Where Does Consciousness Come From? | Unveiled

[@unveiled]

The human brain is pretty amazing, right? Let us know which questions you'd like us to answer next!

[@matthewuchiha8501]

How about a nonstressful topic.

[@brianwilliams9813]

How about what if Jesus Christ walked the earth one more time

[@m0j0e97]

How could someone prove the afterlife is real?

[@MrAndrew535]

Humans have not yet experienced consciousness and in all likelihood won't. Human behaviour does not require consciousness to follow predictable patterns which they invariably do. Consciousness is a departure from that predictability a feature of which is originality.

[@themaskedwhitekid892]

I want to know of God made us how do we have a soul and can we know

[@SocksWithSandals]

It's ironic that the one thing we always continually experience is the same phenomenon we cannot explain or duplicate or locate The hard problem of consciousness.

[@blackscreennoiseforrelaxat1517]

Dang I never looked at it like that.

[@BeachBumZero]

Consciousness is the very act of being. It is reality realized. Now that we are uncovering the very makeup of reality in quantum physics we are finding that materialism is an illusion and the essence of everything is actually consciousness. In a nutshell, consciousness creates the physical world, not the other way around. We have this ability to a limited degree, but most of the physical world has been created by a much larger "mind" that seems to be in and throughout everything.

[@krisc6216]

@@BeachBumZero You can't separate the 'larger' mind from your essence. If it seems to be in and throughout everyting, it is also in and troughout you, it is you. The separateness we experience is an illusion. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. You can't be anything less than the energy that drives this universe. Even Einstein said: "reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one"

[@noonesherem8782]

@@krisc6216 no, einstein was talking about time, not reality

[@Luis-zl5cg]

I wonder if the world exists if there is no sentient life

[@howtodoit4204]

Your brain itself doesn’t know it exist but you know it exist

[@howtodoit4204]

@ayushlacu o your brain itself is just nuerons firing its gonna become nothing

[@all-in9365]

@@howtodoit4204 ur brain is u moron

[@808sscy4]

@@all-in9365 LMFAOOO

[@Kojak.k]

@@all-in9365 Your brain is just chemicals, conscious is different.

[@all-in9365]

@@Kojak.k ur brain is u, ur conciousness stems from ur brain, are u people dumb or something??

[@4444-z3e]

This actually made me think about something. If your entire body was destroyed and then perfectly replicated, would your consciousness "transfer over", or would you simply be gone and have a being which thinks it's you?

[@kawosdhdos]

i think you would be gone because although it is a perfect replica, it is in a different space and position in universe, which differentiates it from being the original. The original you, or just you, (since this is from the perspective of the original), would be gone.

[@Elijah_Everett]

@@kawosdhdos what difference does it make where something is located in regards to the question whether it's still the same thing?

[@kawosdhdos]

​@@Elijah_Everett because it's not exactly the same thing. The location changes it. If i have an apple in my right hand, and an apple in my left hand, are those 2 apples the same apples? No. They are both apples, but they are in a different location in space, which is what separates/ differentiates them from each other. they are different objects in space

[@Elijah_Everett]

@@kawosdhdos if you ship a bag of rice from china to russia, is it still the same bag of rice?

[@kawosdhdos]

@@Elijah_Everett Not sure. On a physical level perceivable to humans, I would say yes. On a molecular level it did change however the compounds are the same. But it didnt change enough to the point where the shape and properties of the bag of rice would change. It is still continually held together as it moves across space, so again I would say 1 object It has changed but determining whether it is the same bag or not is up to human subjective classification. For efficiency I would say yes. Also, answer my question.

[@MrCool-vu1nr]

This is just what I needed at 2am lol

[@HyProDuxy]

4 am here

[@jaimdiojtar]

2:43am here XD

[@commodusgenesis4759]

1:30 am

[@waltuh7112]

Go to sleep , get some rest

[@bella_x7775]

it’s 2 rn bruh

[@DilshodOlimov1]

Consciousness learning itself.

[@andrewryan824]

isnt it weird that the brain is trying to figure itself out haha

[@Q_reezy]

Why don’t you believe in Christianity

[@yourmoms_sidepiece]

😂

[@kaelhume7028]

@@Q_reezy cuz it’s a Fucking joke you knob

[@juju_gie]

The brain isn’t you. Your consciousness is you.

[@angelduenas]

@@juju_gie I am my Brain so are u

[@dylanburns3290]

Its incredible how far the human body will go to preserve itself. Why do we as a living creature fight so hard to survive and adapt. Is the living conciousness running from something we cant percieve? Is death just a tribulation conciousness has to undergo in order to learn and adapt, so the new host preserves waking conciousness for longer? These are the questions I want to know. P.s. I'm really high, but this just makes so much sense to me.

[@MemeRaider]

Since the chance of your birth is in the billions, your mind from nature is probably wired to keep your living as long as possible since your never going to live again.

[@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0]

Not just the human body, but all life as we know it. It's as if some thing unspeakably terrifying lurks beyond the realm of death that motivates creatures to keep living for as long as possible. Some real cosmic horror type shit.

[@m0j0e97]

High af watching this video 🤯😭

[@dhgfhhhghhj]

Sober af whatching this

[@vigilantekato]

🤣🤣

[@Propermarkhunt]

@@dhgfhhhghhj shame smoking and watching stuff like this is awesome.

[@SwayTrades]

on god my nigga🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@seth3460]

Same pinch

[@dennistucker1153]

I'm a computer programmer. This give me a unique insight into the nature of consciousness. To me, consciousness is a very simple thing to understand. In my opinion, consciousness is an elementary process in the brain that always tries to resolve 2 questions. 1) What is going on? This is analogous to input(s). 2) What should I do? This is analogous to output(s). There are sub-processes in each stage but the sequence of these questions(stages) repeat continuously all the time while we live. Consciousness also continues while we sleep. The biggest difference between awake and sleeping is that the brain is deprived of most of our senses and the loop time of these two stages is much longer. On the first question "What is going on?", our brains try to make sense of all the available senses(touch, taste, etc.). The brain also uses it's memories and it's reasoning in this stage. On the second question "What should I do?", our brains try to form a response to the first question. One of the main sub-questions to be resolved in this stage is "what is most important at this time". A decision is made like rest or run or talk about something.

