Quantum Biology: Irreducible Mind (Part 4)

[@Ben-lp9sv]

I should watch this whole video indeed ! God bless you Mike.

[@goertzpsychiatry9340]

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[@salemsalem3968]

Mind Blown🤯. Consciousness still intact though

[@creatorsofreality246]

The only and one of the kind IP. Watching from Ethiopia 🇪🇹

[@Jerico19]

I was about to lose my faith in Jesus until I found your videos due to finding research that Jesus was the literal sun. But now I know the truth, thank you. Don’t stop making videos, it really helps people! God bless! SUBSCRIBED

[@wavestation999]

Lmao, Jesus is the literal sun? Where did that notion come from?

[@tshimologokgosi7340]

@@wavestation999 why you Like kicking people in the balls?

[@wavestation999]

@@tshimologokgosi7340 cuz it makes me feel powerful 😈

[@tshimologokgosi7340]

@@wavestation999 😦😦😦

[@stevemattero1471]

I hope you mean "Son"

[@Eraktab]

Brest series of scientific philosophy I've ever seen. Love this part and hope there's more

[@kennydawson5098]

Great Video, as always. This series is truly fascinating.

[@LoveYourNeighbour.]

AND animated in an exciting & beautiful manner!

[@akimoetam1282]

“Man, my day is really busy, I’m going have no free tim- *me seeing that IP has a new video ...yeah I’ve got time.”

[@brothapipp]

Totally same situation right now. had like 15 min to get out the door and was like...eh, 6 extra minutes wont hurt. And now I;m commenting.... SHHHHH!!!! Quit talking to me i gotta go! :P

[@brothapipp]

lion fish touché

[@ianb483]

Good stuff. IP, are you familiar with hylomorphic dualism, the view held by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas? I think that quantum physics strongly supports it, even apart from educated guesses regarding the specifics of how our minds and brains may work together through quantum or quantum-like effects. Contra both materialist reductionism and Cartesian dualism, hylomorphic dualism holds that nature contains substances. A substance is a whole that is greater than the mere aggregate of its parts, and that has powers and properties that are not reducible to the aggregate powers of its parts. In both materialism and Cartesian dualism all physical things are comprised of elementary particles that behave in a mechanistic manner, and everything that wholes do is determined by the aggregate mechanistic behavior of their parts. In hylomorphic dualism, by contrast, wholes can be just as fundamental as their parts, and their parts can have irreducible powers that they would not have when isolated from the wholes of which they are a part. Now, many complex wholes are clearly not substances. For instance, the computers that we build are mere material aggregates of their parts. It's precisely because of this that they are useful to us. It is by understanding the mechanistic behaviors of a computer's constituents that engineers are able to combine those behaviors in such a way as to make computers that do what we want them to do. If it were not so, then computers would not behave how we want. On the other hand, other things clearly are substances, such as conscious living creatures. If living things were mere aggregates of parts behaving in mechanistic fashion, then subjective conscious experience would be entirely superfluous to their behavior, which would mean that we could have no reason to suppose that they were conscious. But clearly some living things (namely us) do have conscious subjective experience, and clearly it affects our behavior (such as when we discuss it as I am doing now), so clearly conscious living things have causal powers that are not reducible aggregate mechanistic behavior of their parts in the way that computers are. Anyhow, I think that even the most elementary facts about quantum physics demonstrate that the concept of irreducible substances holds true not just for conscious living things, but is rather ubiquitous all across nature. For instance, in the double-slit experiment, elementary particles produce an interference pattern *even if they are fired one at a time*. In other words, when fired through double slits, an individual photon wave produces two waves that interfere with each other and affect the probability of where the photon will land when it hits the photographic paper. The fact that a photon is interfering with itself in a double-wave pattern before being measured implies that it isn't just a matter of us not *knowing* where the photon is before measuring it. Rather, the photon *doesn't actually have* what we think of as basic properties of a particle, such as location, while it is "on its own." Only when the photon is incorporated into the substantial form of a "macro" whole by hitting the photographic paper does it gain the properties of a particle. While on its own, a photon has only a *potential* range of positions rather than an actual position. This also ties together nicely with the Aristotelian/Thomistic idea of potentiality versus actuality, and its idea that "prime matter" (which is to say matter as abstracted apart from any substantial form) is pure potentiality with no actuality. Of course, prime matter is only an abstraction that can't actually exist (since matter always has some form or other), but it's interesting that as we study the behavior of ever smaller and more "fundamental" particles isolated from larger wholes, the more we find that they have only potential or "probabilistic" properties rather than definite and actual ones. This also ties into the logical and empirical difficulty of trying to tie human consciousness and human rationality (the ability to grasp immaterial abstract universals) to any single part of the brain. No part of the brain mechanistically *produces* consciousness and rationality. Instead, it's the whole brain, or rather the *whole human being*, that *is* conscious and rational by virtue of its substantial form. It's an irreducible power of the human being, not something that is "generated" or "produced" by lower-level mechanistic processes. I think some of your educated speculations in your Near Death Experiences video about how memory and personality may persist after death through quantum entanglements or something analogous also tie in nicely with this. It's long been argued by Thomists that the rational human intellect is provably immaterial and therefore survives the death of the material body in an incomplete form, despite human beings being essentially embodied creatures. And that in turn fits like a glove with the Christian teaching that the final resurrection is a bodily resurrection, not an eternal existence as disembodied Platonic souls. The idea that the brain is built to facilitate the building of memories and personality that survive the brain's death through quantum effects fits very well with this. It would mean that our memories and personalities, along with our rational intellects, are essentially "tied to" our brains and bodies, and yet can persist without them. Which again fits like a glove with the Christian teaching that the final resurrection is the eternal resurrection of our physical bodies, but in a glorified and imperishable form that will be as immortal as the souls that inform them.

