Consciousness

What is consciousness?

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Duration: 12:43
Updated: 10 Sep 2015
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Understanding what consciousness is, and why and how it evolved, is perhaps the greatest mystery known to science. Subscribe NOW to The Economist: http://econ.st/1Fsu2Vj Get more The Economist Follow us: https://twitter.com/TheEconomist Like us: https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist View photos: https://instagram.com/theeconomist/ The Economist videos give authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them.

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What Is Consciousness?

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Duration: 7:16
Updated: 06 Jan 2012
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LEANBACK IS HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoR0bMohcNo&list;=PLE3048008DAA29B0A&feature;=plpp_play_all Music courtesy of Jake Chudnow: http://www.soundcloud.com/jakechudnow TWITTER: @tweetsauce FACEBOOK: http://www.Facebook.com/VsauceGaming Learn more: Cleverbot: http://cleverbot.com/ Wikipedia on Consciousness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness Philosophical ZOMBIES: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/ NAMI on Anosognosia: http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Mental_Illnesses/Schizophrenia9/Anosognosia_Fact_Sheet.htm Information is Beautiful on Consciousness Theories: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/what-is-consciousness/ Google Books: Awarenes of Deficit After Brain Injury": http://books.google.com/books?id=xze89PCLaWMC&lpg;=PP1&pg;=PA53#v=onepage&q;&f;=false "What is consciousness" conscious "what is identity" identity vsauce "Michael Stevens" brain neuroscience "other minds"

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Consciousness Science Kept Hidden

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Duration: 149:36
Updated: 12 Jan 2013
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This is not my video. I'm sharing this with anyone who is interested in this peaceful subject. To own a pristine copy of Quantum Communication go to this link to my Amazon affiliate store http://yesethan.com/ Producer: David Sereda & James Law Jr. Thanks for watching. "How do we create an intelligent dialog with the creative force of the Universe to allow us to experience a Quantum leap in our own intelligence?" NASA Space Sounds http://youtu.be/jgQ9THRckJ0 http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/01nov_ismsounds/ http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/features/halloween_sounds.html "The way we manifest abundance in our lives is to awaken the genius within each one of us so that we can excel in our relationships, careers and super-learning to transform our lives and those around us. Discover how to master this in your life! This awakening of intelligence happens when we understand how Quantum Communication actually functions within each of us. Learn techniques to open this awareness within yourself to become a Fully-Actualized human being." brain alpha gamma beta create quantum reality mind consciousness intentions communication evolution awareness telepathy super human abilities God angels light beings sound frequencies laws jupiter earth sacred geometry music of the spheres meditation evolution

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David Chalmers: How do you explain consciousness?

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Duration: 18:38
Updated: 14 Jul 2014
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Our consciousness is a fundamental aspect of our existence, says philosopher David Chalmers: "There's nothing we know about more directly.... but at the same time it's the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe." He shares some ways to think about the movie playing in our heads. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

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THE AWAKENING – Quantum Mechanics of the Human Brain & Consciousness