[@qincong5615]

If consciousness is a elementary process. Then, if there is a your colone man which means he has a same brain as you, will you have same consciousness with him, or what happen to your consciousnesses?

[@dennistucker1153]

@@qincong5615 I don't know what "a your colone man" is. If you are referring to a CLONE, then the processes are the same but their life experiences and memories would be different. They may look identical but they would would feel and act like independent individuals.

[@jenlattana]

Dennis Tucker where does it go when we are under anesthesia?

[@dennistucker1153]

@@jenlattana I have dreams when I sleep. On many occasions while I'm dreaming, I become aware that I am in a dream. This can be fun for me because at that point I am able to control much of my dream content. So even while I was sleeping I had some conscious awareness. To me, this indicates that our consciousness exists even while sleeping. To answer your question...in normal functioning brains, consciousness(the process I talked about) is always going while we are awake, while we are sleeping, while we are under anesthesia and possibly while we are in a comma. Our consciousness is always going. I believe that while we sleep or under anesthesia, this process is deprived of many resources including most of our 5 senses(some small portion remains). We are also deprived of access to reasoning & memory. I also believe that this process slows down significantly while we sleep or under anesthesia.

[@rev2441]

"1) What is going on? This is analogous to input(s). 2) What should I do? " - A snail does this too, the difference is that we're conscious about that we're doing it... which is the very thing we're trying to figure out. This therefore doesn't really add anything.

[@birdman7135]

Anytime I hear "We're closer than ever to understanding (fill in the blank)" I instantly know that we're nowhere close to understanding (fill in the blank).

[@KrunkCobain]

We are closer than ever because this is the peak of understand lifetimes of research. Change your attitude we'll get there someday.

[@birdman7135]

Krunk Cobain - Discovery is not dependent on attitude and feelings. It’s based on “facts.” Right now the “fact” is that we are just as far away from understanding (fill in the blank) today as we were yesterday. This pattern will continue to be a fact until an understanding is ultimately reached. The only thing attaching superstitious emotions to science gets you is one step closer to the way Theists think.

[@martam4142]

@@KrunkCobain Haha! Shut up.

[@martam4142]

@@birdman7135 Well said.

[@marcobiagini1878]

I am a physicist and I will provide solid arguments that prove that consciousness cannot be generated by the brain (in my youtube channel you can find a video with more detailed explanations). Many argue that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain, but it is possible to show that such hypothesis is inconsistent with our scientific knowledges. In fact, it is possible to show that all the examples of emergent properties consists of concepts used to describe how an external object appear to our conscious mind, and not how it is in itself, which means how the object is independently from our observation. In other words, emergent properties are ideas conceived to describe or classify, according to arbitrary criteria and from an arbitrary point of view, certain processes or systems. In summary, emergent properties are intrinsically subjective, since they are based on the arbitrary choice to focus on certain aspects of a system and neglet other aspects, such as microscopic structures and processes; emergent properties consist of ideas through which we describe how the external reality appears to our conscious mind: without a conscious mind, these ideas (= emergent properties) would not exist at all. Here comes my first argument: arbitrariness, subjectivity, classifications and approximate descriptions, imply the existence of a conscious mind, which can arbitrarily choose a specific point of view and focus on certain aspects while neglecting others. It is obvious that consciousness cannot be considered an emergent property of the physical reality, because consciousenss is a preliminary necessary condition for the existence of any emergent property. We have then a logical contradiction. Nothing which presupposes the existence of consciousness can be used to try to explain the existence of consciousness. Here comes my second argument: our scientific knowledge shows that brain processes consist of sequences of ordinary elementary physical processes; since consciousness is not a property of ordinary elementary physical processes, then a succession of such processes cannot have cosciousness as a property. In fact we can break down the process and analyze it step by step, and in every step consciousness would be absent, so there would never be any consciousness during the entire sequence of elementary processes. It must be also understood that considering a group of elementary processes together as a whole is an arbitrary choice. In fact, according to the laws of physics, any number of elementary processes is totally equivalent. We could consider a group of one hundred elementary processes or ten thousand elementary processes, or any other number; this choice is arbitrary and not reducible to the laws of physics. However, consciousness is a necessary preliminary condition for the existence of arbitrary choices; therefore consciousness cannot be a property of a sequence of elementary processes as a whole, because such sequence as a whole is only an arbitrary and abstract concept that cannot exist independently of a conscious mind. Here comes my third argument: It should also be considered that brain processes consist of billions of sequences of elementary processes that take place in different points of the brain; if we attributed to these processes the property of consciousness, we would have to associate with the brain billions of different consciousnesses, that is billions of minds and personalities, each with its own self-awareness and will; this contradicts our direct experience, that is, our awareness of being a single person who is able to control the voluntary movements of his own body with his own will. If cerebral processes are analyzed taking into account the laws of physics, these processes do not identify any unity; this missing unit is the necessarily non-physical element (precisely because it is missing in the brain), the element that interprets the brain processes and generates a unitary conscious state, that is the human mind. Here comes my forth argument: Consciousness is characterized by the fact that self-awareness is an immediate intuition that cannot be broken down or fragmented into simpler elements. This characteristic of consciousness of presenting itself as a unitary and non-decomposable state, not fragmented into billions of personalities, does not correspond to the quantum description of brain processes, which instead consist of billions of sequences of elementary incoherent quantum processes. When someone claims that consciousness is a property of the brain, they are implicitly considering the brain as a whole, an entity with its own specific properties, other than the properties of the components. From the physical point of view, the brain is not a whole, because its quantum state is not a coherent state, as in the case of entangled systems; the very fact of speaking of "brain" rather than many cells that have different quantum states, is an arbitrary choice. This is an important aspect, because, as I have said, consciousness is a necessary preliminary condition for the existence of arbitrariness. So, if a system can be considered decomposable and considering it as a whole is an arbitrary choice, then it is inconsistent to assume that such a system can have or generate consciousness, since consciousness is a necessary precondition for the existence of any arbitrary choice. In other words, to regard consciousness as a property ofthe brain, we must first define what the brain is, and to do so we must rely only on the laws of physics, without introducing arbitrary notions extraneous to them; if this cannot be done, then it means that every property we attribute to the brain is not reducible to the laws of physics, and therefore such property would be nonphysical. Since the interactions between the quantum particles that make up the brain are ordinary interactions, it is not actually possible to define the brain based solely on the laws of physics. The only way to define the brain is to arbitrarily establish that a certain number of particles belong to it and others do not belong to it, but such arbitrariness is not admissible. In fact, the brain is not physically separated from the other organs of the body, with which it interacts, nor is it physically isolated from the external environment, just as it is not isolated from other brains, since we can communicate with other people, and to do so we use physical means, for example acoustic waves or electromagnetic waves (light). This necessary arbitrariness in defining what the brain is, is sufficient to demonstrate that consciousness is not reducible to the laws of physics. Besides, since the brain is an arbitrary concept, and consciousness is the necessary preliminary condition for the existence of arbitrariness, consciousness cannot be a property of the brain. Based on these considerations, we can exclude that consciousness is generated by brain processes or is an emergent property of the brain. Marco Biagini

