The measurement problem. And of course, the chicken or egg argument. If we're here, then what's the source. It cannot be logical/natural. It must be a simulation. These and the book - holographic universe by Michael Talbot.
@@mrbullmrbull Guess I need some more whitesplaining over here to understand how reality works. Send me the keys to the ivory tower, see you there when I get beamed up with my meta space travel suit and first world problems.
I had a 3-year relationship with a woman who, a week after telling me she adored me and that we had an amazing connection, ghosted me and ran off with another guy. That's how I came to understand narcissists. If you've ever been through something like that, VR doesn't scare you anymore. Finding out that what you thought was real was actually faked can happen in the "real" world.
NICE VIDEO.... I HAVE BEEN TRADING FOR MONTHS NOW. I KEEP MAKING MORE LOSS THAN PROFIT. IS IT THE SIGNALS OR DO I TRADE WRONG COINS. PLS 😔 I NEED SOME KIND OF ASSISTANCE OR ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO.
Ever since I tried VR few years ago I have started reflecting and changing my perspective and trying to use my mind and my experience to figure out or understand more about the nature of reality and consciousness. I mastered dream world at a young age because I preferred to sleep rather than deal with stress of reality. Sleep was my escape. Every movie that I remember from 1980s to present I would fall asleep during movies or else I would look at movies and look for lessons I can extrapolate and use to improve myself. I would miss majority of plot but would look for the moral of the story. Nothing could compare to physically going through the seemingly easy or difficult life struggles. I have now understand the saying “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” on several levels including a much deeper level than i could before
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Who's this professional everyone is talking about I always see her post on top comment on every RU-vid video I watched I think I am interested how can I get in touch with Mrs Sophia
To the *incredible person* that's seeing this, I wish you all the best in life❤ don't over blame yourself, accept things and go forward. Don't let others define what “success” is for you. Get up, learn the skills needed and get after it, all the keys to a happy life is in your hands. Keep pushing.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
I accepted consciousness as a fundamental part of the universe. As above so below. Our consciousness is multi dimensional. You can perceive the 1st dim. A single point. 2nd 2 points on a plane. 3rd 2d planes stacked together. 4th 3d objects moving through spacetime. 5th .parallel universe's stacked on top of each other. And the "power" is choosing which reality you want. Combined with congruence you can find yourself in some amazing or scary places. that's my theory right now though. Idk I also think the universe is some sort of living creature and the point of life is to organize all the matter in space Just specalatin
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
My brother studied theoretical physics and we’ve had long conversations about the mystery of consciousness and why there is even an “observer” to watch the movie in our head. It does seem to have gradation. There’s different levels of consciousness even throughout our life we can increase it with study and mindful practices. Consciousness is the degree to which we can be self-reflecting.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
I agree, I think consciousness is intrinsic like basic elements that make up reality. If the chemical structure is complex enough then consciousness starts to grow and the more complex a biological system is the bigger it’s consciousness and self awareness. I think self awareness is the byproduct, like an inevitable outcome of complexity and connections.
Is our body a VR device we wear to play earth game? I just wish this game was less painful and with less suffering ... not only for me, but also for others as seeing other people's pain and suffering makes me suffer too ...
I liken simulation theory to turtle theory: the universe exists on the back of a turtle, and it’s turtles all the way down. Our only solid evidence of existence is our internal thought life-our consciousness. Whether that exists “in reality” or “in simulation” is a semantic point in my opinion. If it’s a simulation, what hosts the simulation? Who programmed it? Do they also exist in a meta simulation? What does simulation even mean? Finally, does it somehow diminish, marginalize or invalidate this reality?
Yes. I love your question about what is the host reality that precedes the simulation? To me this begins look like the assertion of god creating the universe. It becomes a potential infinite loop of then who created x...and so on.