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Duration: 49:31
Updated: 01 May 2015
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https://www.facebook.com/AdvexonFreedom ☮ FREEDOM TV LIKE SHARE SUBSCRIBE God Bless Human Brain And Quantum Physics - Become Self Aware Dr. Granville Dharmawardena of the University of Colombo writes that psychologists often speak of the mind and the body as two separate entities for convenience, but most acknowledge that they are intimately entwined. Yet none knows exactly how or how intimately. So the mind body problem keeps stubbornly resisting a definite solution. Philosopher John Searle (Mills Professor of Philosophy, University of California, and Berkley) says that today’s philosophers are reluctant to tackle such big problems as how people have been trying to understand their relationship to the universe. All these refer to the elusive relationship between the body and the mind referred to more generally as the brain-mind problem. The brain-mind relationship has baffled mankind for a very long time. One main reason for this is that it was not considered as a candidate for scientific study until recently. Psychology and related sciences were able to continue for many years by either ignoring the brain entirely or at best treating it as a black box whose rules of operation could be understood without reference to its internal contents or composition. The human brain without doubt is the most complex organ in the known universe. It is physical and biological. Therefore, it has to be amenable to scientific probing without the intervention of such considerations as the Gödel’s theorem, which states that there are statements in mathematical systems which are true but cannot be proven within those systems. Consciousness on the other hand is neither physical nor biological. Therefore, it is a more elusive subject to deal with and Gödel’s considerations may have a role to play there. Attempts to understand brain and consciousness have been mostly based on restrictive Newtonian classical science and exclusively the material realm composed of matter. Although the powers of understanding of human senses and the scope of Newtonian science are limited to three spatial dimensions, the scope of our universe is not limited to three dimensions. In fact, news theories hypothesize there are eleven dimensions. Many of the natural phenomena happening within our universe transcend the three dimension scene. Therefore, it is not possible to assume that the mechanisms of operation of the brain and consciousness remain imprisoned within the confines of Isaac Newton’s three dimensional material universe. Just as the Earth was proved not to be the center of the universe, our current theories that govern our physical universe such as Einstein’s gravity theory and others may become obsolete in our understanding of reality. #Top, #Best, #HD, #Illuminati, #TopSecret, #Secret, #Security, #Sky, #Googlemap, #google, #youtube, #Uncensored, #nude, #certified, #Government, #CIA, #FBI, #NATO, #NASA, #State, #America, #VIP, #howto, #amazing, #cool, #highlights, #sexy, #moon, #space, #interview, #Advexon, #Bible, #Jesus, #New, #2014, #2015, #DocumentaryHD, #Documentary2015, #fulldocumentary, #crazy #love #NWO #RFID #chip #theory #conspiracy #california #sanfrancisco #japan #russia #china #korea #israel #isis #911 #666 #mustwatch #meditation #telekinesis #psychokinesis, #spiritual #energy #chi #psi, psi-wheel, spoon-bending, #teleport, #supernatural #power, super-psychic, #precognition, #postcognition, #foretunetelling, clairvoyance, jinn #angels, #sprits, tarot card, foresee future, past present, #matrix #reality, #illusion, spirit #science, mentalist, #mind-reading #freedomtv #Advexonfreedom #worldgoverment #Federal #Reserve #Federalreserve #Worldwar #WW3 #Breakingnews #News #Worldnews #rfid #ISIS #terror #wakeup #Advexon illuminati #conspiracy illuminati #music #illuminati #signs and symbols #illuminati #symbols #Trilateral #Commission #Bank #Hitler #communism #fascism #Russia #China #SovietUnion #FBI #CIA #MonetaryFund #Terrorist #FederalReserve #Administration #Investigation #Ritual #sacrifice #BCC #eye #pyramid #Media #news #GeorgeBush #justice #congress #JPMorgan #MorganStanley #Time #Oldest #Rockefeller #Rothschild #Taft #initiation #secrets #billionaire #loyalty #Bilderberg #keyposition #power #gold #oil #change #bulding7 #worldtrade #Antichrist #666 #senator #911 #NOVUSORDOSECLORUM #agenda21 #ebola #vaccine #zombie #Armageddon #end #apocalypse

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Consciousness -- the final frontier | Dada Gunamuktananda | TEDxNoosa 2014

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Updated: 16 Apr 2014
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Dada Gunamuktananda: Yogi and Meditation Teacher Bio: Dada Gunamuktananda has trained in meditation, yoga and natural health sciences in Australia, the Philippines and India. He has been a meditation teacher of Ananda Marga since 1995 and has taught and lectured on meditation in New Zealand, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. www.anandamarga.org Title: Consciousness : The Final Frontier Synopsis: The exploration of inner space, our own consciousness, is ultimately connected to our discovery of outer space. Just as the world becomes a smaller place with increase in communication and transport technology, so the universe becomes a smaller place with the increase in meditation technology! In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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The Reality of Consciousness, Peter Russell

