Is consciousness God? And where is it located?

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Is consciousness god? What is consciousness? And Where is it located?
We tend to treat our consciousness as a mystery, perhaps even as a supernatural quality of being human. Something that might even be divine, connecting us to a higher power. But could the source of consciousness really just all be contained in the neurons, synapses and other connections within our brain?
New research seems to point us to one of these directions.
What is it that makes it so mystical for us. What is consciousness?
No one knows for sure, but scientists seem to agree that consciousness has to involve the integration of activity from several brain networks, allowing us to perceive our surroundings.
It integrates all our sensory inputs - sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste as one single unifying experience rather than isolated sensory perceptions.
It connects us to our present, memories of our past…and to our emotions into a single ego-centric perception. All these things shape our perception of who we are, and what we believe to be the world around us.
Even if we don’t know what it is, can we at least find out WHERE it is? Just days before he died in July 2004, Francis Crick, who co-discovered the structure of DNA, was working on a paper that suggested that our consciousness needs some kind of conductor to put all external stimuli and internal perceptions together
He hypothesized that this conductor would need to rapidly integrate information from different parts of the brain and put them into a whole. For example, if you are sitting outside and you smell a neighbor’s barbeque, you might instantly be able to imagine the kind of food he is cooking. You may remember its name, its texture and its taste instantly. And you may even recall any past experiences, memories and emotions associated with the smell of that barbecue. All these things happen instantly.
Crick suggested that the claustrum - a thin, sheet-like structure that lies hidden deep inside the brain - is perfectly suited for this job. Well, 10 years later, in a 2014 study, scientists at George Washington University in Washington, DC were trying to manage a patient’s epileptic seizures.
After trying many different treatments unsuccessfully, they tried a long shot. They put a probe near this woman’s claustrum. When they stimulated it, the woman’s consciousness seemed to completely turn off.
She stopped reading and stared blankly into space, she didn’t respond to auditory or visual commands and her breathing slowed.
This was not like being in a coma or going to sleep. She just simply stared into space, with seemingly no perception of the world around her. Almost as if a switch had been turned off.
As soon as the stimulation stopped, she immediately regained consciousness but had no memory of the event. The claustrum may be like the light switch in your house. It can turn consciousness on or off by the flick of a switch.
If consciousness can be controlled by a physical object in the brain, this is compelling evidence that our consciousness does not exist outside of the brain, but rather within it.
And not only within it, but also located in a very specific spot in the brain. This seems to indicate that our consciousness is not some kind of spooky spirit or force that resides in a realm independent of the brain cells that make it up.
Unless further experiments prove otherwise, this evidence seems to indicate that, perhaps our consciousness can be understood. It is a manifestation of all our thoughts, sensory inputs, emotions and experiences compiled together with the help of an orchestra conductor called the claustrum.
This realization of consciousness being something physical, however does not make it any less special. It is still remarkable. It just means that it is probably worldly, and not other-worldly.
Citation: PDF of original research study on claustrum stimulation is located here:
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/...

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  • @joeschmoedontjaknow486
    @joeschmoedontjaknow4864 жыл бұрын

    Asking where the consciousness exists is like trying to pinpoint where exactly h2o is wet.

  • @gdeindrabhaskara1331

    @gdeindrabhaskara1331

    3 жыл бұрын

    this comment is underatted.. hope get more likes

  • @spec_wasted

    @spec_wasted

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think our biology has evolved so much that maybe our brain can manipulate the quantum world like how our olfactory nerves detect smell I cannot find words to describe myself

  • @Iamyodaddy_

    @Iamyodaddy_

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol so true

  • @stephengee4182

    @stephengee4182

    Жыл бұрын

    Does anesthesia make water less wet or does it inhibit quantum mechanical phenomena ?

  • @mudmagnet3249
    @mudmagnet32495 жыл бұрын

    Why can’t the claustrum be like a WIFI card. Receiving conscious? That could be turned off and on in such a way. Such a small part of the brain. Seems more likely to be the antenna rather than the central computer. Maybe anyways.

  • @AveiMil

    @AveiMil

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why can't it be? Well, there's no good reason to believe it functions like that.

  • @eerazor8205

    @eerazor8205

    4 жыл бұрын

    You're more intelligent than the scientist pushing their own agenda's and thoeries for reputation, you've seen the big basic flaw this video has. Yeah If i disable my mobile phone's signal reciever than that proves that the signal is inside my mobile phone and not out there, coming from a satellite right? Not every science video is actually scientific or correct, and science is always changing they always learn new things and how wrong they were about something previously.

  • @eerazor8205

    @eerazor8205

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AveiMil Thats a poor reason to dismiss the entire idea. Conciounsess is a forever on going debate, and science still doesnt agree to one thing or another. Only an idiot would blow away a possibility without investigating it. If the universe is inside the brain and caused by all neurons firing together then how is the brain inside the universe too? Why is there this paradox? If we cut open your skull why can you see your brain as something seperate? and if you touch it with your hands why doesn't it feel like you're touching "yourself" instead of pink flesh on your fingertips? Here's a better documentary with scientist about consciouness kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWSu1s6Ccby6c7g.html from minute 26:00 onwards they talking about one universal consciouness. Your entire body is made up of individual cells and organisms that creates a big overall human, these do the work of pumping your heart, digesting food, reparing wounds, all without your conscious effort, and yet your thinking mind has fooled you into thinking that you're a "real" individual entity The only reason you think you're an individual person seperate from reality is because of an "idea" the "me vs other". And ideas aren't real. They are thoughts happening within the present moment. Death should prove to you that life is a dream, one that you won't even remember, the future implies no you, so no reference point to know you ever existed in the first place. Now if life is a dream, then if you dream you were doing science in labrotory and you realise you were making ground breaking discoveries about how reality works, but then you wake up, and you realise that it was all a dream, everything was you, you create the science experiments, the people, and the achievments only to realise none of it was real, but your own imgination. Well that's reality, contemplate death more. It makes more sense if Geralt from Witcher 3 games didn't think he was seperate from other 3D objects, or that Tom cruise on the cinema screen was a seperate entity to the rest of the the screen. You see your brain is creating seperation of characters on a 1 big screen, due to thought and idea.

  • @mudmagnet3249

    @mudmagnet3249

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@eerazor8205 cool name. I like to believe I'm pretty smart. I didn't feel like I used much smarts debunking this vid though. Lol

  • @tashilhamu4510

    @tashilhamu4510

    4 жыл бұрын

    adam gastech your right

  • @jilliansmith7123
    @jilliansmith71235 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Ash, I really like that you're willing to tackle these sticky questions so reasonably and honestly.

  • @MasterBluspark
    @MasterBluspark2 жыл бұрын

    What if it wasn’t the consciousness that was turned off in that experiment, it was the connection from her consciousness to her knowledge and emotions etc... that are stored in the brain

  • @stephengee4182

    @stephengee4182

    Жыл бұрын

    Does the key switch make the car go? Maybe we can get into the key switch science?

  • @stephengee4182

    @stephengee4182

    Жыл бұрын

    Lots of people can learn to drive or start an automobile without having to understand how a car actually works.