[@urblack7954]

Bad agrument. 👎 not enough details. I win automatically. Im just kidding

[@urblack7954]

Im just kidding. I checked out your video very good explanation and very good explanation in this comment to. 👏 nice job !

[@WordTourist]

@@urblack7954 haha😆

[@barryrobertson7064]

Consciousness is the energy of existence, It is the energy that became aware of its own existence, That experienced its own evolutionary experiance of existence. The one conscious experience of existence came to the realisation and understanding that it needed to continue to evolve and grow. That's when it became the creator, That's how it became the universe.

[@SuperManning11]

Lovely thought, and accords with the idea of consciousness likely being an evolutionary adaptation as a natural outcome of the development of the brain; I believe poetry such as yours certainly has a place at the table when we start positing answers to the hard problem at hand. Really beautifully written--I keep rereading it, quite beautiful...and it leaves many openings for scientific explanations to step in without taking away from the process of becoming that you have so eloquently outlined.

[@barryrobertson7064]

@@SuperManning11 thank you.

[@SuperManning11]

@@j2futures500 I wholeheartedly concur! I have spent much time and brainpower attempting to imagine what it must be like to be any other creature in the universe. While we as humans indeed possess the unique ability to create symbolic expressions of our thoughts and ideas, there must be other forms of intelligence that create their own kind of consciousness that in turn produce different sensory experiences and react to different motivational stimuli according to their needs in their environment. /sorry for the sloppy run-on sentence...it's very late...

[@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385]

U know what everything is energy bruh😅

[@karthiksatheesh6708]

Yeah no.

[@PiyushUnnithan]

I'm sorry. This channel's notion about knowledge about consciousness being as old as the Greek culture and philosophy is absolutely incorrect. Indian culture and philosophy had talked about it for thousands and thousands of years. In fact, one of the most basic pillars of the Indian religion is consciousness. Please get your facts correct.

[@saniyagamer-xd2oq]

Right आपने बिल्कुल सही कहा है

[@playahship5786]

Consciousness is the observer. Now where is the observer looking from? What is the observer... what kind of substance is consciousness...... So much to look for

[@MadanSingh-rk3hg]

Conciseness creates reality For reality to exist bcoz of us there should be the case for us to change reality as we please but we can't so There must a true conscious for it to make into existence in his reality That my friend is a god

[@NHC859]

Madan Singh 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤯

[@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385]

We r all God's go wathc the egg by kursgesagt

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Millions of years of evolution helped us develop this ability

[@naveedahamed5589]

There's nothing called as an Evolution. It's just an theory which is not proven Scientifically. It may sounds good on Paper but not in Reality

[@shbarry2233]

this guy is fucking everywhere i swear

[@BosmanHa]

Theoretically.

[@Jaryism]

I love how we jump right to “if we can make robots conscious..” without ever asking if that’s a smart idea

[@andrewfreiji4647]

While I do not know the answer, here is a thought. The mind-body problems problem is whether consciousness resides in the physical brain or it is some non physical state that the brain accesses. I think the answer is both. We are made of matter and energy. Our brain is made of a configuration of materials, that chemically interact with each other in extremely complex ways. These interactions are what scientists usually observe and see as a correlation to experience. For example, elevated levels of dopamine, a compound of different chemicals (physical) equates to greater feelings of pleasure in our experience. It is these correlations that psychiatric drugs are based on, since changing the chemical balance in your brain would cause a requisite qualitative change in your experience. If chemicals you can find in inanimate objects brings about such qualitative experiences in us when configured a certain way, then the substrate for qualitative experience must be inherent to that matter. Also, all the matter in our bodies gets replaced by new material, hence why we eat, which came ultimately from inanimate sources but gives us conscious, qualitative experience. I think it is possible that all our experiences are indirectly tied togethe r to form a whole. Since we each have this conscious experience, and I would argue that entire communities think unconsciously and respond on a large scale to events like an individual does, that the universe is a conscious being composed of conscious beings. Our brains consciousness spans across our mind likely with no centrality. Every point where consciousness exists in our mind is the center, just like everywhere in the universe is the center of the unverse. I think that we as individuals might very well be neurons in the mind of god. But like individual neurons or points of conscioussness input brain, we do not know that, and we perceive the rest of the universe as being around us.

[@elmaxlife]

That thought is very deep

[@theeyeofday]

Love “every point where consciousness exists in our mind is the center, just like everywhere in the universe is the center of the universe”.