@@lopezjraul to me, I find the idea of no higher intelligence harder to accept than a creator because the simple existence of reality seems peculiar otherwise. It truly seems far too much like a construct when we merely consider the immense number of physical constants or ratios (collectively parameters) that must be exquisitely tuned (to as-yet humanly irreproducible levels of precision) in order for the universe to operate and life to exist. The probability that these 33 values would all exist within the necessary tolerances by chance is the smallest probability I have ever encountered being no more than 1 in 10^3600, (that’s 1 chance out of 1 followed by 3600 zeroes). The parameters I know about (i.e. why they matter) are as follows: *strong nuclear force constant if larger: no hydrogen would form; atomic nuclei for most life-essential elements would be unstable; thus, no life chemistry if smaller: no elements heavier than hydrogen would form: again, no life chemistry *weak nuclear force constant if larger: too much hydrogen would convert to helium in big bang; hence, stars would convert too much matter into heavy elements making life chemistry impossible if smaller: too little helium would be produced from big bang; hence, stars would convert too little matter into heavy elements making life chemistry impossible *gravitational force constant if larger: stars would be too hot and would burn too rapidly and too unevenly for life chemistry if smaller: stars would be too cool to ignite nuclear fusion; thus, many of the elements needed for life chemistry would never form *electromagnetic force constant if greater: chemical bonding would be disrupted; elements more massive than boron would be unstable to fission if lesser: chemical bonding would be insufficient for life chemistry *ratio of electromagnetic force constant to gravitational force constant if larger: all stars would be at least 40% more massive than the sun; hence, stellar burning would be too brief and too uneven for life support if smaller: all stars would be at least 20% less massive than the sun, thus incapable of producing heavy elements *ratio of electron to proton mass if larger: chemical bonding would be insufficient for life chemistry if smaller: same as above *ratio of number of protons to number of electrons if larger: electromagnetism would dominate gravity, preventing galaxy, star, and planet formation if smaller: same as above *expansion rate of the universe if larger: no galaxies would form if smaller: universe would collapse, even before stars formed entropy level of the universe if larger: stars would not form within proto-galaxies if smaller: no proto-galaxies would form *mass density of the universe if larger: overabundance of deuterium from big bang would cause stars to burn rapidly, too rapidly for life to form if smaller: insufficient helium from big bang would result in a shortage of heavy elements *velocity of light if faster: stars would be too luminous for life support if slower: stars would be insufficiently luminous for life support *age of the universe if older: no solar-type stars in a stable burning phase would exist in the right (for life) part of the galaxy if younger: solar-type stars in a stable burning phase would not yet have formed *initial uniformity of radiation if more uniform: stars, star clusters, and galaxies would not have formed if less uniform: universe by now would be mostly black holes and empty space *average distance between galaxies if larger: star formation late enough in the history of the universe would be hampered by lack of material if smaller: gravitational tug-of-wars would destabilize the sun's orbit *density of galaxy cluster if denser: galaxy collisions and mergers would disrupt the sun's orbit if less dense: star formation late enough in the history of the universe would be hampered by lack of material *average distance between stars if larger: heavy element density would be too sparse for rocky planets to form if smaller: planetary orbits would be too unstable for life *fine structure constant (describing the fine-structure splitting of spectral lines) if larger: all stars would be at least 30% less massive than the sun if larger than 0.06: matter would be unstable in large magnetic fields if smaller: all stars would be at least 80% more massive than the sun *decay rate of protons if greater: life would be exterminated by the release of radiation if smaller: universe would contain insufficient matter for life *12C to 16O nuclear energy level ratio if larger: universe would contain insufficient oxygen for life if smaller: universe would contain insufficient carbon for life *ground state energy level for 4He if larger: universe would contain insufficient carbon and oxygen for life if smaller: same as above *decay rate of 8Be if slower: heavy element fusion would generate catastrophic explosions in all the stars if faster: no element heavier than beryllium would form; thus, no life chemistry *ratio of neutron mass to proton mass if higher: neutron decay would yield too few neutrons for the formation of many life-essential elements if lower: neutron decay would produce so many neutrons as to collapse all stars into neutron stars or black holes *initial excess of nucleons over anti-nucleons if greater: radiation would prohibit planet formation if lesser: matter would be insufficient for galaxy or star formation *polarity of the water molecule if greater: heat of fusion and vaporization would be too high for life if smaller: heat of fusion and vaporization would be too low for life; liquid water would not work as a solvent for life chemistry; ice would not float, and a runaway freeze-up would result *supernovae eruptions if too close, too frequent, or too late: radiation would exterminate life on the planet if too distant, too infrequent, or too soon: heavy elements would be too sparse for rocky planets to form *white dwarf binaries if too few: insufficient fluorine would exist for life chemistry if too many: planetary orbits would be too unstable for life if formed too soon: insufficient fluorine production if formed too late: fluorine would arrive too late for life chemistry *ratio of exotic matter mass to ordinary matter mass if larger: universe would collapse before solar-type stars could form