  • @pierfrancescopeperoni
    @pierfrancescopeperoni3 жыл бұрын

    Asking where the consciousness was one of the flaws of Descartes's philosophy. In fact, one of the oldest solutions was given by Berkley, who hypothesed that the world outside us doesn't even exist. I actually had a similar intuition many years ago before I started studying philosophy: the material world is just an abstraction as well as physical models (which are precise mathematical abstractions), though imprecise and spontaneous. So consciousness is not located anywhere: it's space itself that is in our consciousness.

  • @erikrochelmeyer5329

    @erikrochelmeyer5329

    Жыл бұрын

    Love that! Totally agree! Switching it off with a probe does not alter that insight!

  • @kapworld2715
    @kapworld27153 жыл бұрын

    The conciousness is mystical because it is connected with the universe. Its an invisible field spread outward in the whole universe. Understanding it i believe holds the key to the riddle.

  • @erikrochelmeyer5329

    @erikrochelmeyer5329

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes- even if consciousness is pinned-down to being 'one area of the brain perceiving the other': it does not alter the mystery. How the hell did this happen???? Why??

  • @AJokerrrLevlll.7

    @AJokerrrLevlll.7

    Жыл бұрын

    The concept of “Remote-viewing” is evidence enough that consciousness is not specifically tied to the brain and the feedback loop it shares with the 5 senses

  • @paulbwill64
    @paulbwill645 жыл бұрын

    not if the brain is simply a receiver. finding the switch that turns off a radio does not prove that the music is produced inside the radio.

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    I hear that analogy a lot. My question is - A receiver from what? All evidence is that every single thought originated from the brain. Where else would it come from?

  • @rishikris1740

    @rishikris1740

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ArvinAsh YOUR KNOWLEDGE IS LIMITED

  • @sachiekat1238

    @sachiekat1238

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@ArvinAshI know this is an old video but maybe the Noosphere, I know it's probably not real and I don't actually believe in it, I believe that consciousness comes from our own brain, but it's still an interesting idea

  • @sednafloating7027
    @sednafloating70275 жыл бұрын

    I love these videos because they seem to be meditative/calming and intellectually challenging at the same time.

  • @louishunk2719

    @louishunk2719

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sedna Floating was his conclusion calming

  • @sumitmandal9085

    @sumitmandal9085

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are sexy and u know it !!!

  • @TatTvamAsi173
    @TatTvamAsi1732 жыл бұрын

    Great video. I would like to share my thought here. What if the claustrum was like a barrier to the actual flow of consciousness that was within that woman (and is there inside everyone). What if I say that what we call mind in philosophy was actually a part of the claustrum and the subjective experiences that one experience is something not fully realized and experienced because of the mind? What if the woman was actually seeing the world as it is without any human "filter"...The problem lies In the alternate definition of what being conscious means in the medical field vs the definition of consciousness according to philosophy. Medical field can say a person is "unconscious" if the person cannot respond to a stimuli, for instance, when a person faints. But philosophy says consciousness is qualia or qualitative and subjective experience. So a person in coma who is "unconscious" can still have subjective experience, in other words they are conscious. So basically even if the woman was unresponsive, it doesn't mean that she didn't have any subjective or conscious experience. The problem lies here. Its difficult to design an experiment that can say for sure if the person is actually having subjective experiences or not. Since subjective experiences are stored as memories (like your dreams get stored sometimes) damage to the memory region actually erased any and every conscious experiences that she might have had during the time her claustrum was not working. This might have led to the belief that maybe she didn't have any subjective experience. The closest we can go is to use electrodes and see what's going on inside the brain. What if consciousness is something that doesn't emerge from the brain, it is fundamental to reality and the fact that scientists can see parts of brain light up (neuronal firing) is emerging due to consciousness? What I propose is what if consciousness is the energy and the brain (and body) the vessel? science has miles to go if they really wish to find the origin of consciousness... Thanks : )

  • @valentinamora8603

    @valentinamora8603

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow 👏👏 I love this point. It's a connection to the energy itself, like an antenna.

  • @AwakingSpirit

    @AwakingSpirit

    Ай бұрын

    Very good points. For those of us who remember past lives, we do not still have the claustrum of the brain of those lives - yet we still have access to the memories. The memories live on within our soul and the spirits resonations. The events of memories that need the most work or that we can gain from show up more in our spiritual resonations as we continue our incarnational spirals through the space of time, as we move forward on earths timelines of incarnating. On a side note: I have this strange ability where I can point to a spot on my head and dircet my focus to the spot and random memories flood to me (without an electrode). It's not something I do for fun since it's a bit extreme when you realize what's happening.

  • @AlbertStichkaJohn
    @AlbertStichkaJohn5 жыл бұрын

    It is a sticky question, because even if you can point to a mechanism of consciousness necessary for conscious observation of being to occur, it doesn't seem to answer the question, what is conscious observation. The question of what it is to experience the consciousness of the brain would still be a place where people could imagine mysticism.

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    Good point.

  • @vaxechrist9485
    @vaxechrist94854 жыл бұрын

    Thank you but we believe consciousness is vaster than the brain, we not sure that it can be contained only in the brain. Consciousness is quantum, beyond physical. Namaste

  • @bjm6275
    @bjm62754 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Arvin! Yes, that which makes us conscious is within us. I don't necessarily think consciousness is in a physical part of us but we, that is life along with our bodies, produce consciousness. It is as if consciousness were the light in a light bulb. Before a switch is turned on the bulb is connected to wires and has a body with filaments and other part in it, but not light itself. But when the switch is turned on, and thus electricity flows through the bulb it produces light. Our bodies are like bulbs, life is the electricity that flows through which produces consciousness in our brains. The switch was turned on at or some time after conception but before birth.

  • @erikrochelmeyer5329

    @erikrochelmeyer5329

    Жыл бұрын

    I quite agree with that. Just because the probe 'switched it off' it doesn't really prove that consciousness is not God- it would simply tell me that consciousness is no longer located in that spot.

  • @whyseman375
    @whyseman3753 жыл бұрын

    To suggest that consciousness is limited to activity from organ in the brain, leads to the question how was this organ so intricately designed without some degree of consciousness?

  • @allanporter5780
    @allanporter57802 жыл бұрын

    Great explanation and the Claustrum is indeed an interesting area to research when considering how the brain integrates individual types of perceptions and judgments into a stream of awareness. Though in its essence consciousness should not be made synonymous with that stream of awareness that seemed to disappear when the woman's Claustrum was disconnected as that could have only made her appear unconscious and stop her memory integration. It is impossible to measure how conscious the woman was during that short time because we cannot put ourselves into another persons subjective experience by means of any experiment. We are simply treating something inherently subjective objectively and therein lies the problem of studying consciousness as it is any other physiological process and trying to measure when it is on or off. The actual subjective awareness associated with the woman's consciousness could have been on when the Claustrum was disconnected, yet the disconnection of the Claustrum rendered no externalities present for us to objectively measure and conclude that she was indeed conscious.