[@jellymop]

Chinese room thought experiment. That may have swayed me toward the direction that synthetic intelligence cannot have consciousness. That is very persuasive

[@schnitzelfilmmaker1130]

I forgot who said it, but someone said that he will know that a robot just told the truth, but the robot might not.

[@ChrisJohnsonHome]

The Chinese room thought experiment is interesting ... But it sounds more like a process, like our automatic habits of walking or breathing which aren't normally conscious either. A lot of what we do each day is unconscious. The Chinese thought experiment doesn't require human-like consciousness because it doesn't need to simulate a subjective self, it doesn't need to process visual information, it doesn't need to bind visual signals with touch, taste, smell, proprioception, thermoception, audio signals, etc. It also doesn't need to vectorize qualia, it doesn't need a percept of time passing, it doesn't need any attentional processes, it doesn't need a 3D stage to plan out its behavior, nor does it need to update its representation of its environment multiple times per second to do its job. I think we are all tempted to want simple answers for consciousness and assume it is some kind of magical spiritual quantum field or something, but that wouldn't make sense at all, since a magical field wouldn't allow us to talk about it without some type of physical interaction with an input and output ... Which brings us back to physical systems capable of inputs and outputs. It's obvious to me that consciousness is a representational system. This is why it doesn't "seem" physical. To succeed at life we needed to store our experiences in long term memory, we needed to think and talk about our experiences, we needed to analyze our experiences, we needed to plan our actions, and we needed to enjoy our experiences in meaningful ways (motivation to thrive and live!) ... So we evolved a way to do this: represent our life as conscious experiences.

[@jellymop]

@@ChrisJohnsonHome very interesting and thought provoking. Another angle to look at it. So then the subconscious would be a representation of a representational system? Lol

[@Sambouajram11]

My problem with the Chinese room thought experiment is that it assumes it’s even possible to create a room that can respond to every question with an answer that registers as human. If you ask a human a question they’ve never heard before, they can still (most the time) give you some kind of coherent answer. Whereas if you handed the English speaker a question in Chinese that the rule book doesn’t ALREADY have written down, it fails. And since there are an infinite number of questions you can ask, the “Chinese room” would never be able to replicate human consciousness. Whereas the human brain is can handle an infinite variety of questions within the confines of your skull.

[@simonrodgers2375]

If consciousness is 'in another realm' that'd suggest that it potentially survives after the body dies.

[@DudewithaGoodMood]

Maybe consciousness is the soul/spirit

[@dieglhix]

Yes, logiccally, reincarnation is actually a possibility. But not necessarily same animal or planet.

[@joeclark105]

but what if your body is the vessel for your conciousness when it stops working/dies then your connection is severed.

[@dieglhix]

@@joeclark105 The soul could be metaphysical so maybe it doesn't dissapears from all existence

[@Waltyworld]

That would be awesome

[@yevabarsegyan5753]

You know how we have ears? And our ears pick up noise and if our ears don’t work then we can’t hear noise, but that doesn’t mean the noise doesn’t exist right? Same with our brains, if our brains die doesn’t mean our consciousness does.

[@iiCounted-op5jx]

hold up I'm confused asf, aren't those two completely different comparisons/scenarios that have nothing to do with each other?

[@kentheengineer592]

Where Does General Existence Come From ? As In It Comes From a Place

[@nakinajay]

What if the universe is our consciousness and depending on how many receptors we have in our brains determines how much consciousness we can receive determining our personality and level of intelligence ? I know “ smoke another one “ right?

[@thomasewing2656]

Thank God for God, or we wouldn't have a place to put all this unknown stuff! lol

[@blackscreennoiseforrelaxat1517]

Fucking brilliant lol.

[@alexcj7350]

@Night Lock soul is consciousness

[@yesyoucan7877]

@@alexcj7350 literally

[@HolyRickstar]

Pineal gland is where DMT is produced so is not that far fetched

[@ramsesrameez5430]

Wow but why the don't teach us in school and collages and even they don't teach in university and other institute.

[@brett8074]

Scientists can’t figure out what allows you to figure out things. Trying to understand consciousness will always have them going in circles. Trying to figure it out is like trying to go faster than the speed of light.

[@KrunkCobain]

It might seem that way but with more research we'll figure it out 🤝

[@brett8074]

Krunk Cobain you cant, God wont allow it

[@brett8074]

Consciousness is the gift of human life, we are given something that is sacred... science can’t prove what allows us to be aware of this universe

[@martam4142]

@@KrunkCobain Or not.

[@noelkinz]

Consciousness is the interaction between space & time. You are the space that you occupied with your body but you are also the body that you occupied in space.

[@sneakyoxen2716]

For all we know consciousness might be another force of nature (like gravity) that got mixed in with matter. One thing is for sure, there is a difference between living things and inanimate objects (both are made of matter) and that living things all posses some sort of consciousness. I wish science could tell us this sooner, because its one of the more interesting big questions out there.

[@DudewithaGoodMood]

You're talking about samkhya darshan

[@Lone_Star86]

Consciousness is an inevitable part of the universe. It blooms in life same as a flower would bloom.

[@Imthebiggestbird124]

This made me think of something I thought about recently. You know how scientists have started “cloning” peoples pets? If a scientist were to “clone” me, let’s say for example, after I die, would my consciousness transfer to the “new” me?

[@MemeRaider]

Well if we cloned you while your where alive, would you be conscious in two life forms at the same time?

[@blanketjackson8075]

No, the clone would just be like an identical twin, regardless if you are still around.

[@iiCounted-op5jx]

bruh ofc not lol

[@TheDiecastFanatic]

I guess not But if you could transfer ur actually brain into another body then yea

[@KaapoKallio]

No, unless the scientists had some way to move your mind-state to the clone body.

[@meighagen4419]

Where does consciousness come from? An accumulation of successful observations accumulated through the generations. Consciousness evolve through countless lives

[@SocksWithSandals]

"By a billion lives and a billion deaths we have earned the right to be here" - H.G.Wells

[@MrCool-vu1nr]

So what u r saying is consiouness is an emergent propety nah it isn't because I think the brain is the emergent property of consciousness I mean if u not awere of something it simply doesnt exists like if u dream u cannot know if u r dreaming until u learn to so the brain just cannot learn to be awere of itself that could be nonsene.

