The Mystery of Consciousness: Origin, Nature & Theories of Subjective Experience & Self Awareness

What is consciousness? How does it originate? Why does it seem to be a trait primarily found in some living organisms with relatively complex brains? How does the brain generate the feeling of existence? Why each of us has our own inner universe? How does the functioning of the 86 billion brain cells create this seemingly meta-physical realm of thoughts and emotions? Does it all come from some precise arrangements of cell connections in the brain?

Is there an aspect of consciousness that can’t be explained by physical facts alone?
Is it an intrinsic aspect of nature that exists beyond the physical laws?
Being human and having subjective experiences is a truly remarkable and privileged experience, but what if this extraordinary experience expands beyond biological entities? Could there be also an experience comparable to being a star or a planet?

Where does consciousness originate? When it begins? Why does it exist within us? Why does it exist at all?

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
04:44 Physicalism
08:25 Emergentism
10:41 Self-organization
14:20 Entropy
17:30 Panpsychism
28:13 (IIT) Integrated information theory
33:34 (IIT) Essential properties of consciousness
35:41 (IIT) Unconscious states
37:41 (IIT) Simulating, cloning, mind uploading
41:10 (IIT) Review & criticisms
43:36 Conclusion

Major sources:
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Papers:
Philosophy of Mind: Physicalism
Barbara Gail Montero

The Hope and Horror of Physicalism: An Existential Treatise
Christopher Devlin Brown

Statistical mechanics of consciousness: Maximization of information content of network is associated with conscious awareness
R. Guevara Erra, D. M. Mateos, R. Wennberg, and J. L. Perez Velazquez

Integrated information structure collapses with anesthetic loss of conscious arousal in Drosophila melanogaster

Brain basis of self: self-organization and lessons from dreaming
David Kahn

Books:
Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
Giulio Tononi

The Character of Consciousness (Philosophy of Mind)
David J. Chalmers

Is Consciousness Everywhere?: Essays on Panpsychism (Journal of Consciousness Studies)
Philip Goff, Alex Moran, Annaka Harris, Christof Koch, Anil Seth, Galen Strawson

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[Disculogic]

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[robgau]

I rather think that matter arises from consciousness, not the other way around.

[SuperLuminalElf]

The (Human) Brain doesn’t generate Consciousness; it HOSTS it: the Brain is a uniquely powerful Biocomputer that MIND .. Consciousness .. utilzes whilst a Human Being inhabits a Body

[KingBritish]

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[mabaker]

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[micheldisclafani]

Consciousness is the tool that nature gives every living creature to be able to function in and with reality. I speak by personal experience, presently I am 86 but I remember clearly the instant when I woke up from the lethargic sleep of the baby and felt, in awakening, reality, beautiful and all there for me. I was then nine months old, my mother told me. Consciousness is created by nature in the conceived and growing creature. We must not make consciousness transcendental, it is, like the function all our organs, the function of all the body in order to be able to deal with reality, with life. Thank you for reading.

[JohnDerhammer]

I must confess that mankind did change abruptly with the development of introspective contemplation. To go from hunter/gatherers to philosophical logicians was a quantum leap.

[rockapedra]

Very thorough and well made. Plus a very soothing voice ;-)

[Eraserhedd]

Another phenomenal examination of a complex topic.

[dmtdreamz]

If your consciousness becomes high enough, the present moment will be metaphysically recontextualized as outside of time, as you will realize that time is imaginary. When you become conscious that time is imaginary your present experience will become Eternal and Absolute. Motion will still happen, but motion will not be situated in the conceptual matrix of "time", it will be Eternal. You will realize that your Consciousness has always been Eternal. In other words, you have been Conscious forever.

Believe it or not, Consciousness is so powerful that right now you are dreaming that you have not been conscious forever. Consciousness is powerful enough to dream its own finitude, its own beginning and end. When you realize that you have been dreaming the beginning and end of your consciousness, you will realize that actually you have been conscious forever, and that will be the moment you will know yourself as God.

Human consciousness is just a tiny island within an infinite ocean of CONSCIOUSNESS. Beyond the human island there is an alien island, and more islands beyond that. Islands floating in INFINITY. Death is the transcendence of the human island to explore the larger ocean.

[Will-me]

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[THFLCNx]

I do sort of tend towards a panpsychic outlook. We know that there are levels of consciousness; a human is conscious of their world and their self which beholds the world, a dog is conscious of their world but not their self which beholds it, and even a plant has some dim awareness by which it moves towards the light which nourishes it. I think I.I.T. does provide a good solution to the problem. An emergent quality could only emerge from elements which already contain the potential for it.

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[rockapedra]

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[keiwo_tritiyos_muketo]

Found the word panpsychism a year or so ago after reaching that conclusion on my own using logic and rationale many many years ago...<now> I get the small amount of experience in a particle.

[Naidu-km]

Our brains are the microbial version of our universe in microbial parts per brain. That's how the universe is using humans to recreate itself after it went KaBoom first, then Boom Bang a Bang.

[Biggus_Diggus]

Whoever made this video has created a true masterpiece in the digital world!!! Well made, great content with an awesome music choice. Thank you. This will be a repeat multiple watch.

[markmaloney]

Memory is the source of consciousness. When babies are born, they appear to be conscious, but they are not; they're exhibiting autonomic responses to environmental stimuli. As they experience things in life, they start building memories, and the more conscious they become. It takes years to acquire enough memory to become fully conscious. Another term for consciousness is ‘awareness.’ Without memory, you wouldn't know (be aware of) what things are. Memory is the heart of consciousness…

[mrnoblemonkey]

It seems we are finally starting to understand the dao.

[bettusascaino]

As babies we don’t differentiate from the environment, our mother and everything else is one thing. It takes a long time to see ourselves different or individuals and see others as such. I think it takes experiencing others to be able to see ourselves and viceversa. It takes us a life to separate from the world to at the end realise we are nothing in isolation.
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