if smaller: no galaxies would form *number of effective dimensions in the early universe if larger: quantum mechanics, gravity, and relativity could not coexist; thus, life would be impossible if smaller: same result *number of effective dimensions in the present universe if smaller: electron, planet, and star orbits would become unstable if larger: same result *mass of the neutrino if smaller: galaxy clusters, galaxies, and stars would not form if larger: galaxy clusters and galaxies would be too dense *big bang ripples if smaller: galaxies would not form; universe would expand too rapidly if larger: galaxies/galaxy clusters would be too dense for life; black holes would dominate; universe would collapse before life-site could form *size of the relativistic dilation factor if smaller: certain life-essential chemical reactions will not function properly if larger: same result *uncertainty magnitude in the Heisenberg uncertainty principle if smaller: oxygen transport to body cells would be too small and certain life-essential elements would be unstable if larger: oxygen transport to body cells would be too great and certain life-essential elements would be unstable *cosmological constant if larger: universe would expand too quickly to form solar-type stars
I know we live in a simulation but what sucks is the fact that we incarnate back over n over n over again and we have our memories wiped each time but some people remember living the exact same life and some people have glimpses such as deja vu and what isn't fair is the fact that how are we supposed to learn and grow if we never get the chance to if our memories are wiped each time? Earth is a simulation prison hell but the fact that we have to keep doing it for an evil thing we've done and never get the chance to change and learn is unfair big time.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
This is all a pretty complicated thing we've put ourselves into, which is a game of sorts in the big picture of it all. We are just beings of energy flowing in an infinite spac,e, now currently having an human experience. We've all created life as we know it to take adventures and explore, have fun, experience emotions and feelings, etc. We're all creators of a multiverse, there are so many planets we can imagine, probably an infinite amount., with different environments unlike our own. This is the truth whether you want to believe it or not, everyone of us experiences it we can live many different lives other than our own its our choice and always has been, it was your choice to be here and now wherever you may be. Knowing the true state of existence, I believe, is such a beautiful thing its so awe inspiring I hope you have a great rest of your life wherever you are in the world brother/sieter or whatever you identify with!
Thanks for creating this content. I had an experience where I became aware of a space that was more real than this one...it only lasted about 1 min but felt like I was there for years. Despite that, I do believe our essence is wise & wouldn't make the effort to be conscious here unless there was a purpose for it.
@@drkaushikt6926 Sure. I could feel myself losing my identity after using cannabis. I was scared but I was also fascinated. Then I became "disconnected" from my body. I entered a space that had timelines & my consciousness was trying to find my body. Maybe it was the 4th dimension...I'm not sure. On my channel, it is explained in the video "Timeless space". That world was complete peace & more real than this one. When I became conscious again, I was upset that I couldn't be there longer.
@@kavistone6951 Whether it's an OD or not is irrelevant to how I experienced a space that was more real than anything I've experienced before. I wouldn't claim to know what someone has experienced unless I was there.
Our consciousness constructs and also compartmentalizes our reality to keep us safe. So much of perception is expectation, so protect yourselves, little ones, and dream sweet dreams.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
I have the grand unified theory that combines the known laws of physics with consciousness. It was known by the father of quantum mechanics, Max Planck, when he stated the following: "I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." Consciousness is FUNDAMENTAL. As Max Planck states, everything derives from consciousness.
I´ve been asking myself this question: supposed that we are actually, at this moment, living in 1 of an infinite number of simulations, competing against each other to get to a stable state of present: where are all these infinite simulations stored in this universal computer? The speed of light + quantized time & space do suggest that there´s an upper limit to the "CPU" running the simulation, but what about the memory? Also the memories & thoughts of every conscious being out there should also be saved somewhere, right? "Infinity" is a very irritating concept to grasp....
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
As David said, the idea of consciousness is not dependent on reality vs simulation and even reality is a simulation, which may or may not include our consciousness. Imo the better question is if our consciousness is separate or an aspect of the Sim.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
wow time flies David got OLDER ..........:) still makes more sense than most humans thank you Tom you have the best guest and ask the best questions appreciate your insights candor and open minded attitude
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
if you introduce simulation theory into the equation, and think of it as a sort of program "compiler" of all of the various laws of the universe, you could suddenly explain virtually everything in life that is hard to understand or believe relatively easily. The variables of our life could just be code, and the program execution could end up being the "grand unyifing theory" a sort of executable program of the specific code paramaters in the simulation that bring everything together and manifest consciouness. The master code writer ends up being "God" the creator, and our life expierence ends up being the net results of the specific code parameters. Which we would then percieve thru our thoughts as "reality".
