Electricity creates consciousness | Nick Lane

[@geoffroberts1131]

Was it Roger Penrose who said "don't ask if consciousness exists. Ask if anything else does" I like the inquiry though

[@ivanmzrnic6475]

Nick lane came to Turkey a week ago for an amazing presentation about consciousness. It was great and had a chance to meet w him!

[@JagadguruSvamiVegananda]

Great and lowly are RELATIVE. 😉 Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱

[@yavuzbahadrtaktak8020]

omg where

[@busrademirci4556]

@@yavuzbahadrtaktak8020did you figure out where?

[@semblazregragui]

We need to know where apparently

[@ivanmzrnic6475]

@@busrademirci4556 acibadem üniversitesi ALIS kongresi

[@MrJustSomeGuy87]

This comment section is a cesspool. Random dismissals, strange judgmental reaction. Thank you for a great presentation Nick!

[@JagadguruSvamiVegananda]

Great and lowly are RELATIVE. 😉 Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱

[@TheVeganVicar]

Great and lowly are RELATIVE. 😉 Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱

[@maconcamp472]

The Big Bang Theory!! 🐘 🐾 🥁 Each thought represents a bang❗️Higher vibrational thoughts 🐝🐝🐝 will create bigger bangs‼️ Pebbles And Bam Bam!! 🧊 🦕 🧊 🦖 🧊 🦣 🧊 Each grain of sand or pebble, a building block for planets or dark matter!! 🪨 Dark energy aka consciousness, creates the bang!! Supernovae!! 💥 Super Moons!! Flowery moons!! 🌹 Saturn a flowery moon!! Representing the 6th dimension!! More energy!!🪐 🛸 We control it!! 🧞 We’re stars!!✨ Hi, Hey, Hello!!🦜 The more G’s, the better!! They’ll reflect our minds, technology, and more!! G strings!! 👙 👙👙👙 Our brains look like gum!! 🧠 Juicier the better!!!🍏🍋‍🟩🫐🍍🍎🍌🍈🥥🍐🍉🍒🥝🍊🍇🍑🍋🍓🥭 Love everything until it loves you back!! Mosquitos too!!🦟 ❤ Each of us and each galaxy would represent a cell!! 🦠 We’re stars putting ourselves back together again!! Like Humpty Dumpty!! 🥚 🐓 The sky is blue because we’re meant to imagine it as a diamond!! The auroras then create the rest of the spectrum!! 🌈 💎 A purple sky would reflect the heart of the ocean!! An opened mind!! 🤯 The earth purring more!! Purrrrrple rain!!☔️ 🐈‍⬛ 🧶 Each thought to me is a solar flare, which shifts us into parallel worlds!! It’s hard here!!! I’m a peaceful dude, yet my life here has been super difficult!!🥹 Alpha Centauri represents a shift in consciousness!! Dog planet!! We’re riding the alpha waves!! Woof woof!!🐶 🐾 This is our world peace and enlightenment for the world and universe!! All is one!!😇🥳🥰🤩 We’re each a mini universe!!🌌 The 3 Body Problem represents our gut brain, 🍱 heart,❤️ and mind!! 🧠 The moon is a black hole!! 🕳️ A neutrino!! The planet is a colonized moon!!😇🌍👽 The sun is a shapeshifter!! 🌞 Are you and I sculpting together as a team or as individuals??? 🧑‍🎨 Using the moon as a tool!!! 🪨 The Sun is the eye!!👁️ I love the tool/word grinder!!!😮 We’d be Bumping and Grinding!!😂 The Earth is like a refrigerator and the atmospheric pressure is melting or defrosting the stars above, as if they’ve been in the freezer!! 🥶 It would also reflect us krystalyzing and becoming diamonds in the sky!! 💎 💎💎 Lucy becomes Maisie!! 🐒 👽 We could be stars from above aka heaven, melting everything from above, as well! Like a River Running Through It!!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Gravitational waves or our thoughts raining down on us!! 🌧️ Unlocking a Secret Garden within and outside of us!!🤫 An Oasis!!!🏝️ 🏝️🏝️🏝️🏝️ Flowing!!! It helps a lot to flow!!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Letting go, so we can concentrate more and work on our project!! Heaven On Earth!!🌍 👼 Flowers!! 🌺 🌸 💐 and Flow-Ers!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 I know energy is still impurrtant!! 😻 And of course imagination!!! Love!!!💗 🐶 🎾 🧶 🐈‍⬛ To create heaven On Earth, the galaxies collide!! 🌌 Twin flames connect!! 🔥 🔥 We’re creating quantum entanglement!! Ghost particles merging, becoming more like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 The universe is still the Earth!!⭐️🌍⭐️ We’re seeing it from the insides!! 🕵️ Like we’re inside a volcano 🌋 or wishing well!! The stars and galaxies are like coins!!🪙 The Goonies vibes!! 💀 We’re treasure!! Antarctica is treasure island!! 🐧🇦🇶 Unlocking antimatter!! 🐜 Booby and booty traps exposed!! Planet X!! Hubba Hubba!!🥰 Everything and everyone has been our teacher!!👩‍🏫 3D is like the murky bottom of a bong or volcano!!🌋 The fourth dimension, representing Mars is like the stem of the bong or the volcanos vent!! 👽 Experiencing higher dimensions is like the smoke or magma reaching our mouths 😋 and then circulating through our bodies!! We are the Earth!!🌍 👼 The road less traveled!!!🧳 🌹 Straight up!! 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈We’d be super condensed or extremely packed neutron stars!! Like Rigel!! Blueberries!! Antioxidants!! Betelgeuse has evolved into a neutron star!! 🍊🫐 Our long winding road, exploring different dimensions, finally straightening out!! I’m getting Pee Wee vibes!! Large Marge sent me!!🚴😂 We’re vaporized, as if we’ve been smoked or roasted!! 💨 The smoke representing again those compressed neutron stars climbing the higher dimensions of the universe like a chimney!! I’m Mary Poppins, y’all !! ☂️ 🧞‍♀️ It would also represent us as a comet traveling through a wormhole!! 💫 Who me, I’m just a worm!!🐛 🫖 Solving a labyrinth!! 🦉 Solving amaze!!! 🦋 Different energies tell a different story!! 📚 We’re storytellers!! Artists!!🧑‍🎨 We’re energy first!! 🐝 A 12 inch boner is like receiving a foot of snow!!⛄️ 😂 When powered by neutrons and a magnetar energy field, one is like the energizer bunny!!🐰 They’ll keep going and going and going!! 🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇 If you’re destined to have more than one twin flame, you’re like Frogger, playing leap frog!! Lucy is a sucker for Lillies!! 🐸 🍀 🐸 🍀 🐸🍀🐸🍀🐸 G Force!!!🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳 Purrthquakes instead of Earthquakes!! 😻

[@OnlineMD]

Comment sections are ALWAYS what I call a "flaming mess." You know the term flaming, where people attack either the video or other commenters? The world has become such a fiery place of conflicts. It was no wonder the Buddha talked about the world being on fire; in fact it is called the Fire Sermon. Ah well, what to do.

[@TheVeganVicar]

@@user-ayush818, what is this “EGO” of which you speak? 🤔

[@angry_transvestite]

Everything 'alive' is conscious to some degree... self preservation points directly to consciousness. Even a tree will act to preserve itself, as will a protozoa. Study consciousness at all levels, not just in people!

[@williamvinton8105]

Consciousness is fundamental to our reality, once we rediscover this we will make more progress in 5 years than we have in the previous 100

[@anzacman5]

The progress has started.

[@DB-qz7se]

Once we rediscover warp drive we will make more progress in 1y than we did last 100years in travel combined.

[@73N5H1]

Rediscover... Tell me you drank the koolaid without telling me.