[@monarchblue4280]

Me after watching all of the videos in this series in order before watching this video and after I finished this video: *Oh yeah. Its ALL coming together* Love the Quantum Biology stuff IP. Liked and saved.

[@monarchblue4280]

@L Lawliet Its you! My favourite Ice Cream classicalist. I agree btw. Vanilla is pretty good.

[@SteichenFamily]

Where are the other videos? (parts 1 - 3) I can't find links in the description.

[@isakhedeen]

@@SteichenFamily Look in his playlists

[@tdsuddreth]

I love that sneaky subliminal message. "I should watch this video all the way through." 🤣

[@justsomeguywhoisntdead1158]

Wait, where was it?

[@johnrockwell5834]

The body is the Organic Mecha for the Spirit.

[@Seanph25]

Pretty much

[@femmedracula6857]

I really appreciate this installment and the contextualization of current quantum consciousness research. I saw the video from Sci-Show Psych the other day about using quantum theory to predict/understand consciousness without it literally being a quantum process and something was missing from that explanation - the "having your cake and eating it too," as you said. Deterministic/classical physics explanations of consciousness have long been unsatisfactory to me, especially to the extreme of simply writing off consciousness and qualia as illusions. I don't claim to have any answers, but exploring possible explanations has been quite informative.

[@LoveYourNeighbour.]

Great comment! I'm quite annoyed by the shallow assertion that consciousness is just an illusion! If that were true, then I guess the assertion "consciousness is just an illusion" must ITSELF be an illusion as well LOL.

[@femmedracula6857]

@@LoveYourNeighbour. If consciousness is an illusion who exactly is being deceived? In order to perceive an illusion, there must be someone there to perceive it. In the comments on the last video someone accused me of disliking this explanation because it was secular. And no, I favor secular explanations. It's because it's unsatisfying and instead of explaining anything, it just explains it away.

[@DanielApologetics]

Awesome video! Now, sit back and wait for an objection that you've answered already earlier in this series..!

[@matteuslucas4223]

@L Lawliet are you serious?

[@matteuslucas4223]

@L Lawliet That's probably why Jesus prayed to God the father then. Him being an atheist and all.

[@matteuslucas4223]

@L Lawliet lol what nonsense. Read John 20:17 if you really need scripture to refute that. Seriously, that's so silly I haven't got words for it.

[@matteuslucas4223]

@L Lawliet I'm still amazed that some people would think that crying out to God makes one an atheist. There is a word for it but yt would probably flag my comment if I were to use it.

[@pipboy4978]

@L Lawliet the ignorance of atheists and their inability to understand just basic biblical teachings never ceases to astonish me

[@flapjackpanda]

atheists are always calling me childish and ignorant so i come here to educate myself lol, thanks this is awesome.

[@flapjackpanda]

@Al Garnier well i suppose you would assume that out of prejudice but im still quite young so that could be the reason, with experience and time it'll change dont worry.

[@flapjackpanda]

@Al Garnier since many atheists unconsciously feel superior to more religious or spiritual people believing its irrational and ignorant to believe in a God but those are more or less new age anti-theists, true atheists admit they lack the belief they dont outright say there is no God.

[@flapjackpanda]

@Al Garnier well are you not assuming that i dont know what atheists admit? ive seen debates ive watched videos many of them use the very definition of atheism a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods, and you're attacking me calling me ignorant and yet i havent called any atheists the same or bashed them, i focus on their arguments and im not trying to convince you of there being a God and yet you are trying to convince me there is no God, sorry but im not convinced and im christian not muslim and if i were deluding myself i would be too afraid to watch videos from IP or any other person that does videos on science and religion but no i want to know more of both sides its that simple.