Dr. Giulio Tononi is Professor of Psychiatry, Distinguished Professor in Consciousness Science, the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness. His laboratory studies consciousness and its disorders as well as the mechanisms and functions of sleep. Dr. Tononi’s main contribution in the study of consciousness has been the development of the integrated information theory. This is a comprehensive theory of what consciousness is, what determines its quantity and quality, and how it emerges from causal structures such as neural networks. The theory provides a parsimonious account of many neuropsychological observations, among them why certain parts of the brain give rise to experience and others do not, why consciousness vanishes during slow wave sleep and seizures despite continuing neural activity, and how unconscious processes interact with conscious ones. The theory has implications for the unfolding of consciousness across development and phylogeny, and predicts which ingredients are necessary and sufficient to construct sentient machines. With regard to the study of sleep, Dr. Tononi’s main contribution has been the development of a comprehensive hypothesis about the function of sleep, the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis. According to the hypothesis, sleep serves to renormalize synaptic strength, counterbalancing a net increase of synaptic strength due to plasticity during wakefulness. Without sleep, such progressive increase in synaptic strength would lead to unsustainable costs in terms of energy, space, cellular supplies, and would saturate the ability to learn. In short, sleep is the price to pay for plasticity during wakefulness
If you want to get a "real" peek behind the curtain. For what our future might look like. Checkout the Altered Carbon Netflix series. You can watch the first three to four episodes of season one. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time. Awesome content Tom. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! 💯
I should have been a philosopher, I’ve thought about every single thing that talked about exactly how Chalmers describes it. Also I’m really surprised neither one of them mentioned the movie Total Recall. They mention the matrix and Truman show, but Total Recall was exactly about being implanted into virtual world and fake memories and fake wife who you thought you loved.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
E=MC2 - Albert Einstein Meaning everything is energy just in different states/forms... Given the right circumstances anything can be conscious. I think the more relevant questions will be more like how many types of consciousness are there? And like you discussed, is everything consciousness or a form of? Perhaps the first states of concessions is the idea of something and then it 'being'. And then we have a sort of chicken or the egg question. But maybe an idea doesn't have to be limited to the brain, how can we prove otherwise? 0 is much more than just 0. Just because it doesn't exist doesn't mean it has no journey or story in to show, 0 also equals 1-1 and 2-2 and so on. Could this be classed as an idea? What we do know is that nothing's certain, everything is probability and having infinate states allow for a lot of space for error. Showing maybe how something could come from nothing, accidentally (if you will). Just a thought.
Tests and safe buttons. Perhaps, in an intermittent announcement reminding you, "This is only a simulation." Will be interesting to see where it all goes.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
so how would the answer to the Q at around 42:00 ) ( we can no more answer the question of how a similated person would similate a birth and a life and a death... ( how do you die in a similation? ( chuckles * ) however.. ) there are really no more great mysteries then how we really know our own conciseness 0.o-) ( speaking as someone who.. ( had 1/3 of his brain removed by surgery center-from brain stem. ) i act a great deal like a human being but, (who knows if i know what other's feel?) ( However Ken Wilber's Integral, Spiral Dynamics .. ( has a whole quadrent of concsiousness that goes all the way down the 'chain of evilution etc) however you then have to contemplate all the other quadrants that everything else exists in as well, plurallism./ cultural for all levels.. because it will exist.
So we are just code inside of a computer? Nothing is real? Not my family or my friends. How could anyone keep on living life knowing that? This made me fucking depressed…
Prior to the physical existence of all matter was the vibration or frequency of love which is the essence of what our culture refers to as God, intelligent infinity gave itself the free will to experience the positive and negative polarities of the physical world in order to experience it itself authentically without infringement of free will. Simulation theory or actual base reality are one in the same as it’s further experience for the one infinite creator which sees all as one expression of unique consciousness fractured Into a hologram that every portion is represented in the hole as above so below
Tom Campbell is a physicist/philosopher who is right in line with guys like Chalmers and Hoffman. I think you'd have a really good conversation with him!
What if we keep repeating the same life over and over, could be the explanation of deja vu being that we have already lived what we are experiencing in the present
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
You are correct in that estimation. I experience this myself. I am presently trying to break my cycle. I've been witnessing past lives too frequently over the course of this last year. I believe we may be living in a simulation as well. I'm certain that we live in a multiverse.