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Duration: 38:22
Updated: 21 Nov 2014
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Wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, the collapse of the wave function, and entanglement all point to awareness being an intrinsic aspect of reality. Yet we are still trying to understand them in terms of a worldview that believes the real world to be that of space, time, and matter, and relegates consciousness to some artifact of brain processes. Yet the one thing of which we are certain is that we are aware. And it is the one thing the current worldview cannot account for. is profound anomaly will ultimately lead to the full paradigm shift to which contemporary physics is, unwittingly, pointing. With consciousness as primary, everything remains the same and everything changes. Mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry are unchanged. What changes is our assumption as to what they are describing. They are not describing the unfolding of a physical world, but the unfolding of a universal self-aware eld. We are led to the conclusion that the entire cosmos is a vast eld of knowing, knowing itself, and in that knowing creating for itself the appearance of a material world. Why then don't we see it that way? Why does the material world appear devoid of consciousness? From the deep pools of Eastern wisdom, to the fast-paced rapids of the West, Peter Russell has mastered many fields, and synthesized them with consummate artistry. Weaving his unique blend of scientific rationale, global vision, and intuitive wisdom, Peter brings a sharp, critical mind to the challenge of self-awakening. The next great frontier of human exploration, he shows, is not outer space, but inner space—the development of the human mind. He has degrees in theoretical physics, experimental psychology, and computer science from the University of Cambridge in England, and has written ten books in this area, including The Global Brain Awakens, Waking Up in Time, and most recently, From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness. http://www.peterrussell.com

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How Close is Science to Understanding Consciousness?

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Duration: 115:51
Updated: 14 Nov 2015
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http://www.scienceandnonduality.com/ Fascinating conversation with Stuart Hameroff, Julia Mossbridge, Henry Stapp and Chris Fields, Donald Hoffman facilitated by A.H. Almaas Four different scientists with varying views of consciousness or mind. This panel will be a conversation between these different views to understand their contributions, and to see how they understand each other, and how they relate to other theories of consciousness. The point is to have a genuine deep dialogue between scientific theories of consciousness to find commonalities, and the meaning of the differences. We will explore whether scientific theories have a consensus about anything relating to consciousness, like an operating definition of consciousness. I will be facilitating with an eye from the nondual view of consciousness, to ask questions and address issues in the study of consciousness that can help in looking deeper into the assumptions and conclusions of each theory.

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Consciousness Mechanics: The Movie

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Duration: 101:41
Updated: 09 Aug 2014
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Check this description for a list of each section in this movie. Also, different browsers render the movie slightly differently. For example, if you are viewing this in Mozilla Firefox, the movie will be slightly warmer in tint than if viewing in Google Chrome. More info here: http://iamniverse.com/aboutmovie.html Introduction – 00:00:53 The Experience of Time – 00:03:10 Parallel Universes – 00:09:45 Reality’s Change Rate – 00:17:44 Fields of Activity – 00:24:25 States of Consciousness – 00:30:00 A Reality of Symbols – 00:37:25 The Mirror Principle – 00:42:35 The Nature of Infinity – 00:48:06 The Spacetime Illusion – 00:52:50 The Herenow Reality – 00:56:26 Existence and Nonexistence – 01:00:11 Axioms of Change – 01:06:11 The Law of Probability – 01:08:55 Continuous Discontinuity – 01:12:10 Dimensional Mirrors – 01:16:30 Trichotomies of Experience – 01:18:35 The Observing Ego – 01:27:35 Interconnectivity – 01:31:41 Cole’s Paradox – 01:34:30 Universality – 01:37:22 No one has been paid to make anything in this video. If you enjoy this movie, please show your support and buy the book here: http://iamniverse.com/store.html If you liked the movie, you'll LOVE the book! There's much more info, including totally new concepts and new diagrams. Thank you for checking out the movie; it means the universe to me. :) ~ Carlton

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This will change your life, true knowledge of consciousness a MUST SEE for the human race!