  • @_Reverse_Flash
    @_Reverse_Flash5 жыл бұрын

    Just because claustrum and "switch off" apparent consciousness doesn't mean that consciousness itself is not non-local. In the same way that a lightbulb switch can turn off the bulb but it does not mean that the wires are still not electrified.

  • @alwaysdisputin9930

    @alwaysdisputin9930

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly. My radio's knob does not mean music is inside my radio. My radio just receives EM waves & vibrates air molecules & then my mind projects conscious experiences onto the vibrations. When a beloved relative passed, some music sounded very heavenly to me. Therefore music is not inside the radio. Our consciousness resonates with the air vibrations somehow.

  • @StuartOliver83
    @StuartOliver835 жыл бұрын

    Nice guy cheers for sharing,I could sit with you and s beer and listen for hours 😂👍🏻

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks my friend. I will do a live chat in the future. Hope you'll join us then.

  • @n8thal718
    @n8thal7185 жыл бұрын

    It's interesting but medication can have the same effect. Identifing a region in the brain with unique characteristics is wonderful... The aspect of defining the complex features of conciousness and the potential of emergent qualities within the frame of conciousness is not resolved per what you appear to imply.

  • @sewerface

    @sewerface

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think that’s more your interpretation and less the actual content of the video

  • @connornichols6944
    @connornichols69445 жыл бұрын

    Glad to have some of your vids as I stumble through my existential crisis. Subbed today.

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    Existential Crisis - is perhaps what i should call this channel? You've come the right place my friend! Welcome. Existential thoughts pretty much runs 24 hours a day for me.

  • @seemlyme

    @seemlyme

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ArvinAsh No one knows the ultimate truth of reality and everything so consciousness. We can not separate anything from everything means all are different but the oneness. Meditate 🧘🏼‍♂️

  • @ParthMusic
    @ParthMusic5 жыл бұрын

    Its always joy to hear Mr. Arvin. His voice is calm and appealing to the ears. I watched almost all videos of him. Wether the topic interested me or not. Just to hear him.

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wow, thanks my friend! That's some high praise. I appreciate it. See you in the next one.

  • @cipherxol2508
    @cipherxol25085 жыл бұрын

    But if the claustrum acts as a switch, then doesn’t that mean that consciousness would have to come from a source other than the brain to function? Just a question

  • @radudancoroian5169

    @radudancoroian5169

    5 жыл бұрын

    The dude has very uninformed when makeing the videos. This only proves that the brain is a control panel not that it creates conciousnes. Your question is very good. The dude dont put questions.

  • @cipherxol2508

    @cipherxol2508

    5 жыл бұрын

    Radu Coroian ah okay, thanks

  • @albejaine

    @albejaine

    4 жыл бұрын

    It may be that the claustrum is responsible for consciousness or acts like an organ of consciousness receiving and processing centrally, all electrical impulses from different parts of the brain. That an external electric field put close enough to the claustrum can interupt and even cut out neural signals completely and as a consequence turning off consciousness. A severely damaged claustrum, would in theory, result in a complete loss of consciousness. Those are all electrical impulse in; and created by the brain and parts of it.

  • @cipherxol2508

    @cipherxol2508

    4 жыл бұрын

    Albern Newton yes but that’s just how the claustrum functions. If it created consciousness then we would have found that out long ago. It also wouldn’t explain how an organ, a combination of complex cells and electrical signals, can create a consciousness and why it does.

  • @radudancoroian5169

    @radudancoroian5169

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@albejaine Brain does not create consciousness, it creates intelligence and this 2 are not the same thing. Think at a computer, or robots. They are more inteligent than himans yet they are not conscious, they just repeat a series of comands in certain conditions. Ultimately consciousness is more likely to be an universal proprety, not exclusive to brains.

  • @HaloHeathen
    @HaloHeathen5 жыл бұрын

    Is the claustrum on both sides of the brain? Very interesting topic!

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes Halo...it is on both sides of the brain. Only one side was shown in the video to illustrate how the experiment was done. Sorry for the confusion.

  • @anandsuralkar2947

    @anandsuralkar2947

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ArvinAsh i literally thought its just one

  • @Sahilbc-wj8qk

    @Sahilbc-wj8qk

    5 жыл бұрын

    Claustrum

  • @doosqamfita

    @doosqamfita

    4 жыл бұрын

    And offcourse scientists have turn off the both claustrum together And they have also just switched one off for the sake of fun ? To see if still the girl is showing the same effect ?

  • @fmn2628

    @fmn2628

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes it is, the claustrum is grey matter (cell bodies of neurons) deep to the insulate lobe, its sandwiched between two white matter areas (axons) called the external and extreme capsules. The claustrum is bilateral, we do have one side of the brain that is dominant, so I would infer the same is true for these paired sets of neurons.

  • @naserdeenmehana144
    @naserdeenmehana1445 жыл бұрын

    I enjoy your videos very much. Please keep the excellent work

  • @prismstatistic
    @prismstatistic5 жыл бұрын

    given the reported effects of high doses, it's interesting that salvia affects the claustrum

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes, the mind-altering effects of Salvia divinorum is intriguing, since it is shown to affect the claustrum the most. I would be interested in results of any human trials, although I don't know if this will ever be possible.

  • @jilliansmith7123

    @jilliansmith7123

    5 жыл бұрын

    Boy, I had to look thre times at these posts as I was reading it as "saliva." And wondering how it could possibly get inside the brain or who would put it there.

  • @IAmRayAnthony

    @IAmRayAnthony

    4 жыл бұрын

    I never knew that about how Salvia affects the human brain. Now knowing that and the information given in this video...I can personally tell you from my own experience with Salvia...this actually may make sense about concsiousness.. because that's how I've told the story for more than 12 yrs.... when That Salvia hit me... EVERYTHING just "Went Away"... nobody could really comprehend what i meant, but I mean... EVERYTHING , this whole reality just Faded and dissolved away... Kind of like when the TV has no signal... Just dark and everything "went away".... It was such a saddening experience.... but when I came to... They asked me if I was ok.... and all i could say is "YES!' Everything was great.... just being back and having the capability to do ANYTHING again was SO GREAT. I was SO glad to be back to life, so to speak... It really changed the way I looked at being alive forever.

  • @kalleklp7291

    @kalleklp7291

    4 жыл бұрын

    The same could be true for Cannabis Sativa. Mind-altering effects are reported.

  • @dr.robert5322

    @dr.robert5322

    4 жыл бұрын

    It’s cerebrospinal fluid, not saliva!