@@shawngates953 I am not sure that there is anything one can do. I'm a bum stuck on the side of the highway. I was here in my last life. In a life before that I travelled further down the highway, maybe even to the next state, that I don't know. But after seeing my ends so many times, and seeing this sh!thole of a situation that I'm in again this time around I'm now trying to sit the rest of this out. Our lives simply play out over and over and over with only minor changes in this life from the last one. I have been homeless on the run far too many times. My family has been in danger far too many times. This life is not worth any amount of enlightenment nor 'God's 'grace'' if you ask me. It's like being made to eat sh!t (and die) only then to be promised a cupcake (that's likely full of sh!t).
The problem with the question of, "Are we in a simulation or not?" is similar to the question of whether god exists or not. It' a bit unfalsifiable and though fun to question and speculate IMO not the more important question to answer. Tom I think you think about this a lot but the simulation that matter to me is the one we create for ourselves through our nexus of perceptions about reality. Whether we are in a simulation or in physical reality projecting our experience through consciousness arising from neuronic integration there is always an element of simulation. We never have a perfect knowledge of reality and we rely on constructs of reality called beliefs. Beliefs are the seemingly inevitable web of the matrix we build for ourselves through our interaction between consciousness and physical reality intercepting. I don't discount we might be in an actual simulation like virtual reality but we don't even need to be there in order to apply tools to transcend the matrix. So, back to the point which is how do we transcend our beliefs better and know better should be our ultimate aim at the same time how do we construct an awesome experience. These two fundamental components will create a fulfilling and successful life. It could be said the reverse is true as well, that the primary aim should be to have a great experience if that is the fundamental true thing and beyond that striving to know more and operate within that knowing is secondary.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
@yamesotericist4188 why did you feel the need to cut and paste your response in multiple comments? Could you not come up with your own ideas? Google rat!
The Prasangika Madyamika view needs to be studied and understood to understand consciousness properly and the reality of our existence.Consciousness is not fundamental, it merely exists and arises in dependence on causes and conditions. You need to check out the Mind and Life series to understand this point of view better. It might help.
Consciousness may well be an emotion or complex or enhanced sensation. It may well be that consciousness is not that special or outside the realm of non-subjective awareness
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
Why wasn't my identical twin born instead of me? What is this me, this self? I never existed and will never exist again, so why now? After I cease to exist, it will be as if I had never existed.
Why can't consciousness just be data? The storing and manipulation of data. When I think about what I am experiencing as consciousness it all comes down to data, everything, it's all data. You can even swap the two words 'consciousness' and 'data' in a sentence and it still means the same. I think consciousness is often mixed up with awareness of your surroundings and yourself. If you do not have awareness of yourself and your surroundings (like a laptop doesn't), then you are not conscious. I don't see that. Self awareness and awareness of your surroundings is just extra data, it's just a higher form of consciousness. I think we need to try to understand what it is like to BE something when it comes to consciousness. THIS (what we are all experiencing) is what it is like to BE a working human brain .... and I don't mean this is what it is like to be something else experiencing what it is like to be a human brain. There's not two of us, only one, just the brain, this is what it is like to BE a working human brain.
The assumption that there is something rather than nothing is not quite right. There can be something and nothing simultaneously at the same time and place. It's like Shrodinger's cat but with only one observable state. We observe the something by chance, and the nothingness is not observable anyway, so here we are.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
Consciousness is fundamental and OUTSIDE of space-time. The sooner that is accepted by more scientists the faster a viable theory can be produced. For a far better explanation (theory), check out the work of Dr Donald Hoffman. He and his team are on the cutting-edge of this particular science.
But are the characters experiencing themselves/conscious or are they just figments of the game for players to control and experience. I’m sure it’s the latter. In our games I’m sure that mario and bowser arent conscious.
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Maybe consciousness is the will, beyond automatic subconscious evolution driven biology, of which the sole purpose is to survive and reproduce, perhaps it’s the “will” that interacts and affects the outside world, molds it, sculpts it, creates it, and enjoys it. The will can only come from a sense of “I”, and the others, the outside world. A will to persist, to engage, to fight on despite all set backs, to love unconditionally, to express oneself. The will is consciousness. The will is God.