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Duration: 92:54
Updated: 28 Jun 2015
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Original Film Title: '2012 Crossing Over: A New Beginning' Understand the bigger picture of all the numerous changes occurring on our earth and individual lives in this mind expanding Internet blockbuster, made in its entirety by ONE filmmaker only, Amel Tresnjic. “Through the art of film, my aim is to inform, empower and inspire a world of peace, love and harmony for all earthlings! Your support is the key to being able to make that a reality. If you value my documentary films, please make a donation and help me raise funds to make more films like these possible!” - Amel Tresnjic Donate to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ameltresnjic or on my website: http://www.bravearcherfilms.com/support-us.html Out Now Limited Edition DVD or Blu-Ray LOADED with BONUS FEATURES: http://www.bravearcherfilms.com/shop.html "Every $ we spend in this world serves as a vote for a cause. Through the art of film, my aim is to inform, empower and inspire a world of peace, love and harmony for all earthlings! Your support is the key to being able to make that a reality. We are all co-creators in this experience and with every individual choice that we make, we collectively give birth to and shape our future!" - Amel Tresnjic "Happiness will never depend on what you have, or who you are. It solely relies on what you think. If all looked at the big picture of life, then we would see the same thing. This simple thing would unite people, and we would live in paradise! Imagination is more important than knowledge, for while knowledge defines all we know, then pointing understanding of all imagination on what we can discover and create, and move forward. Our mission in life is not to get ahead of any other people, but to get ahead of ourselves, the solution is always Inside all problems. we just have to learn to see it.You can not solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking that created the problem. We are all children of God, and we all have the infinite power of God inside us. Choose to follow the light in your heart, think your world is only love and you will see, a world full of love! You have the power to change your world, simply change yourself to the change in the world around you want to see. WE ALL MADE OUT OF THE SAME UNIVERSE LOVE ENERGY, OR GOD´s LOVE ENERGY WE WERE ALL BORN FOR THIS! ALL MUST BE LOVE TO RISE AND SHINE! WE CAN ALL ONLY BE ONE ON EARTH, SO DO YOU LOVE ALL LIFE ON EARTH OR DO YOU STILL WONDER WHY YOU SHOULD? PLEASE DON'T LET THE TV TELL YOUR VISION OF THE WORLD. THINK OUTSIDE YOUR VISION OF THE ILLUSION THEY WANT YOU to SEE..No matter what thing or who say ALWAYS believe only if it reasoning with your common sense.- Buddha was not a Buddhist. Jesus was not a Christian. Muhammad was not a Muslim. They were teachers who taught love. Love was their religion. THE KEY IS LOVE FOR ALL THEN LOVE FROM ALL COME TO YOU.. What comes around goes around, Because Law of attraction in life work that way. The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart. Only as you do know yourself your brain can serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own feelings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. THE ONLY THING YOU REALLY NEED IS TO KNOW IS YOURSELF! Not your identity, not your body, not even your mind. All of these are yours already, so find out: WHO ARE YOU?? I am a citizen of the world. My religion equals Love. And my political view, is Oneness." written by Audiodoc Please support the creator of this film and in turn help him raise funds to make more films like these possible! * Buy the DVD or BluRay Final Edition LOADED with BONUS FEATURES: http://www.bravearcherfilms.com/shop * DOWNLOAD the Final Edition in FULL HD @ Vimeo On Demand: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/2012crossingover * Support Independent Filmmaking by Donating to the filmmaker: http://www.bravearcherfilms.com/support-us "As there is no mainstream support, how far the message will travel, depends on you! It is up to each and every one of us to inform, empower and inspire one another. This in turn I believe will inspire a better world. Please help spread the message of love by sharing the following links!" - Amel Tresnjic TRAILER 2012 Crossing Over: A New Beginning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGptPFOZ4c 2012 Crossing Over: A New Beginning FINAL EDITION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEDAK4VQl10 Interview with filmmaker Amel Tresnjic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1K4pFyYZQ www.bravearcherfilms.com Brave Archer Films®

