The Structure of Consciousness

Trying to make sense of one of the most complicated mysteries of modern science, the phenomenon of concsiousness and how it arises from a material system like the brain, in an 11 minute video is almost impossible. But here I take a shot at it.

Sources:
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4) Wilson, D. L. 1999. "Mind-brain interaction and the violation of physical laws." Pp. 185–200 in The Volitional Brain, edited by B. Libet, A. Freeman, and K. Sutherland. Thorverton, UK: Imprint Academic. See also Churchland, P. M. 2013 "Matter and Consciousness", pp. 29-35 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for further arguments against materialism.
5) Dennett, D. 1991. Consciousness Explained, p. 33, Hachette Book Group USA
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7) Joseph Levine, Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 6.
[8-9 Not listed in the video, but sources about the neurobiology of concsiousness]
8) Gosseries O., Laureys S., Tononi G. 2016. The Neurology of Consciousness, Second Edition Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropathology, p. 5-6
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12) Gazzaniga, MS 2018. The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind, Part 2, Ch. 4, par. 4 & 6
13) Ibid.
14) Gazzaniga MS, Ivry RB, Mangun GR, 2019. "Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind, 5th edition", p. 655, W. W. Norton & Company
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17) Gazzaniga, MS 2018. "The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind", Part 2, Ch. 5.

[publicspace]

Thank you so much for listing the sources!

[voulgarispavlos]

Layered Architecture is found everywhere as it seems! Well said, nice shot!

[sakaloglou]

Extremely well structured video with simple explanations and vivid mental images. Keep up the good work!

[abalop]

First of all congrats on your 1st installment of what I hope to be a series! I was wondering that the structured composition of biological neural sensors of the brain work in harmony and compliance so that our mind can create thoughts. I have 2 questions dear Achilles. Technology is making artificial neural systems and networks in order to connect through seer logic gates to structure data and connect it similarly, do you believe or know(?) If digital consciousness can be achieved? Or can a network of artificial sensors can be made in a way that it can produce a fantasy or imaginative speculations?

Thanks in advance, your video was really comprehensible and well structured but if I may point out something to improve I would suggest that you should take some breathes and not rush between topics so that the information settles down before digestion. Really good effort, keep it up!

[TheLoukas]

Wowww amazingly structured video waiting for more