  • @gypsycruiser
    @gypsycruiser3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for another fantastic video

  • @tyamada21
    @tyamada215 жыл бұрын

    The Law myoho-renge-kyo represents the identity of what some scientists refer to as the ‘unified field of all consciousnesses’. In other words, it’s a sound vibration that is the essence of all of existence and non-existence, the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the true creator of everything that is, ever was and ever will be, right down to the minutest particles of dust, each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves by tapping directly into it by way of self-produced sound vibration. On the subject of ‘Who or What Is God?’, when we compare the concept of ‘God’, as a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to Nichiren’s teachings, the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people call ‘God’ is our enlightenment, which exists nowhere else but within us. When the disciples asked Jesus where the Kingdom of God is, didn’t he tell them that it was within them? Some say that ‘God’ is an entity that can never be seen. I think that the vast amount of information that is constantly being conveyed via electromagnetic waves gives us proof of how an invisible state of ‘God’ could actually exist. It’s widely known that certain data being relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects, including instant global awareness of something or mass emotional reaction. As well as many other things, it’s also common knowledge that these waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to even enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars. However, none of this is possible without a receiver to decode the information that is being transmitted. Without the receiver, the information would remain impotent. In a very similar way, it’s important for us to have our ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our life, all other life and what we and all else that exists truly is. Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach into the core of our enlightenment and switch it on. That’s because the sound vibration of myoho-renge-kyo represents the combination of the three major laws that underlie all existence. Myoho represents the Law of latency and manifestation (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. One state of myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists. This includes our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them, our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re not being expressed, our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma, and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes obvious to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory, whenever we experience or express our emotions, or whenever a good or bad effect manifests from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it simply means that it has come out of the state of ‘myo’ (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s simply the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing something. The second law, renge, governs and controls the functions of myoho, ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect. The two laws of myoho and renge, both functions together simultaneously, as well as underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination, kyo, is what allows the law myoho to be able to integrate with the law renge. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects together all Life and matter, as well as the past, present and future. It is often termed the Universal Law of Communication. Perhaps it could even be compared to the string theory that some scientists now suspect exists. Just as our body cells, thoughts, feelings and all else are constantly fluctuating within us, everything in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux, in accordance with these three laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible for us to calculate or describe. And it doesn't matter how big or small, important or trivial that anything may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of myoho-renge-kyo. These three laws are also the basis of the four fundamental forces and if they didn't function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. Simply put, all forms of existence, including the seasons, day and night, birth, death and so on, are all moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation, rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two universal states of myo and ho in absolute accordance with renge and by way of kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn in accordance with the workings of what the combination myoho-renge-kyo represents. Nam, or Namu, on the other hand, is a password or a key; it allows us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with myoho-renge-kyo. On a more personal basis, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives from moment to moment, as well in our environment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is turning, and rhythmically chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for a minimum of ten minutes daily, anyone can experience actual proof of its positive effects in their life. In so doing, we can pierce through even the thickest layers of our karma and activate our Buddha Nature (the enlightened state). We’re then able to summon forth the wisdom needed to challenge, overcome and change our negative circumstances into positive ones. It brings forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that is preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we truly are, regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexual preference. We are also able to see and understand our circumstances and an environment more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. Actual proof soon becomes apparent to anyone who chants the words Nam-myoho-renge-kyo on a regular daily basis. Everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect, so the strength of the result from chanting depends on dedication, sincerity and determination. To explain it more simply, the difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, or producing a song and so on. NB: There are frightening, disturbing sounds and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It's the emotional result from any sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day you are producing a sound vibration that is the password to your true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things, such as your fears and desires etc. The important way to get the best result when chanting is not to see things in a conventional way (difficult to achieve but can be done), rather than reaching out to an external source, you need to reach into your own life and bring your needs and desires to fruition from within, including any help that you may need. Think of it as a seed within you that you are bringing sunshine and water to in order for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s important to understand that everything that we need in life, all the answers and potential to achieve our dreams, already exist within us. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aHeOkrqDobq4opc.html OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN sings about Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

  • @williamjoekirby587
    @williamjoekirby5873 жыл бұрын

    Just want to say how much I enjoy your videos--you have helped this math-phobic at least have a glimmer about some aspects of physics! Many, many thanks!

  • @MyTimeTravels
    @MyTimeTravels4 жыл бұрын

    That on off switch doesnt turn it off if it is remote like the internet. Just turns of the receiver like a cell phone.

  • @robertorourke6614
    @robertorourke66145 жыл бұрын

    you are missing a vital point, consciousness lives outside of the brain & also can & does inhabit the brain. When the claustrum is switched there is then no connection between the brain & consciousness, the consciousness is still aware of itself & this is where the claustrum theory falls apart. When the consciousness returns to the switched on brain the brain has no memory of its consciousness leaving the body simply because the memory was not created from the body senses & the brain has in itself no access to most of out of the body experiences. similar to dreams we leave the body for these experiences,& when we wake up sometimes we can experience these memories fading, again because they were not made through body senses.

  • @riadkhan9798

    @riadkhan9798

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes this is a fact.

  • @Normipedia
    @Normipedia4 жыл бұрын

    The biggest question I have, is if my "soul" exists only in the brain.. why this brain? Is it possibly for "me" to experience the claustrum of a different creature's brain from birth to death? Why isnt somebody else experiencing my mind, and vice versa?

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's a great question, that has philosophical implications. The "you" that is experiencing your life, behind your eyes, is probably unique to your particular claustrum, and can not be experienced by any other claustrum, or combination of brain patterns of any other animal, including other humans.

  • @ZeusHelios

    @ZeusHelios

    4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe your soul is experiencing other human lives and other creatures lives in other universes or perhaps you are experiencing other lives right here and now on earth through every different creature on earth, there is enough creatures on earth for some souls to be within one of the same creature and in every different species and experience life through that creature. For example, you could be one of the lions and an elephants as well as your human self all at the same time or one of the ants, while someone else is another lion maybe even in the same pride as you. Hope you get what I was trying to say not sure I put it very well.

  • @Normipedia

    @Normipedia

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ZeusHelios no you worded that just fine. I've wondered that myself. I remember a time in the woods when a mother deer and her baby just walked right up to me a looked me in the eye, as if it understood my good intentions. I wondered if there was some sort of connection there I dont understand. Ive felt this many times with other creatures, and sometimes other people.

  • @ZeusHelios

    @ZeusHelios

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Normipedia I've actually felt a connection with plants and trees when I was in my 20's and I haven't forgotten it since.

  • @apdestroyers2370
    @apdestroyers2370 Жыл бұрын

    If you think Consciousness is confined to our brain or the claustrum then just read the case of Pam Reynolds or you can also find her interwiew in which a surgery was to being carried on here in which her brain was dead and her heart wasn't beating too but when the surgery was over and she was back she could actually define the whole surgery , she described every thing the doctors did while operating on her and she also could here what they said and see what was happening ... Separated from her body and her mind and not just her there are many other such cases... Consciousness is not limited ... In fact even the smallest of the single cellular organisms have their consciousness and a little bit of intellect ... Probably quantum entanglement is also something thats trying to tell us the same or it may also be a property of those electron or the other fundamental particles of nature ... At the end it's left to you how you interpret it.

  • @OfMiceAndMegabytes
    @OfMiceAndMegabytes4 жыл бұрын

    First time hearing about this looks like I have to stay breaking out the medical journals more often📚📚

  • @petehoffs8804
    @petehoffs88043 жыл бұрын

    I love that this one went straight into the talk without the intro🤣🤣

  • @vanomisoo2492
    @vanomisoo24925 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much!