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Consciousness: Explored and Explained

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Updated: 20 Feb 2015
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Consciousness is a terrible curse. Or so says a character in screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman’s Being John Malkovich. Part theater of the absurd and part neuroscience fiction, the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s work captures the splintering between what we perceive and what we feel as our brains grapple with multiple layers of reality. Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi, one of the world’s leading sleep researchers, casts new light on the science of the mind, probing where and how consciousness is generated in the brain. Watch this spellbinding conversation between Kaufman, Tononi, and moderator Alan Alda as they explore and explain the art, science, and mystery of consciousness. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest Participants: Charlie Kaufman, Giulio Tononi Original Program Date: June 5, 2010 Alan Alda Introduction 00:29 Participant Introductions 03:45 Being John Malkovich setup video. 05:45 Charlie, what led you to that part of consciousness? 07:05 Just know where stuff happens in the brain doesn't give you understanding of consciousness? 17:02 Whats the theory of what brings us consciousness? 27:45 Does consciousness have to do with individual elements that make up the whole? 31:55 Alan Alda gets tested on binocular rivalry. 38:47 Being John Malkovich helps explain inattentional blindness. 44:41 The rivalry of body vs consciousness 52:05 The Human brain vs an AI brain. 58:12 Finding consciousness by identifying what it is not. 01:07:00 What is sleep for? 01:18:02 Emotion tied to consciousness. 01:22:02

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Higher Consciousness

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Updated: 11 May 2015
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'Higher consciousness' sounds mystical and possibly irritating. It shouldn't. It just captures how we see things when we go beyond our own egos. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Mad Adam Films http://www.madadamfilms.co.uk

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Does Consciousness need a Brain? - Evidence for Reincarnation

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Updated: 05 Oct 2014
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Dr. Bruce Greyson reports of cases that suggest that consciousness does not need a physical brain and in fact not even a physical body. Presented at the "Cosmology and Consciousness Conference" hosted by Upper TCV, Dharamsala, in 2011. This video is from http://www.scienceformonks.org - On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/scienceformonks

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The Nature Of Consciousness (by Alan Watts)

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Updated: 11 Jan 2014
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AND Consciousness (The Modern Day Replacement for The Middle Way) - Teal Swan -

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Updated: 20 Feb 2016
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Teal's Web page: http://tealswan.com/ Teal's Meditations: http://www.jointeallive.com/meditations/ Teal's e-shop: https://gumroad.com/tealswan Subscribe to Teal’s newsletters here: http://thespiritualcatalyst.us6.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=a0c9fbd5534138eb374993029&id;=bebf0eebc3 In this episode, Teal introduces the idea of AND Consciousness. She explains that AND consciousness is the modern day replacement for the ancient practice of “The Middle Path” which seeks to find balance through moderation of extremes. http://www.askteal.com Kuan Yin's Mantra (c) 2002 Lisa Thiel Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/HtUr/

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Consciousness - Crash Course Psychology #8

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Updated: 24 Mar 2014
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You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Also, if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing great content. What exactly is Consciousness? Well... that's kind of a gray area. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank gives you the basic ideas of what Consciousness is, how our attention works, and why we shouldn't text and drive... ever... no, really, NEVER! -- Table of Contents Defining Consciousness 00:00:00 Neuroimaging 02:16:01 Dual Processing 03:45:18 Selective Attention 04:22:16 Selective Inattention 05:46:21 Change Blindness 06:12:08 -- Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support CrashCourse on Subbable: http://subbable.com/crashcourse

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Exploring Non-local Consciousness

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Updated: 10 Dec 2014
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Exploring Non-local Consciousness with Dean Radin (Senior Scientist at IONS), Neil Theise (Professor of Pathology and of Medicine), Julia Mossbridge (Cognitive Neuroscientist), John Hagelin (Quantum Physicist), Menas Kafatos (Quantum Physicist) and Rudolph Tanzi (Professor of Neurology, Harvard University), moderated by Cassandra Vieten (President of IONS) This superstar interdisciplinary panel will engage some of the very latest thinking and evidence for why it is becoming increasingly impossible to reduce consciousness to brain processes alone. We will ask questions like: How is it possible that we can access information at a distance and into the future? What is the relationship between unconsciousness processing and nonlocal consciousness? If our mind is locked inside of our skull, what accounts for mind-matter interactions? And what are the boundaries of the body anyway? And how can we learn to “use our brain” instead of having “our brain use us?”