[@Siziusmopul]

​@@73N5H1 yes. Rediscover. Hermeticism has existed for 1000s of years. The universe is mental ALL is mind. This isn't a new idea

[@lordemed1]

Hats off toNick Lane. He leads in origin of life bold and creative thinking.

[@Skunk106]

I applaud all efforts to understand consciousness, whether from a Western or Eastern approach. I believe the Western approach helps bridge the physical gap and treating what ails our bodies, but it will never bring us happiness. I believe the Eastern approach does better at relieving suffering and self understanding but is more limited in fixing our physical bodies. The best scientists seem to have or develop a grasp for the significance of the spiritual side and the intrinsically limiting nature of a materialist approach to it all. Peace all, OM🕉

[@anzacman5]

Eg Rupert Sheldrake

[@antonjoubert6980]

What spiritual side? What even is 'spirit'?

[@Skunk106]

@@antonjoubert6980 Your asking is the first step.

[@Terrorbrot]

One is scientific research and the other is philosophy/ spirituality. Just as you I applaud all efforts but we really shouldnt get the 2 mixed up.

[@anzacman5]

@@Terrorbrot why not?

[@williamjmccartan8879]

Please upload the full version of this presentation here on youtube, it doesn't show the presentation on your homepage without signing up and that creates limitations on the engagement you are getting, peace

[@beatricebortoli3264]

we don't like scams

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

Dominion (2018)

[@The-Wide-Angle]

Money, money, money.... rules the world. ;)

[@hanswissmeyer9950]

Yes, electricity creates consciousness! I experienced it when I was tired from work & wanted to switch off my light, but touched the unisolated wires instead. Bam! In a millisecond I was fully awake & clear in mind like never before in my life!

[@Digithaiz]

That is called adrenaline

[@neonpop80]

You were awake for a millisecond only or you’ve been so awake since then? If so, I might wanna give myself a shot of that

[@hanswissmeyer9950]

@@neonpop80 I was awake for an hour. Once met a guy who was struck by a lightning & he told me he is awake since then. However he could not stop talking, so I can not recommend it.😂

[@hanswissmeyer9950]

@@neonpop80 I was awake for an hour. Once met a guy who was struck by a lightning & he told me he is awake since then. However he could not stop talking, so I can not recommend it.😂

[@neonpop80]

@@hanswissmeyer9950 Haha. Very interesting but also funny in a cartoony way.

[@jSpirituS7]

I think he did his job And got us to think about it from another perspective A perspective from one of the most influential modern scientists at the moment 🙏🏼

[@Arashiii87]

Consciousness might not be a binary attribute but a spectrum of awareness and cognitive capability. Different organisms might exhibit different levels of consciousness based on their neurological and biochemical complexity.

[@Neon_White]

I think that's true; I conceive of consciousness as a function of how much choice is available. More possibilities = more conscious. So something like a rock would have virtually no choice, so is barely conscious if at all. A particle-particle interaction would have a quanta of choice if there were multiple possibilities to select from, therefore exhibits a quanta of consciousness. Humans have the highest level of potential we know of, and also seem to be the most conscious. So computers are about as conscious as rocks, because they are deterministic, but if randomness is ever integrated into computing somehow, I think AI might actually gain sentience. Would be impossible for us to tell if it is actually conscious, or just pseudoconscious though, unless mindmelding turns out to be a thing.

[@bobkoure]

@@Arashiii87 Exactly. One of his points (elsewhere, not in this talk) is that 'proticity' - the electrical charge across a procaryote's membrane - gives it a quick summation on 'how am I doing? Do I move towards this thing or away?'. Turn off proticity altogether and we're immediately dead; turn it off partially and we're anesthetized. He's got some interesting things to say about miolecular chirality through the electron transport chain (complex 1 in particular). Pity the full video is behind a pay wall. :-(

[@huidaoren]

@@Neon_White that's confusing consciousness with the ability to think. You can be conscious without thoughts which are a material product of the mind not the mind itself.

[@Neon_White]

@@huidaoren i didnt say anything about thinking. Perhaps you are confusing choosing with thinking?

[@lordkid10]

Electricity comes from consciousness for the sole fact that electricity is an a-b linear time model. Where as consciousness is a step beyond quantitative experience and perception

[@Terrorbrot]

​@@DoublePhoenixAlchemy not to be disrespectful but i dont think you get much of anything. Throwing all the science words into one single sentence sadly doesnt mean you have a theory of everything. You simply have a mess in wich everything means essentially the same. Sure phsysicists are also trying to do that all the time but on the basis of math. Gravity does not "control" time, rather its a result of the curvature of spacetime. And gravity and spacetime still arent the same thing. So one might perhaps say they correlate, but im sure that's also mathematically inaccurate. Also electrons are matter themselves.

[@Iseeyou317]

I didn’t watch the video but the title alone had me thinking- my mother was a physician who watched people at times pass and they died when the monitored electricity left their body. If Electricity follows Newton’s laws then we and everything else continually change forms even in death and or after or before life again in some form or another consciousness is awareness. Being, existing beyond a dog , more in a reflective self realization of separateness in human form from all else though we aren’t always. Consciousness happens due to the movement of the electricity - the force of it as sparked awareness is no more than location mapping for recall to strive in one form as we know it but it may not exist if the human doesn’t

[@Iseeyou317]

@@BloodSweatAndMeth I love a critic. I read somewhere look to criticism fir truths to make your own argument more sound and better for debate. I click on these things because like you I have interest. I wrote a book on the theory of this but realized I am voicing opinions that weren’t asked for. I think in my comment, I only described what someone else witnessed and then loosely, likely incorrectly described the difference between consciousness and awareness. Thank you for humbling my voice..no pride in my thoughts

[@Kqt7029]

Electricity is one of the manifestations of consciousness.

[@stevenmoore3480]

more likely scenario than this load of old garbage

[@stevenmoore3480]

more likely than this guys load of owl bollix

[@thedodubb]

this is exactly right, for me preference is equal to consciousness. fundamental

[@straightedgerc]

"Do we know we are here occupying space?" is the same question as "does the space we occupy know it occupies space?" which is tautologically true because the space asked about itself. Therefore, "why do we know we are here occupying space?" is the same question as "why does the space we occupy know it occupies space?" and the answer is because we asked.

[@petermiesler9452]

7:50 ... (8:50 ...) here's a key lesson on how to approach learning. Another wonderfully interesting talk by Nick Lane. 👍

[@fancee_shmancee]

I think you're right. Dr Susan Pockett has presented and developed this theory. It's fascinating. Recommend her book.

[@AryanBenita]

Fantastically explained!!!……Electricity plays a big role in universe and definitely has something to do with Life! …..Thank you very much!

[@mike-q2f4f]

Here's where it could go at the end: electrical signals are playing music with voltage patterns oscillating inside of mitochondria. This means the Bene Gesserit from Dune succeeded and we are governed by mitochondria.

[@straightedgerc]

"Occupying space" is interchangeable with "conscious of", semantically, whether you are talking about seeing a rock, or seeing your hand, or imagining a rock, or imagining your hand. Does the space we occupy also occupy space? Yes, obviously. Therefore, explaining "the space we occupy" is the process from which consciousness itself is created and emergent.

[@stekons]

It seems that gravity has to do more with consciousness than electricity

[@straightedgerc]

Consciousness of an explanation of how consciousness works requires the explanation simultaneously both appear and appear to work. So, consciousness itself emerges from explaining how consciousness works. More verbosely, consciousness itself (the appearance of an explanation) emerges from (was always contained in) explaining how consciousness works (the explanation of how appearance of an explanation works).

[@joeschaar3172]

If electrical currents create consciousness, then the sun must be a super-consciousness !

[@stephenduplantier2151]

@@joeschaar3172 Rupert Sheldrake would likely agree.