  • @gmodesike
    @gmodesike11 ай бұрын

    Also, the claustrom could just be a bridge between our natural brain and something in another dimension. It's possible.

  • @bjm6275
    @bjm62754 жыл бұрын

    Hi Arvin. My understanding is that the conscious is an awareness of a living organic organism that possesses a brain and connected heart that is animated by the force of. Life within cells. It is not God, but is from God. Consciousness is not in a particular place in the brain but there may be a place in the brain that may regulate it. It would not be consciousness itself but merely controlled or regulated by a part of the brain just as the brain can produce language, yet language is also not part of the brain.

  • @debayankumardas3316
    @debayankumardas33165 жыл бұрын

    I like your thoughts , at least you are not denying there's nothing beyond science,I am not religious at all ,not atheist either, You are the only channel now producing quality contents for viewers unlike those typical ad based click bait videos

  • @augustadawber4378
    @augustadawber43783 жыл бұрын

    Very specific parts of each and every Brain Neuron, the Microtubials, download Consciousness from the Platonic Spacetime Geometry of the Universe (ORCH OR Theory) A very specific part of the Brain, the Claustrum, turns these Brain Neurons On and Off. But, this Video has done an excellent job in helping to explain the 'Soft' problem of Consciousness.

  • @theomarian8758
    @theomarian87582 жыл бұрын

    It just the on/off button We receive 'signal' from outside as others have pointed

  • @TV-go3qz
    @TV-go3qz4 жыл бұрын

    I am not that good in English. But these video series are something I do listen repeatedly even slowing down play speed. Most of topics and its comments are somethings I was questioning myself. I must say warm Thank you for your efforts. from south Korea.

  • @carlg5086
    @carlg50865 жыл бұрын

    I think we are just extremely rare arrangements of atoms. Quantum computers coupled with super advanced AI, that have enough neural connections arranged in a certain way will eventually experience consciousness.

  • @ChronosWielder

    @ChronosWielder

    4 жыл бұрын

    Consciousness is fundamental and does not change, it is eternal and only has a range of infinite frequencies call souls. Spirit is consciousness and consciousness is spirit. Consciousness cannot be generated, it simply is.

  • @dianeanka507

    @dianeanka507

    4 жыл бұрын

    Where we go when we die

  • @dianeanka507

    @dianeanka507

    4 жыл бұрын

    Then

  • @dianeanka507

    @dianeanka507

    4 жыл бұрын

    Huh

  • @kapworld2715

    @kapworld2715

    3 жыл бұрын

    Our time is limited in this physical world. This is all an illusion. We are all in this field of consiciousness that is outside of the universe. The body is just a vessel. And this conciousness brain is just a receiver.

  • @pannudilraj
    @pannudilraj3 жыл бұрын

    I love his videos. He got True Scientific Understanding. He Never Rejects Anything Outright Just because we don’t have Discovered it yet. Great Job.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86023 жыл бұрын

    How would the physical brain come up with or produce consciousness? For natural selection / evolution to produce consciousness in human brain, would the physical brain interact with consciousness in the environment?

  • @mingonmongo1
    @mingonmongo14 жыл бұрын

    Dunno, does electricity not exist just because you can physically switch off your lights?

  • @jasonpenz8902
    @jasonpenz89024 жыл бұрын

    it's awesome to know, but sort of depressing at the same time . I don't want there to be an true end of my existence :(

  • @juandominguez5885

    @juandominguez5885

    4 жыл бұрын

    Look at the bright side, at some point you didnt even exist.

  • @YouveGot2BshittingMe

    @YouveGot2BshittingMe

    4 жыл бұрын

    ... it's better to have existed & lost than to have never existed at all? Lol

  • @juandominguez5885

    @juandominguez5885

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@YouveGot2BshittingMe yes

  • @mrcrumpitizer2259

    @mrcrumpitizer2259

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@juandominguez5885 If you haven’t always existed, then how do you exist now? How can non-existence start existing? As for the argument of you not existing once before, you didn’t exist once and yet, you happened. Why can’t you happen again if it’s already happened once? Some thought provoking stuff for you 😜

  • @TheAivons
    @TheAivons5 жыл бұрын

    Do you think it would be possible that consciousness is a separate entity from your subconscious mind? Both always working together to reach a common goal. For example like in a computer the software and the hardware. Could it be that your consciousness consists of pure intellect that has access to the brain to store and retrieve information?

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting question. You could be onto something. I don't think anybody knows the answer. My personal opinion is that the subconscious is that part of your brain that takes and integrates information that is present from your 5 senses, but not available to you intellectually. For example, you might get a negative feeling after meeting someone but can't put your finger on why. This is your brain processing subtle information in the background - for example, body language, smells, visual cues that your intellect did not think anything of, but your subconscious program did process. This could be like hardware and software like you said.

  • @HardKore5250

    @HardKore5250

    5 жыл бұрын

    The brain is a quantum computer.

  • @GJ-dj4jx

    @GJ-dj4jx

    5 жыл бұрын

    It has been proven that consciesness is outside the brain. Near Death Experiences, or reincarnation cases where kids remember their past life shows not only that consciesness is seperate but that it also does not need the body to perceive. Now that very disturbing indeed, and I wander what the purpose of our bodies is. Maybe it's just some sort of stimulation, or what some call Atman, the universal consciesness separating and trying to experience though Maya (illusion)

  • @rajprasad5899

    @rajprasad5899

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@GJ-dj4jx Consciousness is a state of awareness of one's existence , thoughts, deeds and actions. In the individual soul are the embedded impression of past and present lives which then express themselves through consciousness and the subconscious . It is analogous to the DNA of the physical body . As long as one lives, consciousness is part of him and resides within the astral body. On death it moves with the astral body and is governed by different laws.

  • @GJ-dj4jx

    @GJ-dj4jx

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@rajprasad5899 I like your belief that our consciesnes is the sum of our past and present experiences. If I might ask, is that grounded on your religious beliefs? I personally grew up as a dogmatic materialist, but opened myself to the idea of consciesness (soul) as seperate entitie after reading on empirical studies done on the subject. If you are, what religious persuasion do your beliefs come from?

  • @edwardhayes6111
    @edwardhayes61114 жыл бұрын

    Couldn’t the claustrum simply be a physical access to separate consciousness?

  • @DanMice1
    @DanMice14 жыл бұрын

    @ArvinAsh Can you make a video about tachyons please?

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    4 жыл бұрын

    Other's have asked as well. It is on my list.

  • @dsbupadrasta2385
    @dsbupadrasta23853 жыл бұрын

    I don't think it is any kind of consciousness but it is simply like hypnotizing the person and the person don't remember anything

  • @stevephillips8083
    @stevephillips80835 жыл бұрын

    Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia like this :)

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    I had to look up that reference...lol. I see what you mean now.

  • @evangelion243
    @evangelion2433 жыл бұрын

    There are some theories that our consciousness is beamed into our bodies sort of like a tv signal. Maybe that Claustrum acts like an antenna. That when we die our consciousness goes back to a sort of singular greater consciousness simply to be beamed back out again; maybe in another form, maybe in another universe. I have no fucking clue, but that is the idea.