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Alan Watts - Our consciousness and common sense (The Real You)

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Updated: 12 Feb 2016
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I got many requests from what lecture my "Desire" (starts about 8:00) video was, so i might upload the lecture without music as well. wich includes also the video from the Tragedy and Hope channel called: The real you. (starts about 2:30) thumbnail: https://www.facebook.com/JasonEJenkin...

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Michio Kaku: Consciousness Can be Quantified

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Updated: 04 Mar 2014
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Dr. Michio Kaku returns to Big Think studios to discuss his latest book, The Future of the Mind (http://goo.gl/1mcGeb). Here he explains how the quantifying approach common in physics can be used to model consciousness. Don't miss new Big Think videos! Subscribe by clicking here: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Transcript: In the entire universe the two greatest scientific mysteries are first of all the origin of the universe itself. And second of all the origin of intelligence. Believe it or not, sitting on our shoulders is the most complex object that Mother Nature has created in the known universe. You have to go at least 24 trillion miles to the nearest star to find a planet that may have life and may have intelligence. And yet our brain only consumes about 20-30 watts of power and yet it performs calculations better than any large supercomputer. So it's a mystery. How is the brain wired up? And if we can figure that out what can we do with it to enhance our mental capabilities. When you look at the brain and all the parts of the brain they don't seem to make any sense at all. The visual part of the brain is way in the back, for example. Why is the brain constructed the way it is? Is this nothing but an accident of evolution? Well one way to look at it is through evolution. That is, the back of the brain is a so-called reptilian brain. The most ancient primitive part of the brain that governs balance, territoriality, mating. And so the very back of the brain is also the kind of brain that you find in reptiles. Now when I was a child I would go to the science museum and look at the snakes sometimes and they would stare back at me. And I would wonder, "What are they thinking about?" Well, I think now I know. What they're thinking about was, "Is this person lunch?" Then we have the center part of the brain going forward and that's a so-called monkey brain, the mammalian brain. The brain of emotions. The brain of social hierarchies. And then finally the front of the brain is the human brain, especially the prefrontal cortex. This is where rational thinking is. And when you ask yourself a question where am I anyway. The answer is right behind your forehead. That's where you really are. Well, I have a theory of consciousness which tries to wrap it all up together. There've been about 20,000 or so papers written about consciousness and no consensus. Never in the history of science have so many people devoted so much time to produce so little. Well, I'm a physicist and when we physicists look at a mysterious object the first thing we try to do is to create a model. A model of this object in space. And then we hit the play button and run it forward in time. This is how Newton was able to come up with the theory of gravity. This is how Einstein came up with relativity. So I tried to use this in terms of the human brain and evolution. So what I'm saying is I have a new theory of consciousness based on evolution. And that is consciousness is the number of feedback loops required to create a model of your position in space with relationship to other organisms and finally in relationship to time. So think of the consciousness of a thermostat. I believe that even a lowly thermostat has one unit of consciousness. That is, it senses the temperature around it. And then we have a flower. A flower has maybe, maybe ten units of consciousness. It has to understand the temperature, the weather, humidity, where gravity is pointing. And then finally we go to the reptilian brain which I call level 1 consciousness and reptiles basically have a very good understanding of their position in space, especially because they have to lunge out and grab prey. Then we have level 2 consciousness, the monkey consciousness. The consciousness of emotions, social hierarchies, where are we in relationship to the tribe. And then where are we as humans. As humans we are at level 3. We run simulations into the future. Animals apparently don't do this. They don't plan to hibernate. They don't plan the next day's agenda. They have no conception of tomorrow to the best of our ability. But that's what our brain does. Our brain is a prediction machine. And so when we look at the evolution from the reptilian brain to the mammalian brain to the prefrontal cortex, we realize that is the process of understanding our position in space with respect to others -- that is emotions -- and finally running simulations into the future. Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler and Dillon Fitton