[@liminalkid]

Sun has been regarded as conscious throughout history by various peoples.

[@margueriteoreilly2168]

Nick is a good laugh ...isn't Science meant to be a good laugh....we need happy faces enlightening our children and adults like me Belfast Ireland 🇮🇪

[@jcgdijkstra]

KZbin's algorithms recommended this video (thanks!). Some thoughts on consciousness: considering that our physical reality is an electromagnetic phenomenon, that we -or everything really- maybe "just" thoughts in the mind of the omnipotent (Jewish Kabbalah?), is consciousness not just an expression of the omnipotent in everything as a way to experience itself? If we limit consciousness to aspects of behaviour only, then even e.g. chess programs exhibit a form of consciousness in their limited domain. How should we define consciousness? BTW, fascinating video, thank you Nick!

[@YawnGod]

Upon rubbing the balloon to your head, you charge the balloon, and the balloon becomes an aware sentience after having interacted with you and becomes aware of all the dust in the room and wants to help you clean the room. Thanks, Jordan Peterson!

[@durere]

Geordi Peterson, he's about to breach the final frontier.

[@iamcharuni]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@glenliesegang233]

Sentience, no. Interaction through fields. Living cells respond in almost infinitely complex ways from trillions of atoms up. All life is processes, not things.

[@YawnGod]

@@glenliesegang233 Thanks for the clarification. What's the minimum number of atoms before living cells can respond in almost infinitely complex ways? Just give me a number. Easy request. Can't fail.

[@WalterSamuels]

@@YawnGod n^n

[@TheCellarGuardian]

Electrical activity in the brain is how general consciousness represents the dissociative boundary called self within the thought called universe.

[@Yatukih_001]

Human consciousness is inside and outside of the physical body. The psthological state of mind, is inside. Consciousness is everywhere. All around you. Debate settled.

[@73N5H1]

No it isn't

[@observerone6727]

"Debate settled" is proof of a closed mind. Closed minds don't get to ascend Mount Enlightenment.

[@denniswinters3096]

Consciousness creates electricity.

[@philpickering6132]

So subconscious actions have no potential then?

[@silverlake973]

@@philpickering6132 There is no such thing as 'sub conscious' - only to the mind which is limited, as a jar is to containing space.

[@philpickering6132]

Exactly ❤​@@silverlake973

[@subtlesuplex2394]

Other way around

[@NerdFamousPodcast]

Perhaps consciousness is electricity?

[@straightedgerc]

The conscious experience called "I" is said to emerge by filling the space occupied by the material experience called "you". Therefore, the emergence of consciousness is semantics (a choice of wording) because the space is already filled by you.

[@remakanthana8316]

Life energy and consciousness are two separate entities, But are so closely associated. This is why one may confuse energy as consciousness. Life energy is essential for consciousness to sustain or operate in this material body (of even a cell / bacteria).

[@LambentIchor]

Aren't you just starting with the assumption - likely based in Indian dualism I assume from your name - that there is a fundamental dualism between some life energy (prana?) and consciousness? Just because there exist concepts like 'life energy' and consciousness doesn't mean they actually exist. Life energy as an idea is not supported by evidence. It basically goes back to a human solution to the question of what is the difference between a dead body and a living one. The most obvious difference is that dead bodies cease to move, and cease to breath. The idea that 'breath' or air is what causes movement is intuitively attractive. The physical act of breathing is then abstracted in thought to point to some force that is separate from matter that animates it. Prana, the Indian concept, breaks down basically to 'pra' as a prefix to nouns that intensifies the root in one sense. Combined with the root 'an' it means to breathe, to be alive. The words used for this idea in Europe are ultimately the same. Animals, animated go back to 'anima', which being a proto-Indo-European word '*ane', also breathe. One of the greatest lessons we can learn from modern science is that all human conceptions are actually mental models. Different models can be instructive and useful, but they are always partial. And I know that this intuition is present even in Indian philosophy. The point I'm trying to make is that if you insist that there is ultimately some duality between "Life energy and consciousness" you are just insisting that an Indian conceptual model is reality, and losing sight of the fact that it is only a map that describes a territory, and not the territory itself. Then you just get caught up in the same old arguments between dualism and non-dualism.

[@durere]

@@LambentIchor What I understood from his comment is that consciousness is basically spirits. I agree. You talk too much, and all you did was criticize the guy's map. I wouldn't wanna be lost in the woods with you.

[@LambentIchor]

@@durere All you're doing is putting a label, spirits, on consciousness. Another outdated concept that has no scientific value. As it happens, I didn't just criticise the guy's map. I just tried to point out that we're always dealing with kinds of maps/models. Einstein wasn't criticising Newton when he came up with his theory of relativity. Newton's model worked perfectly well with macrocosmic phenomena, but was useless when it came to describing light and other electromagnetic radiation. But you do you, call it 'spirits' if you want. I don't see how that throws any light on consciousness at all. You're just swapping a more modern label, what we call consciousness now for another older one, 'spirits'. As if that gives some greater understanding.

[@Iwantalloftheinformation]

I like to imagine something similar to this video. Consciousness may be just light itself and the mind and perception is light filtering through the circuitry of our brain.

[@geoffroberts1131]

You see if you're going to comment say exactly what your objection is and let everyone test it. So if not electricity, what? If 2 separate things then what is the other thing you've identified? If different from electricity, how so? What have you discovered that leads you to this belief. Show us.

[@QOOQ00ooo]

Excellent talk! I love the idea that consciousness is a product of the Integration of Information - in this case mediated by the membrane potential of the mitochondria?

[@straightedgerc]

A learning machine that learns to learn has learned about itself. Proving consciousness is a demonstration of unsupervised machine learning.

[@waylonbarrett3456]

@@straightedgerc I am building such a machine. Would you like to help me test it?

[@straightedgerc]

How do we know consciousness is a demonstration of electricity? Because writing an autobiography (the consciously told story of conscious experiences) is caused by electricity moving the hands to type. How do we know we exist? How (by which electrical mechanism) do we (biological forms of electricity) know (a demonstration of electricity, per above) we exist (occupy space)? Because electricity occupies space.

[@dennisschott2352]

No electricity doesn't cause consciousness, it is an observable effect of active consciousness.

[@risingphoenix8056]

Not true. Even when brain dead, you have people reporting they were conscious. Also Sadhguru reports being tested whilst "meditating", and the experimenters thought the equipment was faulty, because completely silent.

[@MrPartch]

@@risingphoenix8056 bullshit

[@samiamoon7829]

Observing its effect after its involvement in creation is just a bonus

[@trevconn123]

They are two sides of the same coin. While a transverse wave leads to electromagnetism, a longitudinal/torsion/scalar wave may be intrinsically related to consciousness. This can be further explored by examining the microtubules in the nervous system and their intrinsic connection to quantum wave functions.

[@WalterSamuels]

Yeah, I thought this was going to be a cool discovery about how not only is consciousness transmitting signals across the synaptic pathways, but also that the dendrites are transmitting and receiving signals through electromagnetic field resonance couplings outside of the synapses, and that the maintenance of this resonant coupling is a key aspect of consciousness itself. Not something that has been researched extensively to my knowledge, but there is already existing evidence that communication using EM waves is something that happens.

[@TheDjnatronic]

Keep trying Nick eventually you’ll get there

[@DrakeRude]

20/180 ratio = 1/9. Inversely proportional with the 9/1 EMF and geomagnetic polarity! Fascinating! Phenomenal! :D

[@DrakeRude]

Seeing the membrane EM potential increase as 'consciousness' as represented by flow of electrons between oxygen in a system decreases is also not counterintuitive at all. Inversely proportional as well, as is everything. Scaling with mass/volume and frequency/wavelength.

