You are very welcome to comment and contribute to a productive discussion of the topic. I also like to refine the definition I use "consciousness". I defined it as the "capacity to experience/to be aware of...". It will be more precise to use the word "ability" rather than "capacity" since the word capacity indicates changeable measure, yet the phenomenon I call consciousness is absolute - as explained in the video.
@MartinPeel
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking If consciousness was an absolute ability that couldn't be measured, that would mean that a blind person's ability to experience would be the same as a person who could see, that becomes problematical with the colour red, to use the same example as your video.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Martin Peel (Duskmoor) Hey martin, thanks for your comment. As I understand this subject, a blind person's consciousness would be the same as in one who can see. Yet his ability to experience red in his consciousness would be limited since he doesn't have the necessary "mental gear" (Projector). The color red in our consciousness is triggered by the vision mechanism. It can also be triggered by recalling a memory of red. Yet, if the blind man never saw red in his life, he wouldn't even have a memory of red to recall from. Consciousness is dependent on the mind (or psyche) to experience (as well as mind dependent on consciousness to be experienced). I'm not saying that the mind and consciousness are two different entities. They may be different aspects of one phenomenon - like the relation between the sea and it's waves, but for the moment I can't know it, so from my point of view, they are two different phenomena. The mind is dependent on our brain and our senses. A blind man can't see and so his brain can't create the necessary neural pattern that will be experienced as red upon consciousness. Yet the consciousness itself is the same for the blind and the non-blind.
@MartinPeel
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking Thanks for the quick reply. It seems you agree that the blind man has a limited ability to be cognisant of the colour red (if he has never seen in his life) - are you suggesting that even without this ability his consciousness is the same despite him probably shrugging mentally whenever "red" is brought up in conversation? I find it interesting that we are hypothesizing a divide between mind and consciousness, would it be better to state that consciousness is a state of mind? After all, we are familiar with labelling sleep as unconsciousness.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Martin Peel (Duskmoor) Hey Martin, Thanks for your comment. I need to explain something about myself in order to answer your question. I do not hypothesise a divide between mind and consciousness. In fact, I do not deal with hypothesis at all. The things I talk about are not some "philosophical" ideas. They are a result of research. When I want to understand the mind, I do not think about it or invent hypothesis about it. I research it, like a scientist. I conduct experiments in my mind and observe the results. The only difference between me and a scientist is that a scientist conducts his experiments in the "external world", while I conduct them in the internal world. Now, What I call "the mind" and consciousness, are two different phenomena with different attributes. Let me explain this with a metaphor: Take an eye and an apple. You cannot claim that they are the same thing, even though without the eye, the apple can't be seen. The same way, the mind is there even when consciousness is not observing it. You can deduce it by the following evidence: Think about a song played in your mind. you hear it, and then, for 20 seconds, you are distracted by someone talking to you. During these 20 second, you didn't hear the song (It was not a conscious experience) yet when you return hearing the song it continues 20 seconds after the point you lost it. This means that the song existed in an unconscious way. So mental objects do have a certain existence outside of consciousness. Also, consciousness is not a state of mind, since it exist always. even when the mind is absent. To reach this conclusion you have to manage an experience that is very difficult to create. It is a meditation of emptying your mind from thoughts. It is very difficult, but even if you manage for 1 second to experience a mindless consciousness, you can deduce it is not dependent on thought. It is true that in this very second your consciousness has experienced other mental items, as sensory sensations and emotions. These are more difficult to eliminate, but it is also possible. The bottom line is, that more and more silent your mind is, the clearer you see that consciousness is still there. On the contrary, it becomes "stronger". To be more precise, It's not the consciousness that gets stronger, but your attention. It is less absorbed. Attention is a special energy that connects the mind with consciousness.
@egarulastinn7438
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking Some part of chemical and electrical activities in our brains is deciphered as experiences, experienced by our consciousness. But what is decoding them? It cannot be what you call mind, as it would just change one code into another, still having to be encoded in order to be experienced, as "experiencing" itself is exactly that - deciphering those activities. Therefore it is consciousness deciphering. But consciousness cannot be just a process of decoding data - brain activities in case of humans - because decoding is just changing one thing into the other, it can be done awerenessless. 1. Or can it? 2. What is the thing making encoding lightwaves as electrical impulses different from encoding electrical impulses as experiences? What makes on of this processes aware? 3. If the decoder is a part of consciousness, we cannot say that all consciousnesses are the same, because every one could decode same data differently. If the decoder is not a part of cosciousnes, the experiences would have to exist without consciousness (as they would only reach consciousness), and it seems impossible to claim something is an experience if no-one is experiencing it (yet).