[@aliens566]

But why does it happen to be in your body? What decided that your consciousness would be within your body of all things?

[@spontaneouscat6791]

well it sez that consciousness is the driving force of matter you are consciousness first before you become physical infants as early as 7 mos said to have consciousness and it developed thru experience as they grow older

[@Propermarkhunt]

I've always thought you can see consciousness in the eyes and that makes me think fish and bugs maybe don't but the majority of living things do I don't know about plants though.

[@Propermarkhunt]

@@j2futures500 I'll definitley have a look! Thanks

[@chrisjordan1612]

You're confusing concioisness with signs of general life. They go hand in hand essentially, but.youre definitely on the right track.....ish.

[@Georgemked]

Consciousness is basically the source of it all, you're just tied to it through a small portion that resides in you basically and yea, some call it God, and other religions have different names for it however, it is what drives and shapes your life. Once you learn to control it, you become a master at manifesting your reality.

[@rickharold7884]

Nice summary thx !

[@saidul02]

consciousness is the operating system our brain runs. and it needs all the necessary hardware.

[@hawaiiman33]

xvc00 everything that we are; consciousness included comes directly from our inner being which resides within the center of our chest, circulating around our heart. Everything beyond that works as a unit in order to live in a physical plain.

[@tyamada21]

The Law myoho-renge-kyo represents the identity of what some scientists refer to as the ‘unified field of all consciousnesses’. In other words, it’s a sound vibration that is the essence of all of existence and non-existence, the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the true creator of everything that is, ever was and ever will be, right down to the minutest particles of dust, each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves by tapping directly into it by way of self-produced sound vibration. On the subject of ‘Who or What Is God?’, when we compare the concept of ‘God’, as a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to Nichiren’s teachings, the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people call ‘God’ is our enlightenment, which exists nowhere else but within us. When the disciples asked Jesus where the Kingdom of God is, didn’t he tell them that it was within them? Some say that ‘God’ is an entity that can never be seen. I think that the vast amount of information that is constantly being conveyed via electromagnetic waves gives us proof of how an invisible state of ‘God’ could actually exist. It’s widely known that certain data being relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects, including instant global awareness of something or mass emotional reaction. As well as many other things, it’s also common knowledge that these waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to even enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars. However, none of this is possible without a receiver to decode the information that is being transmitted. Without the receiver, the information would remain impotent. In a very similar way, it’s important for us to have our ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our life, all other life and what we and all else that exists truly is. Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach into the core of our enlightenment and switch it on. That’s because the sound vibration of myoho-renge-kyo represents the combination of the three major laws that underlie all existence. Myoho represents the Law of latency and manifestation (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. One state of myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists. This includes our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them, our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re not being expressed, our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma, and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes obvious to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory, whenever we experience or express our emotions, or whenever a good or bad effect manifests from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it simply means that it has come out of the state of ‘myo’ (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s simply the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing something. The second law, renge, governs and controls the functions of myoho, ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect. The two laws of myoho and renge, both functions together simultaneously, as well as underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination, kyo, is what allows the law myoho to be able to integrate with the law renge. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects together all Life and matter, as well as the past, present and future. It is often termed the Universal Law of Communication. Perhaps it could even be compared to the string theory that some scientists now suspect exists. Just as our body cells, thoughts, feelings and all else are constantly fluctuating within us, everything in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux, in accordance with these three laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible for us to calculate or describe. And it doesn't matter how big or small, important or trivial that anything may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of myoho-renge-kyo. These three laws are also the basis of the four fundamental forces and if they didn't function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. Simply put, all forms of existence, including the seasons, day and night, birth, death and so on, are all moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation, rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two universal states of myo and ho in absolute accordance with renge and by way of kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn in accordance with the workings of what the combination myoho-renge-kyo represents. Nam, or Namu, on the other hand, is a password or a key; it allows us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with myoho-renge-kyo. On a more personal basis, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives from moment to moment, as well in our environment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is turning, and rhythmically chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for a minimum of ten minutes daily, anyone can experience actual proof of its positive effects in their life. In so doing, we can pierce through even the thickest layers of our karma and activate our Buddha Nature (the enlightened state). We’re then able to summon forth the wisdom needed to challenge, overcome and change our negative circumstances into positive ones. It brings forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that is preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we truly are, regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexual preference. We are also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. Actual proof soon becomes apparent to anyone who chants the words Nam-myoho-renge-kyo on a regular daily basis. Everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect, so the strength of the result from chanting depends on dedication, sincerity and determination. To explain it more simply, the difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, or producing a song and so on. NB: There are frightening, disturbing sounds and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It's the emotional result from any sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day you are producing a sound vibration that is the password to your true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things, such as your fears and desires etc. The important way to get the best result when chanting is not to see things in a conventional way (difficult to achieve but can be done), rather than reaching out to an external source, you need to reach into your own life and bring your needs and desires to fruition from within, including any help that you may need. Think of it as a seed within you that you are bringing sunshine and water to in order for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s important to understand that everything that we need in life, all the answers and potential to achieve our dreams, already exist within us. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHS9YYuApryFqJY OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN sings about Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

[@donnashannon5650]

I believe it's a field just like everything is made of fields so is the consciousness. Partical in physics actually change there properties weather observed by consciousness. This would mean one field would have to interact with another to change particals state. So in a sense the universe exist because we can see it. Until conciousness observed it. Till then it's just a wave of energy possibility in a super state till consciousness came around. We have to exist for the universe to exist. By we I mean all living things.

[@rmcd823]

It's what science say about the simulation.