[@flapjackpanda]

@Al Garnier and yet you keep trying to convince me, honestly i cannot convince you and you cannot convince me, it is not ignorant or irrational to believe in a God claiming that faith is a lack of evidence when you are thinking of the english term for faith and not the greek term, and God can be experienced and felt personally and just btw i used to be agnostic i wasnt even raised christian i chose this path the same way you chose to be atheist now this is just gonna become a circular argument so if you wish to be more educated around historical evidence of God then keep watching InspiringPhilosophy and maybe try watching William Lane Craig, they can provide some more insight

[@flapjackpanda]

@Al Garnier i cant be convinced of my ignorance if im seeking knowledge, but i would say you are more ignorant since you already assume you know me, know my life and know why i believe what i believe, it isnt ignorant coz i have experienced and seen things in which i place my faith aka pistis, in fact i sometimes think science and the bible are quite complimentary and i dont believe in Santa coz he isnt real so that says something about my ability to seek truth you might say im ignorant, childish and deluded with PTSD but i can assure you the brain activity of a person who believes in God is in fact quite normal you can check IP's channel for the proof but why does it bother you so much what i believe? am i somehow bothering you? or are you just perhaps a bigot.

[@owencampbell4947]

We're getting closer, the more hints are given the more it activates sleeping parts of the brain. Nothing emerges out of nothing, there is and was something there. It depends on your brain and your senses to observe and fine tune the tools required for such discoveries.

[@paulforester6996]

This would explain my weird dreams. Lol

[@JH-dp9zk]

*sees new IP video* my hand: the fastest draw in the west

[@assortednonsense1]

^ *quantum wave function collapses instantaneously

[@mcawesomeytyo3312]

Amen brother. Wave Function collapse does not create consciousness. It only creates the brain. You just solved the hard problem of consciousness by inverting it (How does consciousness create the brain) and explaining it through quantum biology.

[@oscarklauss9802]

I'm tired of lame brain physicalist insults like quantum woo. Exhausting all classical accounts to consciousness, one has to look elsewhere for the answer.

[@Pietrosavr]

They are not just exhausted, but impossible on a philosophical level; physical properties cannot rearrange into qualia, end of story.

[@Pietrosavr]

@fynes leigh Humans? Yours?

[@Pietrosavr]

@fynes leigh Impressive, you are not familiar with the word human. Well let me explain it to you, in the English language the word human refers to the most intelligent species on this planet. If you carry on learning vocabulary, one day you might just become smart enough to be considered as one :) good luck!

[@Synistercrayon]

Agreed. It only takes a shallow scientist to apply the arrogant term quantum.

[@mcawesomeytyo3312]

one must look within. Literally.

[@scripturallyspeaking7110]

I am an ABSOLUTE fan!! I love your work!! Your explanations are always so very clear and concise!!

[@danharte6645]

That was an amazingly detailed and technical presentation and I'll need to listen to this a few more times just to fully understand it all. Great work IP

[@LoveYourNeighbour.]

I've now listened to it THREE TIMES, and still intend to listen to it AGAIN, later on!

[@adaptercrash]

You shouldn't have to, and it's the same thing as 82.

[@duongkstn]

Great video. Clear explanation . love your music theme❤

[@crabking6884]

I thought this was a very good video. I really appreciate how much research you put into all your videos. I consider myself an idealist, but more aligning with the Buddhist view instead of the western view(I'm not a Buddhist, but I do think that a number of the teachings it gives are a good way for ending suffering). Would you say that the soul is capable of changing or not and why? I have watched the other videos in this series, but I watched each individual video on a really spaced out schedule so I apologize if don't recall you already discussing this.

[@Rickta90]

Wow! Great work as always. Really remarkable this here!

[@dannewman8809]

im a student just started a level psychology this obviously isnt in the course but damm does it change things

[@abhishekshah11]

This video explains orch-OR better than Stuart Hameroff himself. Great work IP.

[@LoveYourNeighbour.]

LOL!

[@isaiahsamuels9827]

my quantum computer hurts watching these videos.

[@tedgreen8576]

I feel like if science just started with God, and the subsequent implication of a parallel world of Mind (s), then this conclusion would have and should have happened much sooner. Seems like we wasted a lot of time and resources assuming or wanted to assume (worldview) that physical brain produces the mind; in which instinctively, most of us know, from instinct, this was never true to begin with.