[@AdamBechtol]

Nick rocks, super exciting and interesting stuff.

[@straightedgerc]

Anyone reading "I think, therefore I am" implies they think which proves they exist taking space. So, consciousness (proof of existence) emerged as a figure of speech meaning to "take space". Verbosely and as an explicit strange loop, "I think, therefore I am, therefore I think, therefore I am".

[@zipperpillow]

I have trapped foxes for 50 years, and never found one that had chewed its leg off for any reason. Most commonly, they are calmly laying down and very often sleeping. The trap was not aware that it had caught a fox.

[@4D2M0T]

Yes exactly, although sometimes the trap breaks the leg bone and the fox pulls the foot off the flesh trying to escape in the initial fear response, Definitely never seen one chewed off

[@philpickering6132]

Are you aware of being aware?

[@durere]

I've never met a fox trapper, but you sure as the woods shittin bear sound like one. But how do we know that you really speak trap language?

[@cronoscoin417]

The trap is only a concept, it doesn't exist in nature, so it's not real and wouldn't have consciousness as such. But the constituent parts would have their respective consciousness

[@Needless2say]

Disharmony, resentment, anger, greed, jealousy and other unfavorable emotions and thoughts create resistance in the circuits equating to a low frequency mode of operation.

[@jerryrichardson2799]

The _only_ reason I clicked on this is it's Nick Lane, the tagline is preposterous. I'm being _super_ nice here.

[@robmoore7708]

Consciousness is the 'light' that God created.

[@straightedgerc]

How do we know we exist, or equally, why are we conscious? Because we are asking, "is the space we occupy occupied?" The conscious experience called "we" that knows we exist, emerges if it can fill the space occupied by the material experience called "us" that already exists. Therefore, it is true that the space we occupy is already occupied by us.

[@jonathans.bragdon5934]

Consciousness is consciousness.

[@johnchase2148]

❤We are all just energy in constant motion that is shared and not controlled .Ask and you may receive with respect for free will. Think as if everything is telepathic..

[@marcobiagini1878]

I am a physicist and I will explain why our scientific knowledge refutes the idea that consciousness is generated by the brain and that the origin of our mental experiences is physical/biological . My argument proves that the fragmentary structure of brain processes implies that brain processes are not a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness, which existence implies the existence in us of an indivisible unphysical element, which is usually called soul or spirit (in my youtube channel you can find a video with more detailed explanations). I also argue that all emergent properties are subjective cognitive contructs used to approximately describe underlying physical processes, and that these descriptions refer only to mind-dependent entities. Consciousness, being implied by these cognitive contructs, cannot itself be an emergent property. Preliminary considerations: the concept of set refers to something that has an intrinsically conceptual and subjective nature and implies the arbitrary choice of determining which elements are to be included in the set; what exists objectively are only the single elements. In fact, when we define a set, it is like drawing an imaginary line that separates some elements from all the other elements; obviously this imaginary line does not exist physically, independently of our mind, and therefore any set is just an abstract and subjective cognitive construct and not a physical entity and so are all its properties. Similar considerations can be made for a sequence of elementary processes; sequence is a subjective and abstract concept. Mental experience is a precondition for the existence of subjectivity/arbitrariness and cognitive constructs, therefore mental experience cannot itself be a cognitive construct; obviously we can conceive the concept of consciousness, but the concept of consciousness is not actual consciousness. (With the word consciousness I do not refer to self-awareness, but to the property of being conscious= having a mental experiences such as sensations, emotions, thoughts, memories and even dreams). From the above considerations it follows that only indivisible elements may exist objectively and independently of consciousness, and consequently the only logically coherent and significant statement is that consciousness exists as a property of an indivisible element. Furthermore, this indivisible entity must interact globally with brain processes because we know that there is a correlation between brain processes and consciousness. This indivisible entity is not physical, since according to the laws of physics, there is no physical entity with such properties; therefore this indivisible entity can be identified with what is traditionally called soul or spirit. The soul is the missing element that interprets globally the distinct elementary physical processes occurring at separate points in the brain as a unified mental experience. Some clarifications. The brain doesn't objectively and physically exist as a mind-independent entity since we create the concept of the brain by separating an arbitrarily chosen group of quantum particles from everything else. This separation is not done on the basis of the laws of physics, but using addictional subjective criteria, independent of the laws of physics; actually there is a continuous exchange of molecules with the blood and when and how such molecules start and stop being part of the brain is decided arbitrarily. Brain processes consist of many parallel sequences of ordinary elementary physical processes occurring at separate points. There is no direct connection between the separate points in the brain and such connections are just a subjective abstractions used to approximately describe sequences of many distinct physical processes. Indeed, considering consciousness as a property of an entire sequence of elementary processes implies the arbitrary definition of the entire sequence; the entire sequence as a whole (and therefore every function/property/capacity attributed to the brain) is a subjective abstraction that does not refer to any mind-independendent reality. Physicalism/naturalism is based on the belief that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain. However, an emergent property is defined as a property that is possessed by a set of elements that its individual components do not possess; my arguments prove that this definition implies that emergent properties are only subjective cognitive constructs and therefore, consciousness cannot be an emergent property. Actually, all the alleged emergent properties are just simplified and approximate descriptions or subjective/arbitrary classifications of underlying physical processes or properties, which are described directly by the fundamental laws of physics alone, without involving any emergent properties (arbitrariness/subjectivity is involved when more than one option is possible; in this case, more than one possible description). An approximate description is only an abstract idea, and no actual entity exists per se corresponding to that approximate description, simply because an actual entity is exactly what it is and not an approximation of itself. What physically exists are the underlying physical processes. Emergence is nothing more than a cognitive construct that is applied to physical phenomena, and cognition itself can only come from a mind; thus emergence can never explain mental experience as, by itself, it implies mental experience. My approach is scientific and is based on our scientific knowledge of the physical processes that occur in the brain; my arguments prove that such scientific knowledge excludes the possibility that the physical processes that occur in the brain could be a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness. Marco Biagini

[@TheVeganVicar]

Of course consciousness isn't generated by the brain - it originates from the big toes!

[@newplace2frown]

I got an AI to assess the validity of your argument, I think you failed- The argument presented by Marco Biagini raises several points concerning the nature of consciousness and its relationship with brain processes. Below, I will assess the validity of these points based on scientific and philosophical perspectives. 1. **Fragmentary Structure of Brain Processes**: Biagini argues that because brain processes are fragmentary, they cannot generate consciousness. This assertion assumes that the unity of consciousness requires a non-physical entity. However, neuroscience suggests that consciousness arises from the integrated activity of various brain regions. The brain's ability to integrate information from different processes, known as "binding," is well-documented. 2. **Indivisible Non-Physical Element**: Biagini claims that consciousness must involve an indivisible, non-physical element, often referred to as the soul. This view contrasts with the materialist perspective, which holds that consciousness emerges from physical processes in the brain. The concept of an indivisible soul lacks empirical support and relies more on metaphysical assumptions than scientific evidence. 3. **Emergent Properties and Cognitive Constructs**: Biagini asserts that emergent properties are subjective constructs and cannot explain consciousness. However, emergent properties are widely recognized in science as real phenomena arising from complex systems (e.g., the wetness of water from hydrogen and oxygen atoms). Consciousness can be seen as an emergent property resulting from complex neural interactions, even though our understanding of this emergence is still incomplete. 4. **Subjectivity and Arbitrariness in Set Definitions**: The argument that sets and sequences are subjective constructs does not undermine the physical reality of the brain or its processes. While conceptualizing the brain involves subjective criteria, the brain's physical existence and function are objective and observable. The subjective nature of our descriptions does not negate the objective phenomena they describe. 5. **Correlation Between Brain Processes and Consciousness**: Biagini acknowledges the correlation between brain processes and consciousness but argues for a non-physical interpreter (the soul) that unifies these processes. This interpretation is not necessary given current scientific understanding. Functional brain imaging shows that specific mental states correlate with specific brain activities, suggesting that the brain's physical processes are sufficient to account for consciousness. 6. **Physicalism/Naturalism and Emergent Properties**: The critique of physicalism and emergent properties rests on the claim that emergent properties are merely cognitive constructs. However, physicalism posits that mental phenomena, including consciousness, emerge from brain activity. This view is supported by extensive neuroscientific research showing how physical changes in the brain affect consciousness. **Conclusion**: While Biagini's argument presents an interesting perspective, it largely relies on metaphysical assumptions that are not supported by empirical evidence. The mainstream scientific view, based on substantial research, supports the idea that consciousness arises from complex neural interactions within the brain. Claims of an indivisible, non-physical soul fall outside the scope of scientific inquiry and into the realm of philosophical speculation.