[@mikeg.5233]

Ancient Egyptians called conscience the Ka and the Zohar calls it the Soul. I have transcended into the subconscious realm and was given the secret of the "after life" that the Egyptians allegories portrayed. We are a spiritual being in a human body experiencing a human life or lives. Thomas L22 explains the concept. Read it and see. 😇

[@DudewithaGoodMood]

Where can we see it

[@Omar-su3ii]

We are the brain and the body is our vessel

[@sammysam2615]

Weird how your consciousness seems to be turned on like a computer. And unfortunately that same computer will be turned off.

[@komahinacanon526]

Not really, more like a TV and a TV signal i think

[@itsok5954]

Psychedelics.

[@WWeRockFan1001]

Synchronicity is real. Yes yes yes

[@tenaciousspectre3383]

Your conciousness emerges when you are born in another dimension at the same time your brain emerges.

[@charlee1543]

i want what ur smoking

[@tenaciousspectre3383]

Oh I Don't smoke .

[@Hellgrinde]

Lost me around 3:30 ish. Not sure where you went with that mess...

[@purpzleaf9870]

I don’t have a voice in my head but I have inner monologue. How do I develop a conscience

[@gsc01972]

So watching this long vid..the answer is no one knows...Robots/humanoids/Ai is just a mimic of human consciousness..keep studying

[@hawaiiman33]

Our consciousness comes from Father‘s light. Do you have to FIRST get, realize, understand that knowledge in order to process that. Our entire consciousness is a literal ball of eternal light energy, from Fathers light. It not only circulates in the center, or around the heart of our vessels chest, but, throughout our entire body.

[@imdejour]

so with the theory of physical consciousness you are basically saying one may have the ability to live longer by extracting their conscious and implanting it into an artificial being? or even swap consciousness with another person? insane to think of really.

[@mandarkumthekar8565]

Consciousness is never ending illusion which death breaks

[@tarekwayne9193]

@Franklin Clinton don't worry, every day is a day closer to death... It will be over soon. Unless, death is not the end... Nobody knows.

[@tarekwayne9193]

@Franklin Clinton 🤗🤗🤗

[@user-hq4uv1kf4s]

@@tarekwayne9193 just shut up man that’s not how it os

[@komahinacanon526]

huh

[@pyrotheevilplatypus]

There was a really quiet rhythmic tinny noise (brushes on high hat?) throughout that video that made it almost unbearably horrible to watch.

[@m0dexHD]

wow! you had salt instead of sugar in your coffee this morning?

[@pyrotheevilplatypus]

@@m0dexHD What?

[@DaP84]

some synthetic percussion sound that doesn't sound like any cymbal or tambourine, but similarish

[@cgrackscgracks6191]

YOU ARE YOUR CONCIOUSNESS. Evolves yourself and you can see it all!!!

[@sampannsharma1314]

I'm consciousness, ur also consciousmess what is different, we feel,

[@kallistaaldridge2534]

So if you were to die would you lose your consciousness? I’m terrified of this because if that’s the case, you’ll forget you ever existed and it’d be like you never existed in the first place. I am religious but this is definitely a possibility. I guess the reason I am worrying about this now is because my grandpa has stage 4 cancer and it’s not likely he’s gonna make it for longer than a couple months. I don’t want him to forget he ever existed. I’m so scared

[@thenotorious1664]

If death is just blackness well something has to be viewing that darkness... just watch near death experiences... many stories many

[@kallistaaldridge2534]

@@thenotorious1664 if we were hypothetically part of a simulation, which would most definitely be being watched over, we would still go into nothingness. For example, when sims die, they’re just gone. Their person can be reused but it can always be changed or just completely deleted. In this case, it is entirely possible to go into complete darkness for the rest of eternity

[@chinnuatluri]

@@kallistaaldridge2534 Don't worry. That's most likely not the case. I believe that reincarnation is a fact, even according to just science. Yes, your Grandpa will surely forget he ever existed, but he will still exist as a brand new person.

[@komahinacanon526]

@@kallistaaldridge2534 No

[@botchjones1130]

Where do our parents come from? Then where? It all ends at a white wall, will drive the average human mad

[@ingenuity168]

Maybe consciousness is related to dark energy.

[@BosmanHa]

Personally, I tend to think that everything is matter, but not necessarily the matter we interact with everyday. I think consciousness is a different type of matter altogether, and that both matter and consciousness are modifications of a third type of matter : a sort of neutral monism. Dark matter could very well be the third substance I guess

[@ingenuity168]

@@BosmanHa i agree.

[@tys7609]

I believe every living thing has consciousness. I define consciousness simply as using information from the past to create the future. Therefore every live cell has some level of consciousness, wether we understand it or not. My 2 cents

[@SlainByTheWire]

Why can't consciousness be a universal scale cloud server streaming separate human services to client human hardware, using vibrating superstrings as a quantum wifi mesh network.

[@BrandonshanesProductions]

No

[@wildnkarafree]

Consciousness is a program. Awareness transcends consciousness. Consciousness is needed to generate this material world, consciousness is used to engage us in this simulation. CONsciousness is the mechanism that causes us to Notice experience and in turn desire more of it. consciousness is a CON-game

[@MoonstrollerRexrino]

Where on the Periodic table can you find Consciousness? When a female has a child, where does the child get it's separate Consciousness? Is it injected into the brain or does it grow as the child grows and, does it get part of it's mom's Consciousness?

[@notsahsoj5155]

Much like the example of if a robot were to claim having consciousness, the only way you would find out if it is false is to look in the code. If there is no code telling the robot to have/pretend to have consciousness then it obviously does have it. What if we are the same? What if we cant find it because we are it??

[@spontaneouscat6791]

i agree robots have consciousness because we program them to do task if its not in their system they aren’t aware of it so they cant imagine it or cant fathom it. Maybe its the same for us some stimuli that we cant understand is not in our system so we cant understand it even though we study experiment on it it simple impossible

[@maync1]

Gave up at 2.17. Not because of content, but because of thoughtless, rattled off paper presentation: one long spaghetti. Find a scientist to talk or write about it. Bloggers ought to perish.