[@bobbymiller7242]

"I should watch this video all the way through" got an instant like from me lol

[@bretnetherton9273]

Awareness is known by awareness alone.

[@rocketman2628]

It would be nice if your Digital Physics and Idealism videos get published in scientific academia like Nature and not just stay on KZbin.

[@LogosTheos]

That stuff already exists in the literature. The problem is what you philosophically infer from the conclusions: philpapers.org/rec/KASMSO

[@rocketman2628]

@@LogosTheos Dang. It would be cool seeing Mike Jones debate someone like Sean Carroll on this.

[@LogosTheos]

@@rocketman2628 Sean Carroll would dispute the conclusions most likely since a lot of IP's arguments are also based on Carroll's science.

[@rocketman2628]

@@LogosTheos If Carroll disputes reasonable conclusions derived from his own science then he is shooting himself in the foot. If they are reasonable conclusions, that is.

[@LogosTheos]

@Jon Read the whole paper. I don't why you stopped at the abstract and started to complain.

[@eswn1816]

Our brain did not 'evolve' from random events. There is no evidence of gradual improvement that lead up to human self-awareness. Our complex human brain was designed.

[@kendallkahl8725]

Years ago when they wanted to make quantum computer chips they looked at how neurons do it and they are still exploring how. Basically in Newtonian physics a charge can only go one way down a wire. Neurons send electric signals both ways down the same neural dendrite. To do that quantum super state has to be happening. Even if it chemical the signal goes both ways. That began them down the path and quantum computer chips came about because of what they learned.

[@goertzpsychiatry9340]

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[@alephgates7519]

Do you have any sources or YT videos that expand on this idea?

[@jonbrittain78]

I dunno, comparing the collapsing of the wave function to focusing on one of a handful of thoughts floating around in the mind seems a bit of a stretch.

[@n4rzul]

You mean as opposed to believing a god becoming a man to sacrifice himself to himself, to save us from himself?

[@jonbrittain78]

@@n4rzul no, when I think of an idea being a huge stretch, I think if the idea of the universe, including life, consciousness, logic, beauty and morality all being a chance byproduct of unguided processes.

[@pipboy4978]

@@n4rzul He’s not saving us from himself he’s saving us from the sin and destruction of the world. Gods sacrifice was to give humanity a choice to follow god or to follow our sinful nature. Without that choice we would never be able to truly love him

[@n4rzul]

@@pipboy4978 Choice? Lol. Love me or else? Haha. Sounds like a very insecure god if you ask me.

[@FireurchinProductionsByzantium]

@@n4rzul being a materialist, you should be familiar with the idea that you don't get to negotiate with the absolute laws of the universe. The concept of the essence-energies distinction and the hesychastic practice is too long and nuanced for a single youtube comment, so it's recommended that you look it up in your spare time. Nevertheless, I will simplify the main axioms of the doctrine. 1) the rebellion of Adam embued free will into human nature, but also caused our nature to become fallen 2) evil exists as a lack of good rather than as the presence of a substance. 3) a soul subject to the operations of the absolute good (God in this case) can either derive comfort or pain relational to the state of the soul, thus it is necessary to transfigure the will to align with the operations of God. 4) by scripture and tradition, we can conclude that God was incarnate and became man so that man could become like God Therefore, by applying axioms 2 and 3, we can conclude that the punishment of hell is a byproduct of the thesis of God's goodness needing an antithesis, and therefore, not a punishment that God willingly dispenses, but rather a cruel reality of a logical universe. By axioms 1 and 4, we conclude that the sacrifice was indeed necessary and not the product of an arbitrary god, but rather the clever solution of an all-powerful and all-merciful God. And by axioms 3 and 4, we can dispell any slanderous accusations of God's cruelty

[@edcorps2876]

Reality is so much like science fiction, our bodies, might just literally be machines that our mind utilizes and interfaces with through quantum processes. So much cooler than we're just matter and so much truer to what we know about ourselves.

[@alexandremotkalyuk7184]

This time the music was in perfect harmonie with your voice, low enought to not disturb the comentary, but high enought to give the vibe. Amazing video btw

[@LoveYourNeighbour.]

Yes, I remember the music being too LOUD, a while back!

[@misterstudentloan2615]

My quantum states collapsed to "I should watch the video all the way through"

[@LoveYourNeighbour.]

My multiple options for what to click on next, 'collapsed' to: Quantum Biology: Irreducible Mind (Part 4)

[@downofdead12]

My mind was just blown (again). Explain that, Atheists 🤔

[@ArmorofTruth]

Exactly! Well said 👏🏼👏🏼

[@abdouliverpool247]

@L Lawliet So you've read comments , i mean seriously , this dude gives the source rather than just stating

[@joshuaphilip7601]

@Tyler B #2 I haven't watched the video yet but If it's anything like his past QM videos it is probably inaccurate, and I say this as a theist.

