Neil Theise - Does Brain Make Mind? 

That was an excellent interview 👍

Took shrooms a few years ago and I during my trip I could taste colours like candy, see sound as strings of letters and background noise would merge into a symphony of music, colours and words. Eventually, it felt like my whole being merged into the world around me and I lost the concept of time and individuality. Felt like I was one with the universe. Lasted about 8 hours and I never got to experience it again.

this was magnificent.

I used to do audiovisual work in the 90s. You could accidentally plug sound into the video slot and the tv screen would interpret the waves- I knew then exactly what thisguy was explaining

Time: as been observed: NOW is not the same for everyone. Synesthesia is a gift, especially for artists, think Kandinsky.

I had a horrible migraine (not unusual for me) but this time every time I pictured colors I got a taste in my mouth. I still remember yellow and blue tasting what you'd imagine playdough to taste like. Never had that since.

Thank you for this! It was so great to watch. I have the exact same images of time as Neil. And just like him I have never thought that other people would not have the same. Only thing he didn’t mention is that the lines have a feel of spacial circularity to them, even though they are still straight lines with beginnings and ends 😀👍

I experienced synesthesia when I practiced deep meditation for a few days, where I sensed all stuffs are connected through oceanic field.. it lasted for around 10 days then disappeared... it was amazing feeling... I was on no drugs ... no prior expectations ... no religious beliefs at all which made me mesmerized... I looked into it but couldn't find any interpretation ... I guess quantum fluctuation has something to do with such phenomenon

Started video. Hit pause. Clicked in chatbox. Answer is: yes.

WOW. I didn’t know that synesthesia extended to that kind of thing. Maybe people aren’t being “obtuse” or stupid when I try to talk about how I see the universe. 🤔😳 I never got good grades and almost flunked school a few times. I had a D- average in high school… because I can’t learn how other people do. I always create a felt/seen working 3-d whole. Like a giant mnemonic palace encompassing the entire universe. Eventually I did spend 4 years in graduate school Phd program at Emory university. I only got in because despite my abysmal grades and not studying I got 99%-ile on college exams… I completed a master’s project and did all the coursework basically incredulous and trying to see if I was possibly wrong… I left because I didn’t agree with their, or anyone’s, assumptions… My model WORKS. True story-I have a sticker on my car that is Sanskrit for “To Prepare a Mind that is at one with the universe”. I don’t learn or memorize-I make my mind work like the universe-I would sit spacing off integrating knowledge and running the simulations -pushing octopus arms of thought-engines arranged fractally/holographically into the gaps in my knowledge to create a working whole. Now I find that it works as an “idea engine” and I can solve problems very well, or offer insights in almost any area of human endeavor. Except there’s no job for that, so I am just finishing writing another book. Living in my car. 😂 renting an office. Lol. Long story…. I have this thing where I think of something as a means to some larger truth, and I mention it in passing, and people with PhDs hear me and launch careers or write books on these “stepping stones”… I also predicted the last 30 years of intellectual progress of humanity almost in detail. Sometimes when people are busy not listening to me, they do something “revolutionary” which I proposed years before in the exact form their research takes. It has taken my top 1% IQ and made it like a creation engine. But it’s also made me invisible and quite frustrated when people with Nobel Prizes run off down wrong paths which I clearly see will not be fruitful. Now I am starting to understand that they don’t even see or think like I do!! I cannot imagine any other way! I loved this video so much-so eye-opening. ❤️🙏🏻 THANK YOU!! Also, there is another way to verify if a theory is correct-or a hypothesis… it’s called “does it fit with what everything else is saying in all areas of human inquiry, and with the way the universe works?” I am always amazed at the hypotheses that leave so much out. I used to think people were milking the public research trough… so to speak. Because it was so ignorant of extremely important extraneous variables. Maybe I am just a symptom of “self domesticated” de-evolution in humanity? That would kinda suck so I don’t like to believe that. Plus now we have genetic technology so we can reverse any such trend: So right now I am re-writing the history of the universe and human civilization and adding in all the missing stuff that is messing us up so that we can have a future. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Unfortunately they are going to have to re-write a lot of textbooks and stuff. People missed some big stuff.