@onlyonerombo
5 жыл бұрын
What an amazing and clear explanation of what Consciousness is. You have explained what thousands of years of Spiritual teachings have been pointing to what our True Nature is and what we really are... That is to say that our body and mind is merely just the limited device that our True Nature is temp located in. And what we really are has been given many descriptions.... Conciousness, the knower of our experience, Awareness, Unlimited, Empty and Everything, and ALL being One and the Same. Your explanation of Consciousness described all of these characteristics. And yet whilst it can be pointed at or suggested to what it is "IT' can never be known, described or explained in words. Thank You for such a beautiful yet simple example.
@chennakesavasingh2720
7 жыл бұрын
presently i am doing my M.Sc., Psychology. As a Journalist I saw Prof.Tsur Taub videos, some years ago, while writing Story to a News paper. wonderful videos.I want to see whole lot once again. Thanks to "you Tube", which made it possible. special thanks to Prof. Tsur Taub.
@makeupmantra5
8 жыл бұрын
You got me at "what is consciousness"...That brightness in your eyes and voice and expression...I love the way you spoke...its just amazing.Thank you so much!
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Makeup Mantra :)
@sivarajan7692
3 жыл бұрын
I am physically 27 years old boy. Its enough for my 27 years of searchings.... Thank you so much... This vedio made 4 years ago... Definitely now you are very successful and growing.... Forgive if i made any grammar mistakes
@Lucidthinking
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Siva, Thank you very much four Your comment. I hope to be able to do more videos in the near future.
@vaNickers
8 жыл бұрын
Few people realize that when thoughts arise they are "experiencing" their thoughts. Thoughts indeed are "subtle" experiences. But what is the significance of this? In your video you have explained that since "I" as the Consciousness makes experience possible, then that means "I" am beyond experiences. Our world is a world of experiences. But knowing ourselves as the Consciousness, then this world can just be observed without getting entangled in the experience of pleasure and pain, of sorrow and misery. And that I think is the summum bonum of human existence. Another insight on experience is that experience can be a problem when it has become illusory. This happens because of memory being projected onto the screen. When we experience something, the memory of the past will arise as thoughts and distort the present. As a result, we don't "see" the thing as it is, instead we only see an "image" based on a memory. It can be a pleasurable or painful memory but it has become an illusion.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
Hey +Vanessa Pareja , Wonderful insights. I would add that in order to observe the world without getting entangled with the experience, it is not enough to know only by a rational thought that we are consciousness. We need to Identify ourselves as consciousness with "all our being" moment after moment. One way this can be done is by managing to constantly experience a certain subtle emotion the is always there in the background, and can be defined by the words "I am".
@vaNickers
8 жыл бұрын
Yes thank you for clarifying that. This sense of "I am" is not a thought. One must be able to realize that all this time he's been seeing his mind and that this "I am" is not within the field of the mind.
@Stringsloth
4 жыл бұрын
I have gone unconscious two times in my life. In both times I was "conscious" inside my own consciousness, in a sort of room where I could observe - or remember, but I would say rather observe - what was going on to my physical body. In one of them I even talk to a person who just old me "You are unconscious, don't worry, you'll be back in no time". After that, both times I came back feeling amnesia and recalling as a memory what I had just "experienced". So... I can assure there's more to consciousness than just a "black screen". Not at all.
@smashedpumpkin3242
4 ай бұрын
Still the favourite video of my life
@Lucidthinking
4 ай бұрын
Thank you. Soon a whole book is coming out. I guess in about a year. It is ready in Hebrew, but needs to be translated to English (And then I'm back making videos)
@SajayanKS
2 жыл бұрын
WoW! What thoughts going through my mind these days is exactly same as what you thought 5 years before.