[@forgiven1683]

L Lawliet to you and Joshua I’ve been studying quantum mechanics for decades and nothing IP has proposed in these videos is inaccurate to the research. I can admit that not all physicists agree on the meaning of the data but scientists rarely agree on everything. As an example I’ve seen several popular physicists claim Quantum mechanics and the collapsing wave function Point to one ultimate observer that oversees the whole universe but remain avid atheists. The evidence from the unbiased research points to what IP is stating it’s individual opinions that interpret it in a materialistic way which holds many many problems.

[@thatonegamer9547]

L Lawliet @Forgiven can correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think he’s referring to view count.

[@user-k229]

Our dreams can take us anywhere! Places we have never seen, people we have never met and events that have never occured. If we stop to analyse dreams we may now be directed to the Quantum level to have any kind of understanding about dreams. Our consciousness and dreams exist in the Quantum realm. When we die, our bodies decay but consciousness gets removed at death and enters a quantum realm, we are returned to our Maker!..... just a thought.

[@transtheistdebates3549]

Great Video!!

[@tehdreamer]

Glad you finally touched on Stuart Hameroffs and Roger Penrose's Orch OR theory.

[@goertzpsychiatry9340]

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[@VicCrisson]

Great work, IP, thank you. Do you have anything in mind about the remnants of Sodom and Gomorrah ? Or the Exodus ?

[@InspiringPhilosophy]

Videos on that in the works

[@wildbeast7375]

@@InspiringPhilosophy Do you have one on the Exodus?

[@He.knows.nothing]

Maybe you need the natural selection of organic entities in the dimensions of general relativity for the mind to evolve consciousness? Hypothetically, the quantum biology emerges from the sub atomic superpositions of the computations made by the physical brain. The self awareness is emergent as a quantum bi-product of the frameworks influencing quantum mechanics through the neurochemical interactions occurring in classical physics. Always thought provoking

[@danielrayner9381]

Bruh,I should've studying Biology and Chemistry for my final but caught up with this lol

[@onseantm]

Thanks!

[@randyklinger7649]

Great, wish you'd cut the 'music', it's a distraction....

[@luisr5577]

Excellent video!

[@hopehope2316]

The Mind processes outside our own can be altered to do certain things that can hurt or heal I realized now and have come to that conclusion.

[@hopehope2316]

Btw, this has nothing to do with our soul spirit that GOD created us with.

[@l9mbus969]

yea but how do you control your mind at all ? how does that work? example: some one asks me what do you see when you look at this apple? I answer i see a red apple. Why do i not think about where the apple came from for example. Or why this person has an apple at all? In some situations it seems like that our mind is very limited shaped by our conditioning and surroundings. Do you think we control our mind at all?

[@hopehope2316]

@@l9mbus969 U believe we have spirit from GOD? If so in the end that's what matters, now tect these days can be used on you were ever u are even arter your thought process and control things including your perception, GOD is GREATER!

[@adaptercrash]

You should know that. Even I knew that and I had severe brain trauma.

[@brianeckes7minutesermonser840]

this stuff is way beyond me!

[@theophany150]

Very good! Thanks for another winner. Stuart Hameroff is pretty awesome too. And I am pretty sure you are all over Closer to Truth, right? You are tuned into the same subject matter.

[@boonga585]

Amazing videos love all of them

[@5BBassist4Christ]

Well, I'm not sure about some people, but your brain has to work on quantum computing levels to be small enough to fit inside a normal sized head. I was barely able to make it through this video trying to process it all.

[@darrelllee6792]

Wow I am really liking these videos Thanks !

[@luizgdavila]

Well done!

[@Atreus21]

This is truly remarkable sir. I don't know anyone else doing work like this.

[@Autobotmatt428]

I have heard these ideas have been gaining ground.

[@normaodenthal8009]

Wow 🤩 my mind has just been blown to a new quantum level! It’s almost too much for my little bird brain to fully take in, but I’m definitely flying higher after this video.

[@goertzpsychiatry9340]

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[@davidcates2639]

Hey IP, I really love most of your work, but after doing some searching around, it seems like there's not actually a ton of support for this idea currently...do you have any additional resources that point to this idea being the case? Some of the ones you cited in the description seem less than stellar.

[@vladislavstezhko1864]

I think that it is hard to support this idea with lots of scientific evidence, because the current measurement can't capture things on such a microscopic level. Quantum processes in the brain are very hard to measure, because once one will try to do it, they will disturb the quantum process.