[@marcobiagini1878]

@@newplace2frown You wrote:”I got an AI to assess the validity of your argument, I think you failed” What you have demonstrated is the failure of artificial intelligence and how incapable it is of analyzing rational arguments. Let's analyze AI's arguments: 1 “However, neuroscience suggests that consciousness arises from the integrated activity of various brain regions.” Neurosciences are concerned only with finding correlations between mental experiences and brain processes, and correlation does not mean causation. Actually, neuroscientists do not even have an idea of what an explanation of the existence of mental experiences might be like. Indeed, science is unable to explain the existence of consciousness even in principle; science has never even provided a clue to justify the existence of consciousness, science has never even provided an idea of what an explanation of the existence of mental experiences might be like. Neurosciences can never provide any valid explanation for the origin of consciousness, as neuroscience does not analyze brain processes at the most fundamental level, but only uses conceptual models that only appoximately describe the underlying physical processes; consciousness is the necessary preliminary condition for the existence of conceptual models, arbitrariness and any approximation; therefore, the hypothesis that neuroscience can explain the existence of consciousness implies a logical fallacy. Brain processes are determined by the laws of quantum physics and any attempt to provide a coherent scientific explanation for the existence of consciousness must be based on quantum physics; however, my arguments prove that the fragmentary nature of brain processes implies that brain processes cannot be a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness. 1 “The brain's ability to integrate information from different processes, known as "binding," is well-documented.” Information is meaning, and meaning exists only as a concept in a conscious mind. This implies that the brain cannot integrate information and that expression refers only to an abstract conceptual model of the brain and not to the physical brain; obviously consciousness is a precondition fir the existence of any conceptual model and therefore such conceptual model cannot be the cause of the existence of consciousness. 2 “Biagini claims that consciousness must involve an indivisible, non-physical element, often referred to as the soul. This view contrasts with the materialist perspective, which holds that consciousness emerges from physical processes in the brain. “ This is not an argument at all; my argument explicitly refutes the materialistic view. 3 “Biagini asserts that emergent properties are subjective constructs and cannot explain consciousness. However, emergent properties are widely recognized in science as real phenomena arising from complex systems (e.g., the wetness of water from hydrogen and oxygen atoms).” This is not an argument at all; my arguments proves that emergent properties are subjective constructs and cannot explain consciousness. For example you can consider wetness: Wetness is not at all a new property compared to the physical properties explicitly described by the fundamental laws of physics, but only an abstraction that refers to several different properties, such as the property of “sticking to objects” or “covering an object”. According to the laws of physics, water is a set of quantum particles and quantum particles can move and interact with other quantum particles; this is not an emergent property, but a fundamental property of quantum particles. The property of "sticking to objects" is simply an arbitrary way of describing the fundamental property of quantum particles to bind to each other, which is due to the attractive property of the electromagnetic interaction. The electromagnetic interaction is the fundamental interaction that determines all molecular processes; it can be both attractive and repulsive, depending on the sign of the charges, and its intensity can vary from zero to infinity, depending on the distance between the charges, which is why we observe very different behaviors at the macroscopic level. The property of "covering an object" is simply an arbitrary way of describing the property of molecules to move in space and occupy different positions. By the way, geometric properties cannot be considered emergent properties since they are intrinsic properties of space itself and space is a fundamental element in the laws of physics. No new properties are involved in wetness; wetness is only an abstract and subjective concept we use to approximately describe the underlying microscopic properties and processes, which are directly and more accurately described by the fundamental laws of physics, without any addictional assumptions and without involving any emergent properties. 4 “ While conceptualizing the brain involves subjective criteria, the brain's physical existence and function are objective and observable. The subjective nature of our descriptions does not negate the objective phenomena they describe.” False; the functions of the brain are not observable at all since they are only abstractions and we can never observe any abstraction “ Biagini acknowledges the correlation between brain processes and consciousness but argues for a non-physical interpreter (the soul) that unifies these processes. This interpretation is not necessary given current scientific understanding. Functional brain imaging shows that specific mental states correlate with specific brain activities, suggesting that the brain's physical processes are sufficient to account for consciousness.” False again: correlation does not mean causation. This argument is a typical example of the logical fallacy of non sequitur. 6 “ The critique of physicalism and emergent properties rests on the claim that emergent properties are merely cognitive constructs. However, physicalism posits that mental phenomena, including consciousness, emerge from brain activity.” This is not an argument at all; it simply states the fundamental premise of materialism; After all, saying that consciousness emerges is equivalent to saying that consciousness magically appears without any explanation. You should try to think instead of referring to useless AI.

[@marcobiagini1878]

You wrote:”I got an AI to assess the validity of your argument, I think you failed” What you have demonstrated is the failure of artificial intelligence and how incapable it is of analyzing rational arguments. Let's analyze AI's arguments: 1 “However, neuroscience suggests that consciousness arises from the integrated activity of various brain regions.” Neurosciences are concerned only with finding correlations between mental experiences and brain processes, and correlation does not mean causation. Actually, neuroscientists do not even have an idea of what an explanation of the existence of mental experiences might be like. Indeed, science is unable to explain the existence of consciousness even in principle; science has never even provided a clue to justify the existence of consciousness, science has never even provided an idea of what an explanation of the existence of mental experiences might be like. Neurosciences can never provide any valid explanation for the origin of consciousness, as neuroscience does not analyze brain processes at the most fundamental level, but only uses conceptual models that only appoximately describe the underlying physical processes; consciousness is the necessary preliminary condition for the existence of conceptual models, arbitrariness and any approximation; therefore, the hypothesis that neuroscience can explain the existence of consciousness implies a logical fallacy. Brain processes are determined by the laws of quantum physics and any attempt to provide a coherent scientific explanation for the existence of consciousness must be based on quantum physics; however, my arguments prove that the fragmentary nature of brain processes implies that brain processes cannot be a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness. 1 “The brain's ability to integrate information from different processes, known as "binding," is well-documented.” Information is meaning, and meaning exists only as a concept in a conscious mind. This implies that the brain cannot integrate information and that expression refers only to an abstract conceptual model of the brain and not to the physical brain; obviously consciousness is a precondition fir the existence of any conceptual model and therefore such conceptual model cannot be the cause of the existence of consciousness. “Biagini claims that consciousness must involve an indivisible, non-physical element, often referred to as the soul. This view contrasts with the materialist perspective, which holds that consciousness emerges from physical processes in the brain. “ This is not an argument at all; my argument explicitly refutes the materialistic view. “Biagini asserts that emergent properties are subjective constructs and cannot explain consciousness. However, emergent properties are widely recognized in science as real phenomena arising from complex systems (e.g., the wetness of water from hydrogen and oxygen atoms).” This is not an argument at all; my arguments proves that emergent properties are subjective constructs and cannot explain consciousness. For example you can consider wetness: Wetness is not at all a new property compared to the physical properties explicitly described by the fundamental laws of physics, but only an abstraction that refers to several different properties, such as the property of “sticking to objects” or “covering an object”. According to the laws of physics, water is a set of quantum particles and quantum particles can move and interact with other quantum particles; this is not an emergent property, but a fundamental property of quantum particles. The property of "sticking to objects" is simply an arbitrary way of describing the fundamental property of quantum particles to bind to each other, which is due to the attractive property of the electromagnetic interaction. The electromagnetic interaction is the fundamental interaction that determines all molecular processes; it can be both attractive and repulsive, depending on the sign of the charges, and its intensity can vary from zero to infinity, depending on the distance between the charges, which is why we observe very different behaviors at the macroscopic level. The property of "covering an object" is simply an arbitrary way of describing the property of molecules to move in space and occupy different positions. By the way, geometric properties cannot be considered emergent properties since they are intrinsic properties of space itself and space is a fundamental element in the laws of physics. No new properties are involved in wetness; wetness is only an abstract and subjective concept we use to approximately describe the underlying microscopic properties and processes, which are directly and more accurately described by the fundamental laws of physics, without any addictional assumptions and without involving any emergent properties. “ While conceptualizing the brain involves subjective criteria, the brain's physical existence and function are objective and observable. The subjective nature of our descriptions does not negate the objective phenomena they describe.” False; the functions of the brain are not observable at all since they are only abstractions and we can never observe any abstraction “ Biagini acknowledges the correlation between brain processes and consciousness but argues for a non-physical interpreter (the soul) that unifies these processes. This interpretation is not necessary given current scientific understanding. Functional brain imaging shows that specific mental states correlate with specific brain activities, suggesting that the brain's physical processes are sufficient to account for consciousness.” False again: correlation does not mena causation. This argument is a typical example of non sequitur 6 “ The critique of physicalism and emergent properties rests on the claim that emergent properties are merely cognitive constructs. However, physicalism posits that mental phenomena, including consciousness, emerge from brain activity.” This is not an argument at all; It is simply a matter of affirming the fundamental premise of materialism; After all, saying that consciousness emerges is equivalent to saying that consciousness magically appears without any explanation. You should try to think nstead of referring to useless AI.