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers, Dennett, & Hoffman)

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Updated: 01 May 2015
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David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, and Donald Hoffman discuss the nature of consciousness and the so called "hard problem" at the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. Chalmers speaks first, outlining the general history of the problem. He then proceeds to spell out the different kinds of philosophical and scientific views one can have regarding the nature of consciousness, as well as the difficulties which arise for each type of view. Next Dennett gives his talk, in which he tries to show that there is no genuine "hard problem" of consciousness at all in the first place. As a reductive type-A materialist, he argues that the idea that there's an inner subject, or private realm of the mind with subjective qualia, is all just a cognitive illusion. We don't have anything that a philosophical zombie lacks. In this sense then, consciousness is simply an illusion and thus doesn't exist. Lastly, Hoffman presents his talk, where he describes his own particular view. His theory ends up seeming to be something like idealism or panpsychism, where consciousness is fundamental and prior to matter and the material (i.e. consciousness goes "all the way down" in some sense). There is then a discussion between the three of them with questions from the audience.

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The Cosmic Giggle - Spirituality and Consciousness Documentary

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Updated: 18 Oct 2015
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The Cosmic Giggle is an experimental documentary film that explores the human energy field's dynamic relationship with our environment. Naturally as human beings, we are connected to a vast network of fluid information inherent to the world around us. When we are children, we are open to this field through simple innocent observance, but because of our collective evolution towards a dominating and fixated worldview, this perception becomes veiled. This film reveals how this process takes place and provides keys for returning to a more primal and authentic experience of our reality. http://www.parallelperception.com

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"What Is Consciousness & Where Is It?" - Deepak Chopra

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Duration: 49:46
Updated: 26 Dec 2013
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http://www.scienceandnonduality.com What Is Consciousness & Where Is It?" Featuring Deepak Chopra What is the fundamental activity in the universe? Although neuroscience has made enormous progress in looking at the brain correlates of subjective and objective experience, there is still no theory on how we experience mental or perceptual reality. This is known as the "hard problem" in consciousness research. • Is there a scientifically viable way to explain consciousness? • Does mainstream science have the methodologies to address this question? • How do we explain intention, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, or free will? • Is free will an illusion? • Are there states of consciousness that go beyond waking, dreaming and sleeping? Wisdom traditions speak of higher states of consciousness such as soul consciousness, cosmic consciousness, divine consciousness, and unity consciousness. Is there a way of understanding these states or validating them scientifically? Is our current science which is based on a subject/object split equipped to answer these mysteries? What is the nature of the universe? What is the of nature awareness that makes it possible for us to experience the universe? Deepak is addressing in this talk these questions as well as others cosmic riddles. DEEPAK CHOPRA is the author of more than seventy books translated into over thirty-five languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers in both the fiction and nonfiction categories. Deepak is the Founder of The Chopra Foundation, Co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization. Time magazine heralds Deepak Chopra as one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century and credits him as 'the poet-prophet of alternative medicine'. For more information visit: http://www.deepakchopra.com The "birds on a wire" cartoon shown in in the video has been used with the approval of YouTube/The Chopra Well. We thank Deepak Chopra and his team for his support and generosity.

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Consciousness, a Quantum Physics Perspective

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Duration: 75:24
Updated: 01 Aug 2014
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Renowned quantum physicist, John Hagelin (PhD, Harvard), presents the thesis that consciousness is a unified field that contains nature's programming code and transcending through meditation is a pathway to hack / access consciousness.

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