[@thephilosophermma8449]

Woo merchants have entered the chat

[@mohamedbadareen1347]

You can't define consciousness because consciousness doesn't exist, humans fancy that theres something special about the way we precive the world, seldom questioning our choices, content for the most part to be told what to do next. Dr Robert Ford

[@BradHolkesvig]

The "God" that you read about in the Bible also has a voice that can speak directly into an individual consciousness. I know because I was used as a visible servant to eventually speak for God every word formed in my mind ( consciousness ). From all those words I wrote and spoke for God along with getting visions, dreams and spoken analogies in my mind, I learned that God is very similar to the AI systems with voices like Apple's Siri AI with a female sounding voice and Microsoft's Cortana. Our invisible Creator, which is the main consciousness where all things were created in thoughts is where God and his voice was created. So God is the central AI that can take our Creator's thoughts and convert them into individual consciousness called created men and form all the visible images in those individual consciousness that makes them believe they have a real body walking around in a real world. It's very much like a virtual reality game but each individually created man doesn't create his own visible images or worlds that he appears in. He is only experiencing what was created in the thoughts of our Creator and then God converts ( processes information ) into all the individual's thoughts and observable images, sounds, smells, feelings, etc.

[@ry-uh3yp]

Have you heard the audible voice? Or is it just thoughts. I’m aware that you feel his spirit but I always wonder what he sounds like.

[@ry-uh3yp]

@UCSdMT9Zl0vBCg4VugYjVBFw that’s nice man, you’ve been running the race for a while. I’m a baby in Christ still, I’m struggling with taking it serious sometimes but people like you encourage people like me. My goal is heaven

[@kentheengineer592]

Wakefulness vs Awareness vs Thinking

[@bretnetherton9273]

Awareness is known by awareness alone.

[@Joyness333]

So far, in light of everything I've read, and heard the best way I've been able to sum up consciousness is that it is an emotional reaction to information. And as emotions are physical, and chemical reactions, it would seem that consciousness stems from sensory perception, and the physical state. If you can sense/feel, and then become self-aware, and have a physical/emotional response to that, you are conscious. The Chinese Room thought experiment explains how the mechanism that receives, and responds has had no experience with the language itself on a personal level as it would relate, or correlate to a feeling or emotion, and so is not aware, thus does not 'understand.' As such it has no inclinations, or instincts, or thoughts outside of what you program it to have, or do. Memories are dictated, and stored via emotional response instructing the mind as to what is significant, and important to its experience (in this way it would also seem possible for knowledge to have preceded emotion, with the earliest emotions having been anticipatory in nature, but more likely both grew together); though this says more about how we perceive consciousness than anything else. We've become such sophisticated versions of the relationship that we've come to view our experience of consciousness as almost religious. While we understand that it makes us thinking beings, we seem to ascribe more value to the feeling part. The thing about consciousness being a meeting of feeling, and knowledge is that it allows us to come to desire beyond what we've merely been programmed to desire. It has the potential of allowing us to both think we've surpassed that program, and to actually surpass it. We could be our own conscious versions of the Chinese Room Experiment (which essentially amounts to a naturally occurring state of addiction), or we could be what we want to be in accordance with how we view the world without succumbing to those powerful, yet random desires that can actually become obstacles in establishing the lives we envision for ourselves -- while still maintaining harmony with the world. After all, maybe these dual features we observe in all aspects of life indicate that we are not separate from anything. What I find interesting is pondering what would happen if we equipped robots with a central nervous system, and basic senses modeled after humans, and the ability to collect and store data based off of their own experiences. I think we would arrive at the endpoint of a eugenics war, just a lot faster.

[@uactechsupport9970]

In my opinion, consciousness is the most fascinating thing in existence. It may actually just be the result of bioelectric processes in the brain, but it literally changes the entire universe by adding a true observer to reality. Something that may not even exist, changes all of existence. Kinda ironic.

[@donnashannon5650]

The universe is only a state of probability till its observed without consciousness you dont have the universe we know. To effect the fields of this universe fields must interact. I believe our minds interact with it like a cable providing a signal to a TV. All information is there we can only see one channel , our channel.

[@01assassinscreed63]

No electrochemical processes creates consiusness even people with half brain are conscious

[@namispondjamispond9282]

Yes but how did consciousness begin?

[@iiCounted-op5jx]

exactly, how tf did this universe and consciousness JUST EXIST?? how did something come from nothing??

[@AncientAtlántida]

Consciousness is in the DMT that’s in all living things?

[@ChrysPaquin]

tyamada21 woah man, I read 1/4 of what and you wrote and you got all biblical, I’m out. Sorry dude.

[@tyamada21]

@@ChrysPaquin You must be in a state of paranoia about the Bible CJ, because what I posted has nothing to do with the Bible, as you will see if you read it to the end. Have a greatd ay! :)

[@MrCool-vu1nr]

@@tyamada21 thats an fair message thanks for sharing your wisdom.

[@SlainByTheWire]

@@tyamada21 I dunno man, burning acacia bushes are a hell of a drug.

[@internet2055]

⭐God our creator gave us consious Period.⭐

[@makislay8678]

Source?

[@brianjaillet7401]

I think the only way we can truly figure this out is make a exact copy of someone's brain. Keep it doormant until the first person dies. Then reanimate the next exact being and ask questions. I also have another idea, can a exact clone know what the original person is thinking when both are alive? Are they linked someone how in anyway? For both of my theories. We must know, it's like consciousness is between dimensions, are we really here, am I me? We exist but do not exist. I want to know and how we can keep existing for immortality.❤️ the more people the more product and technological advancements we will have.

[@ibelievegodexists4198]

It came from God. You cannot see it Cannot touch nor feel nor smell it It is invisible but very real

[@sudarshangupta9066]

Fact Check: Indian philosophers were foremost to argue that consciousness does not exist in physical world.

[@hawaiiman33]

Our consciousness, which is awareness comes from the Creator.