  • @virajelix
    @virajelix4 жыл бұрын

    BTW, the term consciousness in other philosophy doesn't match the term consciousness being used here. Mind and consciousness is two different entities in deep spiritual philosophy. So, in this case, we cannot generalize in this way as being mentioned here.

  • @josuehram6309
    @josuehram63093 жыл бұрын

    Is it different the meaning of the word awareness than consciousness, in English?

  • @CP-qn1mn
    @CP-qn1mn4 жыл бұрын

    I think it is a pretty big leap to say that because one woman stared blankly and did not respond to stimuli that consciousnesses is created in this one spot in the brain. That there is nothing to consciousness more than a small piece of the brain.

  • @cliffwells6694
    @cliffwells66942 жыл бұрын

    consciousness is everywhere non material, the brain decodes your particular slice of being to suit your memories and experience

  • @tweedy151
    @tweedy151 Жыл бұрын

    but why is my conscousness my consciousness or your, yours? How did I get in this body, why am I not just one of the other people. Why that baby my parents had, just two random people. First person perspective, or the 'I' is baffling to me.

  • @doosqamfita
    @doosqamfita4 жыл бұрын

    If I see some object it's like I am perceiving the data then after my brain tells me what it is I understand eyes like a signal receiver which can be switched on and off at the same time Can these colostrum be the same ? We also see pictures while eyes are closed ?

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    4 жыл бұрын

    Interesting idea. In the case of eyes, they are measuring devices, but the interpretation of the measurement occurs in the brain. The colostrum appears to be a concentrated area of this "interpretation."

  • @doosqamfita

    @doosqamfita

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ArvinAsh thanks for your reply ! Yes it's very unlikely that consciousness is some miracles or supernatural thing .it's mostly that it's very complex to understand so the people imply some wishful thoughts on it to comfort themselves including me :p

  • @riogolsorkhi3841
    @riogolsorkhi38414 жыл бұрын

    Dear Arvin Riddle me this Excretion of urine is an emergent property of renal cells in renal tissue Consciousness is the emergent property of neurotransmitter firing brain cells in brain tissue Urine is physical and can be analyzed physically down to its elementary particles Is consciousness physical and can it be analyzed down to elementary particles? Your opinion matters to me

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your patronage my friend. I don't have any doubt that consciousness is physical. I think much more mystery is put into this than needs to be. At the root of our consciousness is neuronal activity in the brain. This is where all thoughts, feelings, memory, and knowledge reside. These can be traced to electrical and chemical flow in the brain. Although this is an area of ongoing research, recent research has made great strides in pinpointing certain brain function to various parts of the brain. Much more research is needed, but I believe we will be able to completely map the brain, and through this, our consciousness in the near future.

  • @amaliaantonopoulou2644
    @amaliaantonopoulou26443 жыл бұрын

    Wait a minute, I have a question to make. I'm interested in this experiment, was the woman conscious about herself? could she remember her name and who she although her mind was empty and aloof? or she had forgotten herself too?

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    3 жыл бұрын

    She had no reaction. She was like a vegetable, then become perfectly ok, when the electricity was turned off. And she did not remember that she had become like a vegetable.

  • @amaliaantonopoulou2644

    @amaliaantonopoulou2644

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ArvinAsh thanks for making it clear, it seems the claustrum function is a very important and essential function of the brain and it is interesting to find out more about this

  • @wajeehrizvi25
    @wajeehrizvi253 жыл бұрын

    Also would conciousness be considered a form of energy or matter?

  • @peterroymakkay2139
    @peterroymakkay21394 жыл бұрын

    what about paramecium does it have claustrum ?

  • @microvitaexpress
    @microvitaexpress Жыл бұрын

    I recommend looking into the explanation of consciousness as described by yoga philosophy, specifically Ananda Marga "Path of Bliss" philosophy. Here non-qualified consciousness is primary, creating a cosmic mind and the universe, life and human beings and their brains and minds within this cosmic mind. The spiritual goal of life is to become one with the infinite consciousness from which we were evolved, and also to serve living beings. Consciousness is not in the brain although it is associated with the brain and everything else. Rather the brain is within consciousness. Please check it out. I was trained in physics and psychology by the way.

  • @shadimomtahen9282
    @shadimomtahen92824 жыл бұрын

    Merci thanks 👏🏻

  • @gggg-xv7nb
    @gggg-xv7nb3 жыл бұрын

    Well everything must be 'worldly' because cousciousness must be able to tell the brain/body what to do, and record them memories generated in the brain. It must therefore physically interact with the 'meat' of the brain, made of physical particles, to transmit that information back and forth. Anything that interacts physically with worldly particles is by definition worldly

  • @Esterified80
    @Esterified804 күн бұрын

    Later studies showed no distruption in consciousness when passing current through the claustrum

  • @dannytennial5311
    @dannytennial53115 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Clearly those whose consciousness is influence by religious dogma finds fault with your video. I'm like the scientific community, I don't know. I have a close friend who told me how she had an out of body experience without any trama. She was handling a prisoner as a correctional officer. She said suddenly she saw herself outside the body doing her job. I am a former science teacher of public and private schools. I know of no present theory of science that can explain this. It may not be supernatural but it maybe a function of our brain and science that we haven't understood just yet.

  • @gsbealer

    @gsbealer

    4 жыл бұрын

    Danny Tennial My mother had quite a few out-of-body episodes from the age of 13 on. They freaked her out.

  • @kapworld2715

    @kapworld2715

    3 жыл бұрын

    Its a glitch in the matrix. Conciousness is a field.

  • @Intuitioncalling
    @Intuitioncalling5 жыл бұрын

    I commented earlier as well but ive a wild theory here. Been binge watching your videos since 2 hours. I just presume that Your low subs might be due to the overlords trying to stop you from dispensing the true information to the general public. Your videos are also stopping unexpectedly so dont know maybe... Anyhow again great stuff

  • @jeantyler9059

    @jeantyler9059

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ashar. Life, unfortunately, is a lot more mundane...

  • @ominous-omnipresent-they

    @ominous-omnipresent-they

    4 жыл бұрын

    Honestly, it isn't overlords. It's this current war on science and discovery led by religious extremists like Creationists. These people aren't harmless and their current agenda is evidence of that.

  • @lastflowers2401
    @lastflowers24015 жыл бұрын

    Can I do your intro music for you? I love your channel, but it makes me feel like I'm being taken into a Beverly Hills mansion to see a wall of books and a 30 year old millionaire.

  • @wajeehrizvi25
    @wajeehrizvi253 жыл бұрын

    Does the conductor idea imply that the conductors are separate entities of conciousness within are mind. So could there ever be such thing as a collective conciousness which is conciousness because of many other separate entities of conciousness?

  • @davidclifford5393
    @davidclifford53934 жыл бұрын

    Obviously, you can knock somebody unconscious and when they wake up, they won't know what happened, so I don't think that it is a big surprise that they found something specific in the brain that controls consciousness. This is a thought-provoking video like many of your videos, but I don't think it really moves the needle regarding the spiritual argument. I would be curious to see how a Buddhist would respond to this, since they seem to argue that consciousness is like matter and energy, and can be neither created nor destroyed. My problem with that is that it does not appear that living organisms had consciousness in the universe for about 12 billion years. So where was all this consciousness before there were brains? I am amazed that more people are not watching your videos.