Love the life’s you live

Isn't this "time wheel" not just a good metaphor to imagine time. I describe my thoughts mostly as a river. Where fish are my memory's some are vivid and easy to catch some are hard to catch. A metaphor...

I have time synesthesia too! Nobody I know experiences time like me- it’s like a roller coaster in months. A tube for weeks. And a holographic timeline in centuries/decades with and insane spread of my knowledge of history

I would go with wiring. Having taken drugs and experienced music color, time dilation, spacial deformity, definitely wiring.

Why does Robert Lanza is not yet interviewed?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Maybe Woo is out there somewhere outside of physical experience and that brain is channeling it very well.

Funny wiring it is. On to the next one.

I’ve king experienced numbers as having associated colors. So 8 is dark blue, 5 is light blue, 2 is yellow, for example. I never really thought about this before; it just seemed normal to me.

I did shrooms and acid regularly in my 20s. Can confirm that. Awesome experience

It just explains one of the thrillions or more mysteries of a brain processing information that is caught in a loop and continues repeating as long as no effective change modifies it. The brain registers in billions of a second informations even when we are sleeping, it never really rest. All our senses deliver soo much informations, most of us aren't aware of. Consciousness is the stuff made from picked up informations as a bridge for crossing the many flows of interpretations to be aware of.

More duality, are we particles or waves.

I'd like to know what an 'outer' mental capacity might be? Lawrence continues to reduce truth to rubble.

Synesthesia is real, but there are some dubious assumptions getting from THERE to a universal consciousness..

This so interesting. The Mayan time wheel may have been an invention of one such mind, life is amazing.

The brain as the difference maker, the differentiator, if consciousness is infinite. But then what is the mind? The part that separates us from the world and each other can not be the same part that communicates with each other through understanding the same world, can it? If the brain is the AM dial then is consciousness the button that can switch to FM or is mind the FM/AM button? Because getting "your wires crossed" in synesthesia implies your dial gets AM and FM: your brain is the source of synesthesia; but if the AM/FM button is switching back and forth then your mind is the source of synesthesia. On reconsideration it seems all I'm doing is reimposing finer states of differentiation and calling them brain and mind. I suppose then that as brain science has identified substructures in the brain such as the amygdala and hippocampus, so the people who study mind must further impose substructure there. Substructures other than the moral ones defined by Freud. Substructures of meaning, however that means. Musicians, painters, authors, engineers, chemists, biologists, mathematicians, pornographers..all the pursuers of popular and unpopular endeavors. Whether through the vanity of fame, fortune or logic the Eros of meaning inspires and consumes them all.

The problem is that thausands lights around, and notify them more difficult !

Brains have their own minds, all living beings have their own minds, all Living Beings is Eternal Life-Units.

Wish he was more skeptical/critical. Intentional or not, the synesthete who questioned him at the conference was fishing, just as charlatan 'psychics' do when giving a reading, for anything atypical. She had to find/invent something because she already declared him a synesthesiac.

Why can’t we be led by men like these.? I had a similar experience. Several actually. I can leave my body. I choose not to. But I was sunburned badly. It was agonizing. I meditated and did what this gent talks about. It was somewhat different than other times that I left my body. It seemed as if there were two of me. One with pain and one without. I was the one without. As I recall there was zero pain in the white light. God is real.

Anything can be percieved very many ways. All equally true but not equally useful. I wish that my perception of numbers is a better calculator than my internal dialogue. Neurons add and multiply all the time, how is my brain not in that perception.

Not sure how this interview relates to the title... does the "wiring or the brain" affect mind and consciousness? Obviously... but that hardly establishes causality.

NTS: nok/30/curious

using the only knowledge we know so far, the only possible answer seems to be it must be from brain, and million neuron interactions that gives rise the emergence of subjective experience. the only missing, is the detail, or our capability to account all the parameters that happen in neuron interaction. BUT be careful with this narrative, this is same like before quantum theory happen that people believe the only thing physics leave over is the detail of microscopic world, if we know the detail, we will know everything. this attitude eventually becomes crumble in the eye of evidence that kept showing to destroy your basic classical physics (i.e quantum phenomena), scientist are speechless. now we have same problem with MIND, we THINK we know that the only left is the detail of neuron interaction, but the correct attitude is to open the question to the realm beyond materialism-science, so we do not follow same attitude as people who think physics is done in the last 19th century. this is important, since if you really think deeply that subjective experience that you we all experienced is EXTREMELY unique phenomena that is hardly to undersstand just simply using materialism-science.