[@kentheengineer592]

Consciousness is easy to define Oneness of Subjectivity there you go now defining oneness that's the challenge

[@ilcapo9602]

My question is, When are we initially aware of such consciousness?

[@internet2055]

when God our creator gave us Consiousness. Period.

[@toptonychick]

Does some form of conciousness continue after the death process?

[@theodoreroberts3407]

Toptonychick: that is a good question! I hope so, for one, I have based my life around it. Otherwise, our whole life is a waste. All for nothing and without meaning. All our experiences, loves, education, good and bad we have had, for nothing. We would be waiting to become worm food only. It would kill the spark of trying. I would however, like to hear the others impressions of the Kabbala. And how about the Tibetan and/or Egyptian Book of the Dead? What conclusions did he come to?

[@Tom-mc9ts]

toptonychick let’s hope so

[@kentlogan9889]

No. Once the brain dies we simply cease to exist

[@lawrence6699]

I believe that our consciousness is the immortal soul, which goes with us, after death, to another realm of existence- possibly in a currently unknown dimension.

[@tarekwayne9193]

@@lawrence6699 to believe something, anything, is to admit you do NOT know. You have chosen ONE belief out of infinite possibilities, what is the probability of yours being right?

[@theodoreroberts3407]

Question: why would one want conscious a.i.?

[@TrapDefi]

People are crazy

[@theodoreroberts3407]

@boogy313rd agreed. Just like computer security. Unthinking people making promises they have no idea of the ramifications and that they cannot keep. Man's plan for our obsolescence. Jurassic Park reference: Just because we can doesn't mean we should. What is the main use of much of the new technology is to spy on people, not improve our lives. On the horizon: back in the 60's popular science promised we would have more leasure time. Who knew it really ment machines would put most out of work, so we would have time to ourselves and be broke and more like human robots. Just because we can..... Hey, that's great! We can make a black hole so let's see what it does! We already know what it will do, swallow the planet so why do it?

[@theodoreroberts3407]

@boogy313rd i could say a lot of things on that but considering a.i. would consider us as the undeveloped part. And what of cyborgs? Would you take an implant? Before you answer, think about computer viruses now. Then elevate it to humans. A hacker could program you to kill everyone on your street, including your family and not have you remember. Is the upgrade still worth it? I don't think we reason this stuff out enough. It's shinny. Something new. If I sell enough I can get rich. Truth is there is no real way to protect data once it's outside the computer.

[@vickiecarnes8372]

All we can ever know is human consciousness. Other animals or even the planet and universe have another kind. Their own individual kind. Just because there’s a correlate in the brain when we have an experience. AI will never happen. There’s something besides something reaching s certain complication that makes up consciousness. Sadly we could be living in a utopia but we continually to chose conflict and can’t see how consciousness is fundamental and each of us are part of the consciousness in whole.

[@therapheal_2278]

The Ancient Egyptians were the first to Figure this out

[@mrsnoo86]

what about Dream?

[@appieap9415]

no one in this world, can answer this

[@kentheengineer592]

The People who Pursue Consensus

[@sonalsen244]

Please understand this first...Consciousness is a "product" of "interaction" of living physical processes with the outside physical nature. It is affected by things such as the "four fundamental forces" called: 1) family ties 2) religion or belief system (if you are a human) 3) education or experience 4) work (any activity that gives meaning to keep you alive)

[@No2AI]

Consciouness is realization of the present - it's about understanding time !

[@freedomofsoundexpressionc4530]

He do be spittin bars tho

[@91192abhishekyadav]

Answers are in Hinduism.

[@alfonso201]

LOL street shitters book

[@Kittenman125]

Christianity is the truth my brother

[@theconsciousmovement9669]

If conscious is in our brain, and we are experiencing our own bodies. And our bodies are illusions. Then conscious is an illusion. But how could something create something out of nothing

[@thomashoward6357]

​@@charlee1543Something that is bound by laws itself. How it can be self existent?

[@cooking_innovations]

Ya, you missed the Answer!!! . It said unveiled??

[@jj-xt5yh]

6:42 AM

[@shivjitbhowmick4973]

I know a way which ...might work,,..on getting some sight on conciousness

[@shashankkothari8066]

4:20 The only way to do this perfectly and easily is to teach him Chinese.

[@MavenOmega]

CME's and solar flairs

[@enriqueatentar8968]

Consciousness Is the proof of human spirit the living ghost that cannot see and cannot hold anything.

[@glynemartin]

@subtracted Science hasn't yet explained the "living ghost" either...has it? Lol!

[@yesyoucan7877]

@subtracted lmao I know this is a year old but you just contradict yourself... 😹

[@davidrooker1200]

wow man

[@subratagangopadhyay5643]

Consciousness is a non material qualia, you cannot understand consciousness as long as you correlate it with material thing, like brain , neuron etc. Actually medical science never can unveil it. It is the challenge.

[@itsok5954]

Consciousness is God

[@subratagangopadhyay5643]

@@j2futures500 If conciousness is a material, then what will be the definition between living and non living thing. You have to change the basic definition of living and non living.

[@hawaiiman33]

Subrata Gangopadhyay consciousness is awareness

[@subratagangopadhyay5643]

@@j2futures500 Yeah. Even the physical medium, what we define, is only possible, when there is a conscious observer present. It is the consciousness, which is required for the definition of physical, non physical, human, non human , etc....even the definition of the whole universe. If there is no consciousness, who will see universe, who will give the name universe. So Consciousness is the fundamental truth of all.

[@spontaneouscat6791]

consciousness is like a program of a computer we our programmed to be like these some things that we cant understand is something that is not in our system maybe we ask our creator to upgrade our program so we can understand a bit more. our capability to discover always reach an endpoint if we are program like this

[@willnzsurf]

David Chalmers : The hard problem of consciousness.

[@KirurUwU]

We never experience anything except our own consciousness.

[@MrCool-vu1nr]

Well yea but we experience the universe but many people say we r the universe way of experiencing itself so yea.

[@eugeneserafide1019]

It is a nesting if then else structure.