Neil Theise, M.D.: Complexity Theory & Panpsychism

[ikigai]

Thank you Neil! Great info! Enjoy listening to your talks. Helping me with my understanding immensely. Be blessed!

[GizmoMaltese]

This is one of the most interesting videos I've ever seen. But the final step in his journey towards truth is accepting that matter is not "real" in the sense that it does exist independent of mind.

[zoeitzaify]

Thank you for making this video, I have found it to be very informative and enjoyable to watch. I didn't realise it was your first on this channel until I subscribed. I hope you make more.

[Ruken]

I've been showing this to people who are interested in the twin slit experiment for years now.

[Urix]

Organisms take in needed sensory information, compute and act in a way to increase propagation rates. So computation is using information inputs to form a result. Communicated information is just influence for interaction, influence and response. So physical interaction is analogous to informational influence and is information. Generally speaking, the Cosmos knows everything since it is in a state which will lead to all it's future states. It is all-powerful because it is everything, and what happens is its will.

[nynnewk]

Whos names did he say in the beginning of the video? 🙂

[david]

Fascinating presentation. He really expresses these ideas very well.
However for me sentience is not equivalent to consciousness.

[DrBrainTickler]

I think "you" will be interested in what I do. ;-) So would Neil Theise. #transhumanpsychologist #transhumanpsychology

[modvs]

If a theory of x makes no deference to your agency with respect to x then what value, other than merely intellectual (and/or social) does it have? Until any of these theories (of consciousness) make any difference to how we can control/dictate our goal directed interactions with the phenomena that the theory is alleged to be about, then I would remain skeptical. The guy's a liver pathologist (M.D.); he of all people should understand this. I think these well educated, successful professionals get bored at some late point in their careers and decide to veer off into speculative territory, backed by the wiles of their previous academic and institutional achievements. Stuart Hameroff is another example. What ever turns a dime I guess.

[ChiltonWebb]

This background music really distracts from the video.