[@Adrian-ri8my]

What do you guys think is the most essential apologetics literature? Which books are the most comprehensive and necessary to get started?

[@mikey.sdg-692]

On Guard by WLC is a good place to start! How Reason Leads to God by Josh Rasmussen is a really good one too.

[@Adrian-ri8my]

Mikhael Veryll Thanks, I’ll definitely check those out. God bless.

[@mikey.sdg-692]

@@Adrian-ri8my of course!

[@jesusirizarryrodriguez835]

Hey dude ex-atheist here You should get the book called Táctics is for online athiest trust me

[@boguslav9502]

I came to an interesting conclusion with the idea of removing properties. The basic idea is that all that there is is the result of adding properties. Essentially what we see is that all features of a new thing are contingent on the features of its prior parts. Anything that is emergent is emergent as a result of the interaction of properties. When we look at all sets of things that there are, we can make one of two assumptions. Materialism is not a property, or it is a property. if it is a property it follows that there must be a moment, even if transitionary, that describes immateriality. When looking at the quantum videos etc. I am having a hard time rejecting the idea that the quantumn realm so to speak is in fact this transitionary realm where the property of matieral is gained and lost. Thus the mind is immaterial and thus more fundumental than the matierial as it has no material property to it. Of course this leads us to God as the divine simple. The divine mind lacking all properties from which all comes. The idea of quantumn brain theory might give us insight into how the mind, an immaterial thing, interacts with the brain, a material thing. It also means the ławs of the universe are in fact prior to the materiał and thus can be modeled by similarly immaterial means, abstracts, or numbers. now that my quazi philosophical garble has been put out there. Great video as always. I find the mind particularly fascinating as it is possibly the most pressing matter of modernity. Why? Because the truth is we dont even know what we are. We have made all tehse discoveries about the universe, our world, and yet we have no idea what we really are at all. At least scientifically that is. If we allow for the mind to be imamterial that also means that any phenomena that is also imamterial is only subject to investigation by the imamterial. That is unless we somehow manage to use this transitionary space, quantum space, as a means of by proxy measuring that which lacks the property of materialism. If this kind of theory is true, then who knows what awaits!

[@pwharman]

I did quite like this episode. The stuff around quantum biology was engaging. I recommend the book Life on the Edge. Unfortunately I think the episode became highly speculative and vague when you got onto the soul and it being quantum in nature. You can just as easily postulate that consciousness forms from quantum "weirdness", it's not really an explanation.

[@femmedracula6857]

I don't think he actually said the soul was quantum in nature. He proposed that consciousness acts on the brain through quantum processes - specifically, wave function collapse. He proposed that consciousness is not a physical thing at all. I'm not stating agreement with that here, just clarifying what I understood the video to say.

[@pwharman]

@@femmedracula6857 at 18.30 he says the mind "would manifest with a quantum like nature". It just strikes me as a way of utilising a poorly understood concept (colloquially quantum wierdness) and shoe horning a radical idea in there.

[@femmedracula6857]

@@pwharman yeah, the phrasing is far from ideal, I agree.

[@jjphank]

He did disprove that all thoughts are not coming chemically from the brain without the measurement of quantum mechanics. And the L7L6 experiment did the same They had the same measure of lithium because they’re the same number of electrons.

[@MrCod18]

One can only hope.

[@hugo-garcia]

A video about science never made me cry before. Now it did.

[@SoniaSae]

To be free doesn’t mean that our behaviour is not determined by the laws of nature. It means that it’s determined by the laws of nature acting in our brain. Our free decisions are freely determined by the results of the rich and fleeting interactions between the billion neurons in our brain. They are free to the extend that the interaction of these neurons allows and determines.

[@tehdreamer]

That's exactly what the theory of quantum wavefunction collapse in the microtubules of the neurons oppose, as described in this video. Consciousness is NOT billions of interactions between neurons, and the atheistic AI folks in silicon valley can't prove it is.

[@Tzimiskes3506]

If it is fully guided by the laws of nature... then were merely reacting to our environment and not actually doing any science...

[@namyohorengekyo1882]

Thank you for the great modern knowledge.you are puring on us excellent deep knowledge God bless you

[@dr.satishsharma9794]

Excellent.... thanks 🙏.

[@mathiashansson2492]

amazing, thank you so much!!

[@mariapaolasantini1359]

Very fascinating but I am afraid that Tubulin is made of many other amino acids all with spinning electrons etc.. all maybe causing the superposition. There would be a lot of confusion in the quantum brain if this theory is true and it would require so much energy (the molecule of energy in biology is ATP) to collapse the system into one. Not really so much of an evolutionary advantage. Tubulin has several isoforms and post translational modifications, making its structure very complex and definitely explaining in a sensate way the variety of decisions taken by the brain. The tryptophan story does not make any biological meaning. I am not sure what the scientific papers claim but it is definitely worth reading them.

