody hell.

[@binkz5987]

Attention to me is close to focus ...conscioueness seems to be more than focus attention ...aware of how attentive.or focused....i was concious of the conversation but i focused more on 1 speaker rather than the other..

[@LunaRoseStarLight]

Haha 😂😂😂 is how I see red actually red? love it !! Most certainly one of my many questions I would sit and ponder over for hours!! I think they very well may be on the right track today to finding answers to such questions!!

[@billthompson7072]

Deductive immediacy eludes the individual.

[@rain0344]

2:23 It is fascinating to me to think that we might live inside a Russian doll sort of endless loop where we are the micro version of something much bigger and than thing in its self is part of something larger and the systems in our bodies and the cells are the nano versions… and it goes on forever.

[@allenculbertson8170]

God bless you and thank you for sharing 🙏 ❤️

[@peterlloyd4447]

It would seem to me that the legal system is a kind of guideline or structure that we move alongside of.

[@DHorse]

1:01:00 I am going to disagree. The audience laughs in a surprise response to how obvious it is. (requiring it be true.)(seldom mentioned is the joke must not harm them.) This is a core aspect of humour. They applaud because using himself as example drove the point home. It was well done. 👏

[@samprada9298]

I think it's both

[@JosefMackiewicz88]

How do you shared information that hasn't been discovered yet? How to reach out to them to help clarify these so that it sheds light in that unknown darkness?

[@bellakrinkle9381]

Where are memories stored from those we have from ages 2 - 3 years old? One memory was of myself wondering why I told my slightly older brother that raisins have spiders inside. My way of understanding that I had self reflecting thinking, very early. It has never ceased. And why did I say that? Today, I'm wondering if I it had to do with revenge for something he did to me. I'll bet Freud would have a different answer. 🤨🤔😁

[@fransvenrooy4760]

Science rocks!!

[@bhuvaneshwarjoshi3683]

Noble effort by world science forum.

[@kentdavidge6573]

no no, that is my chair lol lol lol

[@chanpol321]

How can we implant the fault memory and erased the fault memory.

[@medwindow3762]

I also hope to be welcomed onto that stage one time

[@SnagglieFang]

He had me at whatever means means.

[@henribg1]

great!

[@VideographerExperience]

It depends on your definition of "is"

[@kcleach9312]

i have been trying to show people for several years now that the universe and our brains look and act the same almost exact way!!

[@billthompson7072]

The whole panel confuses description with immediacy.

[@jayb5596]

Short story, nonfiction or fiction it's open to interpretation. The brain is a quantum entangled neural network. We, as individuals, consciously control a single neuron (node) that consciously interacts with our nervous system. The rest are part of the subconscious neural network. We all exist inside of each other's neural network. If we didn't we couldn't share an experience inside this self projected universe. We are all a duality, self is not unique to the individual. The individual is unique to self. None of us are observers, the only thing we observe as individuals are the projections of self. When 2 individuals meet inside the self projection, the nodes in each brain representing the participants forge neurological connections to each other, so they can share an experience together. Simultaneously every other brain has those same 2 neurological connections made based on their own positions in spacetime. Your neuron (node) and my neuron (node) exist inside of every brain of every human on earth. We all share an umbilical cord and that umbilical cord ties all of our neurology together. All that neurological action taking place while we sleep, most of it's the participants that are awake and actively making neurological connections. Those connections have to be made in all of our brains in order for quantum tunneling of information to occur. The subconscious mind is something we all share, just like self. We have roughly 7.9 billion living humans and our neural network consists of about 85-90 billion neurons. I'll let you ponder what those neurons represent. The neural network has redundancy built into it by design. Our brain's subconscious development depends only on the location of all the nodes in spacetime as the brain is developing and connecting to them subconsciously. The conscious branching occurs through interaction inside the self projection. Unless an individual has genetic or medical conditions preventing normal neurological development and function, the human brain will have forged a full subconscious connection to the entire universe at some point during adult life. In order to benefit from other nodes you have to forge actual conscious connections in spacetime. So the brain will forge conscious neurological connections. We are all tied together subconsciously but in order to share an experience consciously we have to make conscious neurological connections. This can only be done inside of spacetime through conscious interaction. Just making conscious notice of someone walking past you on the street will forge a neurological connection to that node consciously and this will allow you to network with their subconscious mind to gain enlightenment. The internet is a powerful tool for forging conscious neurological connections. Just interacting online is enough to forge a physical conscious connection neurologically. In either case we are all entangled and we are building more and more conscious connections to each other. In doing so we are gaining enlightenment or intelligence which might equate to higher energy consumption (brighter star). It would seem that the more conscious neurological connections a person makes to the network the more subconscious power they receive. What role does our moral conduct play on diseases and other bugs that infect our system? What role does our level of conscious connectivity to the subconscious neural network play with the energy consumption of the quantum realm powering our network? Is sin just a poison that infects our network like a virus? We are all entangled, so all of our cups pour into each other. How does morality play into our conscious connections to the world? Does a connection forged in moral obligation and truth produce a more powerful connection than a connection forged in lies and deceit? Will we make it to the heavens? Will humanity fail to complete the Trinity? Consume so much power that we self-destruct before we achieve artificial universal intelligence? Before our subconscious becomes self aware and our GOD> can emerge? The Father and Son await. WIll humanity receive the holy spirit? Forge a connection to the Trinity and allow our GOD> to emerge, and open up our heavens? Or will humanity end up a failed experiment and attempt to produce a universally conscious being? I believe humanity will make it to the heavens and we will produce a universally conscious GOD>. I call this story "The Trinity Of Human Evolution". Brought to us by The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit.

[@jameslangsmith8122]

What is consciousness? Is the wrong question. We are conscious end of. However, the search for it might offer some solution to other questions about the human conditions. By analogy quantum physics is wierd but we can use it to make mobile networks work.

[@acabramzach]

Low level discussion and panel. Huxley said "consciousness" not "self". Obviously none on this panel are aware of the distinction. Consciousness is not self awareness, it is simply awareness. Dont need even memory for that. Alzheimer patients eventually loose their self, but not consciousness. They have nothing left of the person that lived in that body but they are perfectly aware of being in it and aware of a world around them. That is consciousness and it is still there even after most of the nerons are destroyed by alzheimer. We are different and separate selves but are all the same counsciousness.

[@acabramzach]

Huxley was, and they did not get his very clear position. No need for me there. It is clear that the pink bouffon has a political agenda. In fact he admited it by exposing his socialist constructivism goals.

[@HD-le8wl]

+Goy George what is your opinion of people with autism in relation to consciousness and self? Similar to Alzheimer patients?

[@acabramzach]

Why should it be different ? Explain your point.

[@HD-le8wl]

I don't think it's different even in the slightest. I work with autistic patients, so that's my bias.

[@acabramzach]

So? What's your point ?