  • @YouveGot2BshittingMe

    @YouveGot2BshittingMe

    4 жыл бұрын

    Very presumptuous to assume there weren't any conscious beings before humanity. As for our human brains, because consciousness is formed through an interoperable process, it's possible we lacked the biological sophistication necessary to develop "identity" or in this case consciousness. Who knows. It's anyone's guess, maybe we're just getting started as a species.

  • @davidclifford5393

    @davidclifford5393

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@YouveGot2BshittingMe Interoperability is the ability to exchange and use information. Consciousness is awareness of your surroundings. Pretty hard to have one without the other. So maybe there was no consciousness for one or two billion years instead of twelve. That is still a real long time. And maybe we just don't get it. I'm open to that.

  • @2828jordan

    @2828jordan

    4 жыл бұрын

    I will tell you the eastern spiritual perspective. Consciousness is the underpinning of this entire universe. It is not the product of the brain. Brain or human body uses this body to experience the world. All living and non living things are made up of consciousness. They are evolved out of consciousness ,are within consciousness and make use of consciousness. Just because their brains (mind) of the organisms are not developed doesnt mean consciousness are not present in them. There are able to make use of it depending on the extent they are evolved. Animals have less of a mind compared to human, Plants have even less. Consciousness is like the intelligent energy source which powers the organism, human, animals, plants and even non living things. Scientific community just got it completely wrong, they think consciousness is the product of brain.

  • @AwakingSpirit
    @AwakingSpiritАй бұрын

    First we need to discern - are we speaking of mental consciousness or spiritual consciousness. There are many levels and forms of 'consciousness'. To me, someone who has had extreme psychic visions into my future as a toddler - as well as seeing into what appear to be my past lives - true consciousness is multidimensional and thus is spiritual consciousness. Trying to 'make sense' of consciousness with 3rd dimensional mind constructs is limiting one's own consciousness since it is actually multidimensional and comes from higher constructs than what I will term gravitized constructs. Nice video!

  • @supremereader7614
    @supremereader76143 жыл бұрын

    I don’t agree that the Claustrum ‘switch’ means consciousness doesn’t exist outside of the brain. It may be more like a radio, turning the switch doesn’t make all music disappear from the airwaves.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86023 жыл бұрын

    The claustrum shuts off use of consciousness in the brain of human person, would not shut off consciousness external to brain / human person.

  • @colincrooky
    @colincrooky3 жыл бұрын

    Ecclesiastes 9:5 “For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward, because all memory of them is forgotten”. Thanks Arvin

  • @michaeljoshua5040
    @michaeljoshua50404 жыл бұрын

    What if this physical part is like an antenna or smth? I'm not talking about some electromagnetic transmission but quantum entanglements with something else that may be outside our whole universe. We do not know anything yet. I suggest more experiments at a chemical level especially in this part.

  • @dennistucker1153
    @dennistucker11534 жыл бұрын

    From a programmer's perspective, consciousness is... 100 Take_Action(What_Should_I_Do(What_Is_Going_On(Sight, Smell, Taste, Touch, Hear, Memory), Memory)) 110 Goto 100

  • @massimogambaccini5081
    @massimogambaccini5081 Жыл бұрын

    so what about Orch Or theory of Nobel physicist Penrose and neurosurgeon Hameroff? Why don't you try to refute it in a video?

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    Жыл бұрын

    I made a video about it here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKWfk9GFZJXYZdY.html

  • @massimogambaccini5081

    @massimogambaccini5081

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, I'll watch the video and possibly leave my comments. However I do not think that consciousness is just an epiphenomenon of our brain ... it would seem the simplest explanation but if you think about it it is the most absurd of hypotheses.

  • @Velodan1
    @Velodan14 жыл бұрын

    Arvin, I was watching Leonard Suskind explain the holographic principal theory to a lay audience. He talked in depth about the conservation of information theorem. Lets just say consciousness is what you propose. What happens to the information contained in memories after a person dies?

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    4 жыл бұрын

    That is a great question! Leonard Suskind would say that it is not lost, in the same way that burning a book does not lose the information from the universe. If you had quantum tools that allowed you to track the position and state of each atom, then you could put it back together. The atoms are still in the universe. Same with your memory, it is in your brain. When you die, your brain decays, but the atoms are still in the universe and if we had the tools we could put it back together. When something enters a black hole's singularity however, it is gone from this universe.

  • @Velodan1

    @Velodan1

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ArvinAsh An excellent topic for a video dear sir. Doesn't THP assert information is never lost in the singularity according to Suskind. Instead it is somehow encoded along the event horizon before it can be gobbled up, i believe. Also, memories may exist as a kind of hologram and projections of quantum processes.i.e. People who can visually see and paint imaginary objects, mathematicians who can see the answers to previously unsolved proofs, Einstein, Mozart.i.e. In any case, currently beyond our understanding. Doesn't the conservation of information have to have some level of cohesion?

  • @tashilhamu4510
    @tashilhamu45104 жыл бұрын

    That nerve or whatever in the brain is like the switch of a bulb. If a switch is damaged and you cannot get the bulb to work, does that mean that the switch was the source of elecricity? No!! The electricity is there regardless only the device is broken. Similarly consciousness is there regardless and the thing in the human brain is just a receiver of it! So if you knock someone down the device is broken but consciousness remains whatsoever. To know this you need to meditate

  • @alcohalic6338
    @alcohalic63385 жыл бұрын

    Arvin, the brain is a receiver of consciousness. Finding a on-off switch does not change that. Also, general anesthesia is also a different on-off switch. Consciousness is obviously fundamental to the universe. Just look at quantum mechanics and be objective about it, and don"t worry about your peers sneering at you. There are stuck in the past.

  • @johnyoutube6746
    @johnyoutube67462 жыл бұрын

    Consciousness is flow of energy

  • @kmoore899
    @kmoore8995 жыл бұрын

    The brain is an instrument that is used by consciousness to express Itself in this realm. Consciousness exist outside of this realm and physicality is not a necessity for consciousness to exist.

  • @mysteryneophyte
    @mysteryneophyte2 жыл бұрын

    There are arguments that are incredibly convincing that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of the Brain and likewise there are arguments that are just as convincing that consciousness is transcendent.

  • @alwaysdisputin9930

    @alwaysdisputin9930

    2 жыл бұрын

    What would you say is the best argument that consciousness is a by-product of the brain?