[@charlesackman892]

Oh please

[@C-o-r-y]

NIKOLA TESLA WAS ELECTROCUTED AND SAW PAST PRESENT & Future at same time, WALTER RUSSELL an American polymath known for his contributions to science, art, and philosophy, had unconventional views on physics, particularly electricity and magnetism. In his writings, he often intertwined scientific concepts with metaphysical ideas. His statement that "electricity is thought and magnetism is knowing" reflects his holistic and philosophical approach to understanding the universe. To break down this statement: Electricity as Thought: Russell believed that the universe is a creation of thought, with electricity playing a key role in the manifestation of matter and energy. In his view, electricity represents the dynamic, creative force of the universe. He saw it as an expression of the thinking process, akin to how thought precedes action in human experience. Magnetism as Knowing: Magnetism, according to Russell, represents the cohesive force that holds things together. It symbolizes stability and the internal knowledge or intelligence that maintains order within the universe. In this context, magnetism is the knowing or understanding that balances and harmonizes the creative energy of electricity.

[@liviolucaci]

Nick tells this in a sense a little bit far from what Federico Faggin (the inventor of the processor and the touchscreen ) But the facts he is talking are very similar so thank you for this content 🙏

[@straightedgerc]

Nick Lane saying, "electricity creates consciousness" is a demonstration of conscious biology (the bioelectricity called Nick Lane), proving he is correct.

[@noneexpert]

consciousness is not something can be created or generated it is the essence Electricity is in consciousness like everything else

[@noneexpert]

and try to f*cking explain what it is first, but you cant you have zero clue all this is just propaganda to keep stock rising

[@FrankBurnham]

The trinity of consciousness, maths and physical reality. We can not fully know any of the 3. There is much more we will never know than we ever will.

[@justinlloyd3]

Why not upload the whole video? I gotta vlick a link just to contiue watching? Why?

[@MuhamedAdil-d5x]

It's blick not vlick

[@TomGrubbe]

Agree. The full-length video linked in the description is 30min and this snippet is 15min. Just show the whole thing.

[@straightedgerc]

The conscious self, I, is emergent (first created then supported) by the electrical physics of evaluating text such as "taking space".

[@observerone6727]

There is (must be) a solution to "What is consciousness ?". Two epistemological 'puzzle pieces' are 1) thought is physically made of forces flowing through the brain's neural structures and sub-systems that include loops, comparitors, differencing and summing, and 2) existence is always and exactly now (the duration of every Now is exactly zero). This is why when being in states of flow, the sense of time disappears. Feeling conscious is 'simply' experiencing those changing, merging, and opposing forces in every moment.

[@straightedgerc]

Puzzle piece 1: is falsified by noting without mind over matter, there is no evolutionary benefit to consciousness of how and why you survive, so consciousness is not useful and therefore not inherited. The important subsystems you mention work automatically without needing supervision. Piece 2: we note that people write autobiographies therefore consciousness must be electrical in order to move their hands to write. So, the correct Piece 1 is the electrical field of the earth. Piece 2 then fits.

[@observerone6727]

​@@straightedgercYour reply isn't related at all to the concepts I was talking about. And if consciousness is "the electric field of earth" as you say, then one is not consciousness when out in space, on the moon or Mars ? That's ridiculous.

[@straightedgerc]

@@observerone6727 The electric field where you are, I mean, usually that is the earth. I am pointing out that your two concepts conflict with each other, so one is incorrect. A point in time (piece 2) cannot contain many points in time (piece 1). Therefore, choose the correct piece 1 (the field everywhere not just inside the brain).

[@observerone6727]

​@@straightedgercI didn't say that one point in time contains many time points; that is a contradiction of reality. Puzzle piece 1 is about physical structure that has spacial size, whereas Piece 2 is about how any given Now exists across the whole structure, concurrently. A brain is a state 'machine', albeit of a continuum of forces (thought is made of forces and force fields; I agree with you there). Piece 1 is about the structure of the state machine, and Piece 2 is about how long exact whole states last, which is zero duration in a continuum. Those are completely orthogonal physical facts, why the distinction exists in state machine theory. I'm not sure what dendrites in anyone else's brain would connect Piece 1 with Piece 2, but proper realistic distinctions are required to tease apart our false associations and assumptions.

[@straightedgerc]

@@observerone6727 Try this: Let piece 2 be an exact moment of understanding the correct explanation of consciousness written on paper. Then, piece 1 must be the bioelectrical mechanics of understanding the correct explanation of consciousness written on paper. What is written on the paper? Electricity field equations, not complex dendrite schematics.

[@straightedgerc]

Which equations explain the "cause and effect" process of awareness of the physical universe? Maxwell's equations. Proof: Maxwell's equations exist on paper in the brief moment called "now" and since they govern the cause-and-effect process of looking at the equations briefly, while looking at the equations you are briefly looking directly at the cause-and-effect electrical mechanism of consciousness. Proving by visual inspection that consciousness is electricity.

[@straightedgerc]

If "I think, therefore I am" is a true statement, then "I think I am" is a true statement.

[@lextej.proton]

“Consciousness is the electric expression of Awareness.”-Jetxel

[@percubit10]

This is very true. it;s about awarness and the biofield.