Descartes; Q: How do I know I am not dreaming right now, How do I know I am not being fooled right now? Answer: I know something about myself: I know that I am thinking, I am conscious, he said 'I think, therefore I am.' 18:45
That only answers that there is a thing he calls himself which is consciousness and that consciousness is aware of itself. It doesn't say anything about the reality that consciousness is coming from. So, he could still be dreaming or being fooled yet conscious. "I think, therefore I am" is an assertion of existence in the realm of immaterial not the realm of the material. He speaks of his existence as the thing that is conscious. Similar you might say to the Buddhist conception of "I Am". The ego is an illusion but the observer/awareness of the ego is the true self. The problem with consciousness is it seems to arise out of our brain matter yet we cannot be sure of this and fundamentally it could the consciousness precedes this reality which would be the simulation in that case. My question is if we are in a simulation what "reality" is in another realm where our consciousness is being harnessed from? Is that not a physical reality that must exist preceding consciousness in that other realm? This could go into the whole absurdum ad infinitum of logic around this universe being created by a god. But, then the question arises, "Who created god?", and "who created the creator of god?" and so on and so on.
Assuming we are in a simulation then we can only know the universe to the extent that the simulation parameters are discoverable by the program that governs our simulated brains. In other words… If those simulation parameters require an understanding of parameters outside of the simulation (in order to explore them further) then our consciousness or what we like to think of as “consciousness” is only within the context of the simulation itself and that creates an inherent limitation. Therefore we are not conscience in a true sense but only conscience within the context of our limited existence. We might take this analogy to a spiritual level and come to the conclusion that only God is truly conscience and the only creator of this simulation. In this sense, it can no longer be a simulation (as we define “simulation”) and is therefore rendered as our only reality as we can not match the consciousness of God.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
Non-dual(Advait) vedanta has dealt with the hard problem of consciousness thousands of years ago. I think considering consciousness as a product of mental processes is not going to lead anywhere. Instead thinking of consciousness as the fundamental reality might be a better path to take. As per Advaita anything that can be named is an object and is not our true nature and once one starts that process of elimination and what is left at the end is the subject and subject alone i.e; witness i.e; consciousness.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
Very existentialist! But why would an electronic simulation experience be more than a biological experience? A biological experience is far more complex and sophisticated? Polarization of conflict, be it simulator vs. experiencer or adult vs. its childhood programmer creates distress and conflict by assigning the question of why. Awareness creates choice and the illusion of control. Consciousness, peace and power come from accepting everything, letting go of illusions and living in the moment.
Chalmers! I love you, you're a rockstar of Philosophy....but there are no hard problems of consciousness, only linguistic confusion. Give up the ghost!
there certainly is a category error, but its psychotic to think it exists as an emergent within meat chunks. oh yeah plus it has nothing to do with actual science
At 16:50 didn’t you just prove consciousness? Every atom or molecule is just “being” until conscious awareness begins to organize it? Attention, observing, self reflection seem to be all parts of the puzzle… but I’m defo not smart enough for this…but I’d like to believe in our higher consciousness, from whence it came is a mystery
Proof is never more than acceptance of theory. Life is about adapting to change and proof one day will be the stepping stone for proof tomorrow. My question is this, and I'm not a tech: Where in the AI model do we fit "reward for accomplishment" or it's counterpart?
Man is not only matter, it takes spirit to observe something like consciousness. God first formed the human body and then put the spirit into it, the result of this union was a living being. And the Lord God formed the man (i.e., Adam's body) from the dust of the ground, then blew into his nostrils the life-giving breath (i.e., his spirit), and [thus] the man became a living person. Genesis 2:7
A simulation cannot replicate human sensory and consciousness to the degree we have. Also does not explain the physical embodiment of our self awareness in space.
Yes, it actually could. You can tell as you age - as your sensory inputs degrade, the way you interact with the world changes. Theoretically you can build a model that encapsulates everything you experience. Just not yet. :-);
@@Philusteen experiences yes however the proof that it isn't possible ever is the sensory adaptations built before puberty and during puberty no machine or v.r can duplicate that specificity
@@thart909 again, the operative word is "yet" (and no, I'm not advocating for it). It is absolutely within the realm of science to develop a memetic consciousness that evolves and processes like a human mind (puberty included, lol); the science fiction is that such a thing could exist today or even 20 years from now. 50? 100? Perhaps.
GREAT. BUT. Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm.? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!!
Even if the graphics became so realistic that they were indistinguishable from the real world, still such a game would be run on some device that would be located in our reality, it would not be the creation of a new world. Behind the device screen, the world would remain the same no matter how much the graphics would improve. God created the world and placed man on earth to seek and find God. This life is a test. He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. Acts 17:26-27