  • @83moonchild
    @83moonchild7 ай бұрын

    You say in the video when the woman had the area of her brain stimulated she stopped breathing and became unconscious but then say her breathing slowed and she sat staring unaware of surroundings? If she was unconscious her body wouldnt sit up and she wouldnt stare but she wouldnt stop breathing as shes only unconscious not dying or dead, you then say her breathing slowed which it would if unconscious but still she wouldnt have the physical ability to sit up, eyes open, she would immediately fall eyes closed. So did this experiment ascertain that when a person becomes unconscious not only does the person lose all awareness but also the body loses all function? If so if they caused her to only lose concious awareness through stimulating a particular area of the brain, does this tell us there must be multiple areas of the brain active when a person becomes unconscious in order for them to collapse and their bodies have no reaction to external stimuli whilst in this state (such as pin pricks, and a trick nurses use on people they suspect are faking seizures or unconsciousness holding the patients hand arm outstretched above their face and suddenly letting go, if concious a person will automatically stop their hand dropping limply and hittinf them in the face or they will press the persons closed eyelid without warning again if concious they will squint both being loosely inbuilt reflexive reactions. Yet this woman was able to remain seated upright and although unaware and unconscious of herself or surrounding kept her eyes open, i wonder did she blink? Why would it be that if our body fails and we collapse why do we lose conciousness and the same vice versa does the body move spontaneously when a person is unconscious (not during a seizure episode) why does it seem to appear that the body collapsing almost always is online with loss of concious awareness however this lady kept full physical control obviously not through concious decision but whilst unconscious?

  • @sumitmandal9085
    @sumitmandal90853 жыл бұрын

    Consciousness is defined mostly as ability to question self existance , switching on and off brain makes no sense . You know r8, that intelligence and consciousness are two different things

  • @naserdeenmehana144
    @naserdeenmehana1445 жыл бұрын

    Thanks nice videow but could it be that the brain is only processor of the waves that we receive by our 5 senses of the surrounding world and mysterious waves from higher sources accounting for other abstract unseen values in our lives like love, justice, intuition etc..

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nice question. Others on this comment section are convinced of this. However, there is no evidence that thoughts come from anywhere other than the brain.

  • @saniyagamer-xd2oq
    @saniyagamer-xd2oq3 жыл бұрын

    Sir can consciousness is pert of the brain or something else ?

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's part of the brain. There is no evidence otherwise.

  • @xx_xxxxx_xx4800
    @xx_xxxxx_xx48003 жыл бұрын

    Ok i just randomly made a TED talk on this. sry if it's nonsense. it's also for myself. what if consciousness is simply the information that all particles have the capability of collecting of another particle's position? That way the brain may contain the consciousness of every memory we have and thereby all the particle positions we have been the witness of. I theorize that the claustrum seperates the consciousness in the brain, so that there's no longer any connections between the bunch of isolated consciousnesses for taste, hearing, sight and so on. I'm taking a wild guess. I dont understand how a woman's non-reaction proves anything. she might as well get paralyzed and stop collecting memory for those few seconds. it's such a tricky thing, that i think the best option is to understand consciousness as a force of nature. I don't see there being any specific trait to the brain that should make it otherwise. Rocks and trees are also conscious, i think - just in a completely different way. Imagine there being a particle of sadness

  • @saniyagamer-xd2oq
    @saniyagamer-xd2oq3 жыл бұрын

    Sir consciousness and soul are Shem ?

  • @MikeStoddart
    @MikeStoddart4 жыл бұрын

    The music is annoying.

  • @tectardedprepper8954
    @tectardedprepper89545 жыл бұрын

    Makes me wonder if the pineal gland is connected to the claustrum . we have more sences than 5 , a sence of humor , a sence of balance and on and on . it goes to show that as each question is answered it sparks a thousand more . Great content !!!

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. Yes there could be a connection between the two. Maybe this accounts for "consciousness-altering" experiences that people have after taking certain drugs that affect the pineal gland?

  • @jameskahl2213

    @jameskahl2213

    5 жыл бұрын

    For the sake of argument I'll interpret the scientific name for it as "unquantified". You see, the problem with science is that they're concerned with the quantifiable, e.i. the measurable. Never mind the fantastic theorems that we would call hypothetical. So they will never say anything about souls, spirits, or God except that it doesn't exist unless they can measure it.

  • @leoscareer
    @leoscareer5 жыл бұрын

    switching off doesn't mean consciousness is local. turn off the TV. humans disappear from the screen. then goes back when turned on. it doesn't mean humans are inside your TV set

  • @ArvinAsh

    @ArvinAsh

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the comment. I'm hearing the TV and Radio signal analogy from others as well in this comment section. If true, where do you believe these signals could be emanating from?

  • @leoscareer

    @leoscareer

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ArvinAsh The problem is when you answer that question, we're in the area of 100% pure conjecture, philosophy, religion and that's just not where I'm willing to go. As much as I like the idea, I prefer to not go beyond the mere idea that Materialism is an outdated idea. Here are 300 cognitive scientists who have the same views. (That consciousness is external and brain could be an antenna who merely access it) opensciences.org/about/manifesto-for-a-post-materialist-science

  • @leoscareer

    @leoscareer

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kidyounot3387 Nobody knows. Chalmers has 2 hypothesis. Panpsychism and the Universal Foundation of Reality. The first would mean its materialist but its everywhere. The second would mean its working with the Quantum phenomenon. If you choose to investigate the 2nd, you would be met with 2 hypothesis on how this is happening. This is from Penrose and Hameroff. As a secular, I would say "I don't know. I'm waiting for the scientists above to figure it out". But as a Tibetan Buddhist, I would say, it doesn't matter.

  • @tashilhamu4510

    @tashilhamu4510

    4 жыл бұрын

    Arvin Ash the fish asks “where is water” while living in it its whole life. Study the vedantic scriptures of india arvin bhai. And since you just don’t want to go into the realm of philosophy, go into it experientally and meditate. Know it for yourself, firsthand! Even scientific facts are second hand.You seem to have a bias.

  • @tdenham735
    @tdenham7355 жыл бұрын

    Can't get enough of your awesome videos! Thank you!!!

  • @bobstown5259
    @bobstown52594 жыл бұрын

    Please don't ever ever add music

  • @slidatornecro685
    @slidatornecro6854 жыл бұрын

    Thinking why consciousness of a being is just experienced through a specific brain out of so many.

  • @_abhishekmj_
    @_abhishekmj_3 жыл бұрын

    Now I know who is the culprit when I go blank or do nothing! Its claustrum ; I got new person to blame my laziness 😅

  • @TomGrubbe
    @TomGrubbe4 жыл бұрын

    For those that looking for a deeper dive into consciousness theory, search for "roger penrose and stuart hameroff microtubules".

  • @ronaldkemp3952
    @ronaldkemp39522 жыл бұрын

    Consciousness is a collection of everything we have experienced. This experience can be altered using drugs, meditation, when in extreme pain, trauma, or when the brain is subjected to high energy electromagnetic fields like gamma, alpha or beta waves. Human consciousness would be the collection of information we've interpreted. I don't believe the body produces a consciousness. I guess you could say consciousness is a focal point in space and time interpreting everything in the universe.

  • @nivekvb
    @nivekvb5 жыл бұрын

    I hope there's barbecues in heaven!

  • @mikesercanto9149
    @mikesercanto91494 жыл бұрын

    Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it... We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.” ― Hippocrates

  • @leomedenilla2730
    @leomedenilla27303 жыл бұрын

    is it at the center??

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