[@wanfuse]

don't know about consciousness, but here are 30 areas where xenons two properties your point out would be helpful Here are 30 areas where the effects of xenon on oxygen polarization and its inert properties could be useful: Graphene Manufacturing: Preventing oxygen-related defects during synthesis. Semiconductor Fabrication: Creating oxygen-free environments for cleaner semiconductor surfaces. Medical Imaging: Enhancing MRI and CT scans by providing better contrast and imaging capabilities. Corrosion Prevention: Reducing oxygen exposure to prevent metal oxidation and degradation. Chemical Synthesis: Preventing unwanted oxygen interactions in sensitive chemical reactions. Pharmaceutical Production: Maintaining purity by avoiding oxygen contamination in drug synthesis. Battery Manufacturing: Protecting battery materials from oxidative damage during production. Fuel Cell Development: Improving the performance of fuel cells by minimizing oxygen-related side reactions. Aerospace Engineering: Reducing oxygen exposure to prevent material fatigue and corrosion in aircraft and spacecraft. 3D Printing: Enhancing the quality of 3D-printed materials by preventing oxygen-induced defects. Optical Fiber Production: Preventing oxidation of materials used in optical fibers. Nanomaterial Synthesis: Maintaining high purity and preventing oxygen-induced defects in nanomaterials. Plasma Etching: Using xenon in plasma etching processes to create precise and clean surfaces. Cryogenics: Protecting cryogenic materials from oxidation and maintaining their properties. Food Preservation: Using xenon atmospheres to extend the shelf life of oxygen-sensitive foods. Biosensors: Enhancing the stability and performance of biosensors by preventing oxidation. Catalyst Preparation: Preventing the oxidation of catalysts to maintain their activity and longevity. Electronics Manufacturing: Creating oxygen-free environments for the assembly of sensitive electronic components. Paint and Coating Production: Preventing oxidation during the production of paints and coatings. Fiber Optics: Protecting fiber optic materials from oxidative damage during production and use. Photovoltaic Cells: Improving the efficiency of solar cells by preventing oxygen-related degradation. Polymers and Plastics: Reducing oxidative degradation during polymer and plastic manufacturing. Adhesive Production: Ensuring the stability and performance of adhesives by minimizing oxygen exposure. Advanced Ceramics: Maintaining the integrity of ceramics by preventing oxidation during production. Biomedical Devices: Protecting sensitive biomedical devices from oxidative damage. Laser Technology: Enhancing the performance of laser components by preventing oxidation. Environmental Monitoring: Using xenon in sensors to prevent oxidative interference. Lubricant Production: Preventing oxidation of lubricants to maintain their performance and longevity. Nuclear Reactor Maintenance: Using xenon atmospheres to reduce oxidation of reactor components. Water Treatment: Protecting materials used in water treatment systems from oxidative damage. These areas highlight the broad potential applications of xenon's inert properties and its ability to influence oxygen polarization, enhancing performance, stability, and quality in various scientific and engineering fields.

[@straightedgerc]

Who writes your posts, is what creates your posts, is moving your hands with electricity. Who writes your posts, is what creates your posts, is consciousness. Therefore, electricity creates consciousness, otherwise undiscovered physics moves electricity which moves your hands to write. A group of people talking about "what creates consciousness" is an example of bioelectricity, an example of machines. A group of people talking about "what creates consciousness" is a demonstration of consciousness. Therefore, consciousness is reducible to a demonstration of electrical physics, but consciousness is not reducible to the brain.

[@davidetomsu]

Thank you. Electricity may be a way for consciousness to come into form, yes. What saddens me greatly, is that there's still so called intelligent people who would think that a fox is not self aware, and that it wouldn't feel pain through the same electrical impulses that we as humans experience in our own animal bodies.

[@The_Unexplainer]

One huge ad. Well played.

[@alexandramcleod2079]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing

[@straightedgerc]

A biologist calling themselves "I", and the author of an autobiography calling themselves "I", and someone who says "I am standing up and taking a walk" are examples of consciousness itself. They are also demonstrations and creations of bioelectricity.

[@IOSALive]

The Institute of Art and Ideas, You're so talented! I had to hit the like button!

[@TheVeganVicar]

A talented institute?

[@straightedgerc]

If a group of people evaluating chocolate is an example of consciousness itself, and a group of people evaluating chocolate is a demonstration of bioelectricity, then tasting chocolate is electricity. Consciousness is a demonstration of electricity.

[@rhyothemisprinceps1617]

So frustrating that the rest of the talk requires sign up for a 'free trial' (which often becomes a paid trial due to difficulties in unsubscribing).

[@siqueirabarros]

Don't worry. You won't miss a thing. His theory of consciousness is just as void as all the others. Priceless and mightily honorable efforts, surely. But feeble and crippled results.

[@redsed1565]

@@siqueirabarros spot on! More BS about BS to make some $$$$

[@javierblanco7467]

Consciousness is soluble in chloroform or ether. Wonderful.

[@straightedgerc]

The internal world is a subset of the external world by their definitions, and since both are ideas the external fits inside the internal. Therefore, they are the same world.

[@rafaelgonzalez4175]

In the construct of thinking consciuosness is converting sences into information remembered. The eyes see, consciousness then converts the visual information into memory or associates the sight with a past memory. At the same exact instant, consciuosness is converting the sounds you here into stored information, or associating the sound with a stored frequency. Consciousness performs energy conversion. Life grows. Consciousness creates sub-conciousness. The very reason artificial intelligence is being researched currently.

[@MichaelJ-rt1xb]

Consciousness creates electromagnetic energy which we non physical beings use to create physical reality.

[@straightedgerc]

A biologist is a demonstration of conscious bioelectricity immersed in an electrical ecosystem. Therefore, consciousness is a demonstration of electricity.

[@DustyHankewich]

I will explain and program consciousness after the proper human factor homework is completed

[@johngrundowski3632]

Incredible ; THANKS for the update

[@redsed1565]

when he said "i donk know" he should have stopped there!

[@parmeswor1089]

Laxuman Bhai ramro manche bhaneko ta zadaya ra tuakee po rahecha … Hait 😂 any way ramro lagyo. Everyone keep it up you guys doing awesome ✨ ✌️👍

[@AtommHD]

Consciousness creates electricity. For the world cannot exists with Consciousness but Consciousness can exist without the world

[@slangster233]

even a fly struggles not to die fights for its freedom she's glad to be alive even as a fly

[@BooleanDisorder]

Did you ask the fly why it "struggles to not die"? The reasons lies in the observer.

[@deathstroke7394]

​@@BooleanDisorder you can't take the observer out of the observation

[@deathstroke7394]

even a fly, seems to avoid death, or at least it seems, when we compare its to the elusive "I"

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

Dominion (2018)

[@straightedgerc]

The laws of electricity (Maxwell's equations) have never been violated in the real world, so Maxwell's conscious discovery of the laws of electricity did not violate those laws. Hence, electricity discovered electricity on its own without Maxwell's help. Therefore, consciousness is not a useful trait of each brain but is the self-discovery of earth's electrical field.

[@Illumignostic]

close... our consciousness comes from light. as Aleister Crowley said 150 years ago "Science is always rediscovering old scraps of magickal wisdom, and making a great fuss about it's cleverness."

[@bill29-g3b]

Read the classic book "The Body Electric" if you're interested in this sublect.

[@overunityinventor]

after talking to gemini and chat gpt, i got more confused about what consciousness actually is?

[@quixodian]

Life is the manifestation of subjecthood.