[@chaellavalkenaar5309]

This video has more uses of the word "quantum" than a Stage Four Marvel movie.

[@paulodaniel4881]

God bless you man, nice job! But i'm in doubt, and the Libet experience about the free will? That the brain decides some milliseconds before

[@Rafu-uf8eh]

The readiness potential which supposedly produces the will is still present without a conscious decision. So it cannot create the will. God bless

[@pancakefist4716]

I expected roger penrose to be mentioned in this video. He did a lot of work on quantum mechanics and consciousness..

[@rocketman2628]

Does he agree with Mike Jones?

[@MrVladanbajic]

Great. Similar thinking... Serbia

[@cebro648]

Very interesting Video, I have one question if you mind. How can you say that conciousness does not emerge from quantum mechanisms giving that quantum mechanism have a role in these biological systems ? Afterall many Atheist argue that quantum mechanisms is fundamental. And it gives them an excuse for not accepting a designer. Can you make that distinction between a creator using quantum mechanics vs Quantum Mechanics being the creator?

[@dynamicloveministries334]

1. Can you therefore die or do we live forever? 2. What need would there be for a bodily resurrection to save man and give him eternal life?

[@eyeexaggerate7687]

I guess the only question I have is how does this jive with Einstein saying that there are processes below the quantum?

[@johnweber4029]

I want 2 thank you IP with this series on the irreducible mind and breaking it down to make it understandable to me because I amnot really very knowledgeable with quantum mechanics 👍😎

[@thefish5861]

john weber You and just about every other person on earth! Nobody understands quantum mechanics.

[@sheenaalexis8710]

@@thefish5861 except all of the know it alls in the yt comment section...don't forget them

[@thefish5861]

Sheena Alexis87 YT comments generally make me lose all hope for mankind.

[@sheenaalexis8710]

@@thefish5861 ohhh same here. Nothing gets me more irritated. Lol

[@calebp6114]

IP - how would you respond to Craig's statement that the Copenhagen interpretation is complete gibberish? I'm not too sure who to trust atm.

[@InspiringPhilosophy]

Why? I never understood his point. The Copenhagen interpretation is a pragmatic interpretation, but if you just follow it to the philosophical conclusions you get the orthodox interpretation and it makes sense, you just have to recognize it leads to idealism.

[@pwharman]

@@InspiringPhilosophy Do you concede that there is very little scientific consensus on QM interpretations? The Copenhagen interpretation is very often considered to be wrong, as are the others.

[@InspiringPhilosophy]

@@pwharman Of all the interpretations the overwhelming support Copenhagen. See: arxiv.org/abs/1612.00676

[@pwharman]

@@InspiringPhilosophy Direct quote: "Out of 1234, only 150 participated in the survey, corresponding to about 12% answering the survey.". That said, I think Copenhagen is taught to students, so you might expect people not directly working in this area not to question the "official" line too much

[@thefish5861]

I keep waiting for Craig to finally reveal how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

[@duongkstn]

Hi, I have a question : quantum consciouness == self ? what is self ?

[@saammahakala]

Consciousness/light-essence existed in a nascent state before the evolution of these physical bodies. It is because of the physical body and it's life(lives) that an awareness or single identity is capable of gaining definition. If a state of consciousness existed for but one life., this human species could never have evolved to the point "we" are currently at. Religion is for the metaphorically challenged just as Science can never measure that which gave it substance.

[@johnweber4029]

Matthieu keep watching IP's vids and I'm certain that he wil make connections and answer some of your questions on the truth and believability on the existence of God

[@abhishekshah11]

aneer-ban bondho-padh-yaaye. That's how its pronounced. Source: I'm from calcutta.

[@hopehope2316]

at IP, they now can read people's thoughts without knowing it! Real deal just look into it to where you dreams and even body can be controlled! Ill ask you something do u think were in the end of the ege? Someone like yourself can do the reaserch and just keep speading the Gospel!

[@catalyst3713]

Can you expand upon this or provide a link?

[@thatonegamer9547]

Ah my head! But I’m still addicted to watching these! Another great video.

