Brain Activity Doesn’t Explain Consciousness | Dr. Raymond Tallis on the mind-body problem

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Professor Tallis—a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic, retired medical physician and clinical neuroscientist—discusses the relationship between mind and brain, as well as the big questions about the nature of reality.

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00:00:13 Discussion about metaphysical stance
00:01:40 "I can't know, so I take the position not to know"?
00:02:43 Critique of materialism
00:06:26 Conversation on existence of consciousness
00:08:32 Definition of consciousness
00:11:13 Exploration of individual and universal consciousness
00:15:03 Explanation of 'shared consciousness'
00:16:41 Inquiry into free will
00:27:54 Intersection of philosophy and science
00:33:06 Relationship between metaphysics and science
00:47:05 Limitations in understanding reality
00:49:03 Discussion on the mind-body problem
00:51:15 Talk about self and personhood
00:53:18 Hegel's Spiral
00:56:07 Purpose of life
00:57:24 Discussion on the point of evolution
00:59:10 Mention of the "butterfly effect"
00:59:39 Exploration of self and purpose of existence
01:02:22 Art as a medium to share experiences
01:06:57 Understanding of time
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Very engaging conversation. Wonderful interviewer too.

noreenquinn
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The water of brain activity and wine of consciousness. Beautiful ✌️🕉️

michaeldillon
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Great conversation!

Doctor Raymond Tallis is a very good teacher.

His use of analogies and examples made understanding these tricky ideas much easier! 👍

adamd
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There is no Mind/Body problem! We create the Mind/Body problem by not identifying ourselves with the Mind or Body as cause of living!
It's the same as we can freely choose between a Free or Absolute will!
Identifying with Mind & Body is resulting in becoming aware of:
1- I create myself (Egofullness)
2- I let myself being created (Egolessness)
It's choosing between "living in the body" & "living in the spirit"!
When you become fully aware of seeing the Body or Mind as the cause of living and forming your consciousness, everything will become clear whatever you choose! Good Luck! 🤔❤

myfilmpy
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And if you take it a bit further than Descartes, "you are not your thoughts either". You are the witness, the I AM. The "thing" that stays the same throughout your life.

arosalesmusic
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Consciousness at any level is about giving meaning/qualia to the things! That's what the consciousness do. Hence the confusion with "illusion" category. It is not that consciousness itself is an illusion, but the outcome of it - the world is illusion.

Upuaut
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Beautiful description. There is an interesting mathematical distinction between a thing and a process. The set of things leads to the algebraic world limited by Gödels insights while the processes are described in a complementary world, the co-algebra, which in turn is limited by Turings insights. From this reasoning it is evident that life, and probably consciousness, are processes. We are not used to such beasts. Music is a pure process. Still now is a snapshot of all processes that are. Somehow the thought of the habits of nature and our physics understanding extracting laws of what nature usually does, is appealing. I am a process with only incomplete memory and this makes it hard to grasp it all. If our memory would be perfect, we would see a halfsphere of the 4D reality we might live in, but the memory is continuously changing... Therefore, thank you for this enlightening discussion.

oasill
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one might imagine that a print out of brain activity is like a print out of the atmospheric conditions - temp pressure humidity etc and these measures might be able to be described in different terms as say a rainy day or a sunny day like wise a happy state of mind or a sad state of mind - some objectivity achieved but nothing is ever its symbolic representation

alanbooth
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All is reducible to “consciousness” yet we can’t define it. We sense it, we realize it because it is what makes you you, it has no physical characteristics.

zakmatew
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00:18:00 You say you have “Free Will”? ...But first you have to decide who/What is Free Will!? May I suggest- Free Will has to come out of the present or Now! But we are only ever Perception aware of the Past never Of the present! Therefore Free Will is Not yours but arrives from the Conscious Consciousness Which is of the “Absolute Presence Of Zero Time, And is not debatable as Yours to Own!? Regards

SpudderR
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"Consciousness" is a common, necessarily vague English word. And so it shall remain.

bobaldo
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I don’t understand your objection to panpsychism. All other theories are dualistic. Matter is real and mysterious. Mind is the evolved contaminant of awareness a physical phenomenon. Mind either exists as a structural aspect of matter or it doesn’t exist. Conversely only mind exists and matter is an aspect of mentation. You are a dualist you are consistently proposing the existence of one thing by it opposing another thing this is not a description of mind. I can’t discern your position.

petershelton
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...an extraordinary man
extraordinary mind
extraordinary
discussion
thanks

martinkennedy
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I like the fact that even though Dr. Raymond is an atheist, he's not a reductionist materialist.

joeclark
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materialism starts 'failing' even as it attempts to explain material. to expect it to explain consciousness is unrealistically optimistic. the real failure is the idea of explaining.

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EsatBargan
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Well, he at some point says that the brain is "for reasons that escape him" necessary for consciousness. I'd argue that this is a materialist position, which would make him a materialist.

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I love how simply and clearly this man can explain the self evident.

crucifixgym
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EsatBargan
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there are known knowns
there are known unknowns
and there are unknown unknowns

ElkoJohn