Where Does Consciousness Come From? | Unveiled

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

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

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.

This is just what I needed at 2am lol

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?

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.

High af watching this video 🤯😭

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

Conciousness according to Bohm exists on a quantum level and beyond. Thinking in terms of mind and physical is too limiting. Conciousness IS awareness itself so don't confuse the words. In fact English alone is not enough to even explain conciousness. Things exist in implicate and explicate order and this is in harmony with the Kabbalistic texts since what we call reality is only the surface within a deeper level of objective reality in its totality. The brain and its contents are merely vessels but I can promise you that conciousness is beyond the physical and the mental.

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

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

Nice summary thx !

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Consciousness learning itself.

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.