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Consciousness is LIGHTS ON
Consciousness is the experiential quality of existence. It's whatever feels to be us. Consciousness operates with sensory inputs (images, sounds etc) ... but ultimately is a black box form a scientific point of view.
But since each of this experience is fundamentally personal we can not build on it. What we do is equate existence with what we can explain with words, abstract concepts and so on. These are important but they are not an accurate representation of existence.
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The illusion of free will & the futility of hate
Sam Harris thinks free will is an illusion. He combined scientific materialism or Buddhism non-dualism to reach this conclusion.
The practical element is just that hate stops making sense: "If we cannot assign blame to the workings of the universe, how can evil people be held responsib...
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Breaking the spell of self with meditation & psychedelics
We live with the delusion we are the authors of our thoughts. That there is a small dictator in our brain thinking stuff. However upon investigation thoughts seem to come up independent of a self. Subjectively though just emerge. "You don't pick your thought or opinions"
Meditation...
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The sources of consciousness
At the extremes consciousness can be a side-effect of information processing (neurons firing in our brain causing this feeling of "being me") or panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is fundamental to the structure of the universe (atoms are conscious).
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Psychedelics vs psychotic drugs
Sam Harris didn't try DMT, mainly because he does look at its effects as psychotic. After ingestion (usually through smoking) people are "teleported" to the center of the universe where they claim to meet aliens or angels. This fundamentally different than an "acid trip" (LSD) where your openness...
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AI and Conscious Robots
Sam Harris's problem with general AI is that it might get to a level where a robot behaves like a conscious being. And since conscious is a scientific mystery still we will have no other option but to believe them.
Because consciousness is an experience more than an explanation. Li...
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Consciousness is Experience
"What is like to be a human?" is the question that consciousness answers. It represents our experience of us & the world around us:
- Most people associate consciousness with awareness. However awareness is not required, meaning some animals are...
Scientists think consciousness is generated by quantum physics.
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, physicist Roger Penrose tea...
Getting Stuck On Numbers
- Number structures and counting systems have several advantages and disadvantages, and not all minds think in the same way when dealing with abstract concepts.
- Getting stuck on something is a boon, as it takes us towards the first principles, of what we are essentially trying to ach...
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