[@goertzpsychiatry9340]

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[@madelynhernandez7453]

I am currently very and extremely in distress as I have been looking into mostly by another person who led me there, into the non dualism thing, that we don't really exist, that we are the universe experiencing or trying to understand itself. That there is no such thing as a personal God who hears prayers, only a type of eternal form or consciousness which somehow accidently poped everything into existence but really we are all just that stream, all our thoughts, emotions, fears, whatever are not real, its our ego or self and this idea that if we let go of that then we see this non duality and all this stuff. I know no one will comment anything on this most likely. I was already doubting God now I am so confused and honestly in despair. Anyone been through this? What do you think about this non duality stuff that is become very popular.

[@alephgates7519]

Just saw this and it is incredibly late, but didn't want a "distress" comment to go without at least followup and to wish you a peaceful Monday.

[@michaelanderson6519]

What's the mechanism by which widespread coherence changes the action potential in a neuron? You explain that tryptophan can enter into an electron cloud with itself in different configurations, but how does that ACTUALLY effect what the neuron is doing? Do varying arrangements of topological cubits influence vesicular transport? Does either kinesin or dynein (the proteins that walk across microtubules) recognize these changes. I am honestly asking because I see a very big explanatory gap that I have yet see resolved.

[@joop5415]

How is this theory not just hidden variables? And if there aren't any hidden variables, is the mind and decision making purely stochastic?

[@l9mbus969]

But how do we control our mind at all? we have thoughts, they arise. They are limited. There are so many limitations when it comes to thoughts and mind. Our whole life gets motivated by thoughts you can't really deny that. Why is it that when im having a conversation or when some one asks me anything i come up with some specific answer out of so many possibilitys or when i am laying in bed falling asleep my mind is racing non stop and it doesn't seem like i am the thinker at all i can maybe react to the thoughts or not i can be aware of them but to me it seems like thoughts expand how ever they want like space itself. I don't think that there is such thing as conscious thought at all. To me it feels like we are automatas :/

[@goertzpsychiatry9340]

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[@IHeIReigns]

Where do you happen to get access to all these books?

[@dennisalwine4519]

Great video, one of your most thought-provoking! I suggest, though, the part on 'superposition' might be a bit misconceived. "A quantum system can behave as if it is in multiple states at the same time until it is measured." 'Can behave' would seem to imply observation, which would collapse the wave function unless one qualifies that the statement describes only an abstraction of probable properties. Physicists *imply* a condition of superposition of *probabilities* apart from observation, yet a superposition of actual properties does not occur, Schrödinger and his cat notwithstanding...Maybe it's better and more disciplined to simply state that, apart from measurement, the properties of a system exist as a set of probabilities evolving deterministically according to the Schrödinger equation, yet manifest in the actual world according to ontic randomness and observer decision. And FWIW I would concur that mind only resembles quantum processes. For, how can mind be precisely subject to quantum regularities if, in fact, it is inherently continuously observed? It seems there must be some distinction.

[@AnnHope53]

Hi InspiringPhilosophy. I believe you did a video on the Prodical Son, however I can not find it, was it removed? It was quite some time ago.

[@Naxt366]

music makes it appear dubious. not a good decision

[@dathurleyfella5225]

Where does the mind come from and when does it appear in the human body? I ask this from both theological and scientific views

[@franklinayala4879]

Soul body spirit from Christ

[@richardokeefe7410]

I'm sorry, but this is just such bad science.7:15. Yes, lithium 6 and Lithium 7 have the same number of electrons. NO, that does NOT mean they are chemically identical. Because they have different MASSES. "Li6 (spin=1) has a 50-fold smaller quadrupolar moment than Li7 (spin=3/2)". The two isotopes have detectably different line spectra, meaning that they have (slightly) different electron energy levels, meaning that they have (slightly but detectably) different CHEMISTRY. They undergo the same reactions, but at different rates. Rates matter.

[@nireekshanaanand3464]

Yep my prediction came true this video would be irreducible mind part 4

[@surreygeorge11]

So is the superposition always binary? Is it possible to have a negative superposition? This is a bit of a stretch for me.

[@zephyr-117sdropzone8]

No

[@greginfla_1]

I sure wish these videos were recorded in English.

[@Neorient]

I am a Muslim quantum engineer and you led me to think quantum biology can explore thought disorders like hyperactive loose associations

[@goertzpsychiatry9340]

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[@dr.williams9238]

If the brain uses quantum processes magnetic resonance imaging and other sources of EMF could alter function.

[@anglicanaesthetics]

BuT ThIs Is JuSt QuAnTuM WoO!!!! #inb4physicalists

[@hadmiar8]

The argument that a non-material mind violates the law of conservation of energy strikes me as even more idiotic. Energy as we know it only applies to physical systems, and the objection makes no sense if the mind is not wholly physical.

[@redbad2652]

@Inspiringphilosophy what do you mean when you say there is no physical equation to explain the quantum collapse?