Remember Occams Razor. Different radios can tune into same radio station. More than one person can not tune into same, external consciousness. Why assume or theorize more complicated explaination. Affecting (e.g. drug or anasthesia) the brain (tuner in the above theory) can change the conscious experiences of that brain. And it can be restored by removing that affect. A permanent change due to injury can make permanent effect on brain and consciousness. Consciousness is not a thing. It is a name given to some of the things brains do.

The most awkward conversation robert had ever

2:26 mark this dude said the woman recognized him like gaydar‼️🤦🏻‍♂️

i must admit i found this question really stupid, now that I saw the video, I still think the question is very stupid.

The entropic brain principle Dr robin carhart-harris

He says that it could be argued that, but then he just asserts without any argument. Fail.

Brain does NOT make mind. Mind and consciousness is more than brain, and there is evidence out there for this, one has to do years of studying to recognise this, and KEEP an OPEN MIND.

Would it not be more reasonable to assume that whatever chemical process which is responsible for hallucinogenic experiences in human brains is more naturally prevalent in synasthetes? I'm sorry, but I think that Robert Lawrence Kuun has parted ways with reasonable scientific enquiry quite some time ago.

What if our brains just works as radio antennas that receive consciousness from a bigger, unified source? Cool to think about that!

'Brain makes mind', that's the story my mind makes.

*SADHGURU* Have him as a guest. He will will tell you the correct answer to EVERY question u have.

Mis-wiring? You’re telling me that the obvious answer is that when someone sees colors when music plays, they have a *mis-wiring* ? It seems like it would make for a much richer experience of music, and of life. In my opinion, anyone WITHOUT this ability has a mis-wiring, myself included!

The activity in the brain produces the mind. It involves the life force in the cells of the heart, nervous system and brain interacting for consciousness and the mind to emerge. It takes a force, chemistry and electrical energy. The brain is merely the vessel as the center of consciousness and of the mind. The force of life is not a force of physics.

Now I'm going to have stupid fucking wheels in my head every time-related thought. Thanks, Professor Egghead.

No

"... infinite and transduced by our brain..." my as!

What is the mind?

Psychedelic drugs need to be studied clinically. They have immense potential for understanding mental states.

Eeekkk

Ka is a wheel.

No.

If consciousness is outside the brain, then our consciousness doesn’t die with the body.

Un-making brains seems to un-make minds, so, seems like it, yeah.

for me, this is the weakest explanation of brain//mind---a friend says at orgasm, he feels his toes flying off---we all laughed---then i read:--the sensory in the brain of toes, is right next to the sexual organ sensories.

So, the true reality, is the one you experience when you have a neurological condition or you're on psychedelics - makes sense! HAHAHHAAA!

No. It doesn't.

Consciousness is not outside. It's inside. It's the internal energy that activates the heart and all the other organs and organelles, included the brain.

There are only the 5 sheaths. Mind is 1 sheath. Called as the mental body. Mind is not located in the brain any more than it is located in the thumb nail. If you could simply experience the mental body, you you would know this is true. Yoga is the way.

Complete nonsense. This belongs in a Deepak conference not here. It's obvious that people like Neil and the woman he spoke of just want to feel special and have some super power. There might be some who do have the ability to see colors where there are none. but I bet this is a very rare condition. And the part where the woman said she can "sense" other Synesthesiacs was just a dressed up form of "I can see your "Aura" . Something popular in the 80's.

Try dmt. You'll experience synesthesia

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Light is not fast

Does butt make poop?

lol. Neil's a Deepak woo co-conspirator.

He's out of his mind lolol

Men seem to have ALL the answers to life's deepest questions and mysteries...

Brain making mind is like puppet making master