[@maconcamp472]

The Big Bang Theory!! 🐘 🐾 🥁 Each thought represents a bang❗️Higher vibrational thoughts 🐝🐝🐝 will create bigger bangs‼️ Pebbles And Bam Bam!! 🧊 🦕 🧊 🦖 🧊 🦣 🧊 Each grain of sand or pebble, a building block for planets or dark matter!! 🪨 Dark energy aka consciousness, creates the bang!! Supernovae!! 💥 Super Moons!! Flowery moons!! 🌹 Saturn a flowery moon!! Representing the 6th dimension!! More energy!!🪐 🛸 We control it!! 🧞 We’re stars!!✨ Hi, Hey, Hello!!🦜 The more G’s, the better!! They’ll reflect our minds, technology, and more!! G strings!! 👙 👙👙👙 Our brains look like gum!! 🧠 Juicier the better!!!🍏🍋‍🟩🫐🍍🍎🍌🍈🥥🍐🍉🍒🥝🍊🍇🍑🍋🍓🥭 Love everything until it loves you back!! Mosquitos too!!🦟 ❤ Each of us and each galaxy would represent a cell!! 🦠 We’re stars putting ourselves back together again!! Like Humpty Dumpty!! 🥚 🐓 The sky is blue because we’re meant to imagine it as a diamond!! The auroras then create the rest of the spectrum!! 🌈 💎 A purple sky would reflect the heart of the ocean!! An opened mind!! 🤯 The earth purring more!! Purrrrrple rain!!☔️ 🐈‍⬛ 🧶 Each thought to me is a solar flare, which shifts us into parallel worlds!! It’s hard here!!! I’m a peaceful dude, yet my life here has been super difficult!!🥹 Alpha Centauri represents a shift in consciousness!! Dog planet!! We’re riding the alpha waves!! Woof woof!!🐶 🐾 This is our world peace and enlightenment for the world and universe!! All is one!!😇🥳🥰🤩 We’re each a mini universe!!🌌 The 3 Body Problem represents our gut brain, 🍱 heart,❤️ and mind!! 🧠 The moon is a black hole!! 🕳️ A neutrino!! The planet is a colonized moon!!😇🌍👽 The sun is a shapeshifter!! 🌞 Are you and I sculpting together as a team or as individuals??? 🧑‍🎨 Using the moon as a tool!!! 🪨 The Sun is the eye!!👁️ I love the tool/word grinder!!!😮 We’d be Bumping and Grinding!!😂 The Earth is like a refrigerator and the atmospheric pressure is melting or defrosting the stars above, as if they’ve been in the freezer!! 🥶 It would also reflect us krystalyzing and becoming diamonds in the sky!! 💎 💎💎 Lucy becomes Maisie!! 🐒 👽 We could be stars from above aka heaven, melting everything from above, as well! Like a River Running Through It!!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Gravitational waves or our thoughts raining down on us!! 🌧️ Unlocking a Secret Garden within and outside of us!!🤫 An Oasis!!!🏝️ 🏝️🏝️🏝️🏝️ Flowing!!! It helps a lot to flow!!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Letting go, so we can concentrate more and work on our project!! Heaven On Earth!!🌍 👼 Flowers!! 🌺 🌸 💐 and Flow-Ers!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 I know energy is still impurrtant!! 😻 And of course imagination!!! Love!!!💗 🐶 🎾 🧶 🐈‍⬛ To create heaven On Earth, the galaxies collide!! 🌌 Twin flames connect!! 🔥 🔥 We’re creating quantum entanglement!! Ghost particles merging, becoming more like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 The universe is still the Earth!!⭐️🌍⭐️ We’re seeing it from the insides!! 🕵️ Like we’re inside a volcano 🌋 or wishing well!! The stars and galaxies are like coins!!🪙 The Goonies vibes!! 💀 We’re treasure!! Antarctica is treasure island!! 🐧🇦🇶 Unlocking antimatter!! 🐜 Booby and booty traps exposed!! Planet X!! Hubba Hubba!!🥰 Everything and everyone has been our teacher!!👩‍🏫 3D is like the murky bottom of a bong or volcano!!🌋 The fourth dimension, representing Mars is like the stem of the bong or the volcanos vent!! 👽 Experiencing higher dimensions is like the smoke or magma reaching our mouths 😋 and then circulating through our bodies!! We are the Earth!!🌍 👼 The road less traveled!!!🧳 🌹 Straight up!! 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈We’d be super condensed or extremely packed neutron stars!! Like Rigel!! Blueberries!! Antioxidants!! Betelgeuse has evolved into a neutron star!! 🍊🫐 Our long winding road, exploring different dimensions, finally straightening out!! I’m getting Pee Wee vibes!! Large Marge sent me!!🚴😂 We’re vaporized, as if we’ve been smoked or roasted!! 💨 The smoke representing again those compressed neutron stars climbing the higher dimensions of the universe like a chimney!! I’m Mary Poppins, y’all !! ☂️ 🧞‍♀️ It would also represent us as a comet traveling through a wormhole!! 💫 Who me, I’m just a worm!!🐛 🫖 Solving a labyrinth!! 🦉 Solving amaze!!! 🦋 Different energies tell a different story!! 📚 We’re storytellers!! Artists!!🧑‍🎨 We’re energy first!! 🐝 A 12 inch boner is like receiving a foot of snow!!⛄️ 😂 When powered by neutrons and a magnetar energy field, one is like the energizer bunny!!🐰 They’ll keep going and going and going!! 🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇 If you’re destined to have more than one twin flame, you’re like Frogger, playing leap frog!! Lucy is a sucker for Lillies!! 🐸 🍀 🐸 🍀 🐸🍀🐸🍀🐸 G Force!!!🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳 Purrthquakes instead of Earthquakes!! 😻

[@helicalactual]

Life is defined as a system with intentful effect/affect. This can include energy conservation. The dynamic stasis of reacting to the environment with intent is still living.

[@arosalesmusic]

There is a field of Consciousness, it is fundamental, it does not spring forth from electricity, Just like an electron field creates electrons when it is excited, ripples in the Conscious field creates perceptions. It is not self aware, but biology is a dissociation from the Conscious field.

[@CharlesSpencer-t5f]

God consciousness is the source of everything!!!

[@vin9235]

In what moment does he say what the title claims? He just said that some chemicals puts some microorganisms to "sleep"

[@hadleymanmusic]

you recieve your thoughts

[@observerone6727]

Are you still wearing your tin foil hat ? 😅

[@TheCjbowman]

Seems to me that consciousness is fundamental. A feature of advanced consciousness is self awareness, and we conflate the two. It's certainly not an emergent phenomenon.

[@justjaay1203]

I believe it to be the inverse self awareness leads to consciousness. That's why you don't recall your early years until you become self aware and the world is projected from consciousness. Before self awareness there is nothing just a black void.

[@straightedgerc]

"X itself" is when "therefore X exists" is a true statement. So, consciousness itself is when "therefore I am" is a true statement.

[@hawklord100]

Exactly, all consciousness is electrical, the earth is electrical, the universe is electrical and so are all living things

[@johncollins211]

Im not sure if he's going full blown electrical universe theory.

[@hawklord100]

@@johncollins211 afraid to use the common sense of stictching together all the studies

[@romanieo]

Tough Crowd Nick. But keep going.

[@straightedgerc]

Biology already explains consciousness as electricity. Proof: a biologist can say, "I am a demonstration of conscious biology".

[@peterbroderson6080]

Electricity is a product of consciousness The moment a particle is a wave; it has to be a conscious wave! Nicola Tesla states, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration” Gravity is the conscious attraction among waves to create the illusion of particles, and creates 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!

[@ralpssss]

Which capacitor understands & dances to the voltage-dependent music going through it?

[@JohnKennedy-ho4jq]

I would like to see him on The Joe Rogan Experience.

[@joehergert2434]

It’s so simple, yet our senses deceive. Consciousness is cause. Motion is effect (magnetism/electricity moving simultaneously in opposite directions)

[@straightedgerc]

Let "reality" be that life is nothing more than unconscious falling rock, an avalanche that began when earth formed into a sphere. If published biologists are each not conscious being nothing more than falling rock, but their books explain that biochemical sensors are how each biologist is "conscious", then a copy of conscious biologists exists in the falling rock of reality.

[@DustyHankewich]

Even a blade of grass has a sense of aweness and will bend towards the sunlight when it feels it