@Lucidthinking
2 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear so :)
@1clearningenglish600
8 жыл бұрын
Very insightful explanation. My realisations are:- 1. I am consciousness inward ... Blank screen on which photo/music/movie/experience can be projected. I can also be a projector outward onto my fellow humans' screen ... I am the observer. 2. My sensory organs and memories are the camera which gives input s for an experience. 3. My mind is the CPU PROCESSOR processing the inputs either to project xp on screen or to store the xp in my memory. 4. Now about the decoding mechanism. .. the OS ... drivers .. etc. This is the key factor. I think this is the acquired knowledge from the world around ... the Learning ... the culture ... And we keep updating our OS versions with interaction with the world.
@1clearningenglish600
8 жыл бұрын
5. Experiences can be sensations, feelings, thoughts. What I deduce is "consciousness is the ability to xp" ... the decoding mechanism is "the Learning process, the integration of all xp's n knowledge" I suppose consciousness is not the decoding mechanism.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+1C Learning English Nice insights :) There are many decoding mechanisms in our brain. For example, the light-sensitive cells in the eye produce certain chemicals when exposed to light. These chemicals are then decoded to electrical patterns. The visual information in those patterns is also decoded into differentiated object perception. That is, the eye itself does not produce the knowledge that, in the picture it receives and transmit to the brain, there are trees and flowers. This is a secondary decoding. You can call this decoding mechanism "information processing" and it is related to what you have called "the learning process". My question "what is the decoding mechanism?" relates to the decoding of information to an experience. Think of receiving a hit. The nerves send electric pulses that correspond the amount of force exerted upon them. But this information is something that any machine with an appropriate sensor could also provide. The question is, how "numeric" information, like the pulses sent by the nerves, can be transformed into an experience of pain. Think about it... A very light force may produce an experience of pleasure, like petting. This is a totally different experience than pain, but the information only gives you "numerical" instructions: First, it has measured a force of X Kg and at the second time a force of Y kg. What turns electrical patterns into an experience? As I understand it, this is the function of the screen.
@1clearningenglish600
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking Thank you for your quick response ... So what you say is the decoding mechanism of information input through neuro linguistic apparatus in various quanta of electric pulses, towards perceiving the distinct experiences is the job of the screen ... So consciousness is "the ability to experience" and "programming neurological information to a distinct experience" One more question ... if a stranger tries to prick us we feel irritated/annoying/painful ... if the same prick was done by a friend, we feel pleasure .. Same quantum of physical pulse .... Does mind processes each info input into different kinds of electro.chemical pulses so as to get a distinct xp?
@1clearningenglish600
8 жыл бұрын
+1C Learning English Secondary decoding mechanism is the "Learning /acquired knowledge " process of input information. You say primary decoding mechanism is consciousness itself. In that case I cannot conclude that all sentient beings have same consciousness. I prefer the primary decoding mechanism (may be called programming) is separate from consciousness. The decoding mechanism is distinct for each, in proportion to their evolution/exposure. Consciousness is "the ability to experience"
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+1C Learning English Q1 - Yes, if I understood you correctly Q2 - These are not the same pulses. In both cases there is a similar impulse in the tactile nerves (the feeling of pain), but the eyes and the ears transmit a different impulse. (a friend vs a stranger) So the brain receives different inputs (in total) and interprets them differently. Q3 - let's make it simple. A sentient being is any being that can feel pain. You don't have to be much developed in evolutionary terms to feel pain. Yet if an animal feels pain, then it has consciousness.
@russjames7029
8 жыл бұрын
Awesome videos man. Good stuff. Question... If all "consciousness" is identical, what is it that gives certain babies and young toddlers different personalities? Before they've had a chance to learn words and produce thoughts, or make sense of their emotions and 5 senses, you could say they're sort of in a state of pure consciousness. What is it that makes babies in this state act differently when they all have the same initial "screen". Does it just come down to genes? Huge possibility I'm just underthinking this...
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
Hey +Russ James, Good questions. From a scientific point of view, a baby doesn't start totally fresh. His genetics influence his personality and temperament. From an esoteric point of view, both mind and consciousness can exist independently of the body. There are many reports of past lives evidence, outer body experiences etc. I personally saw quite a few. If it is true that the mind can exist independently of the body, and if this is true we have more than one human life, then it is very possible that babies would have memories and tendencies from previous lives
@snoo333
8 жыл бұрын
nicely done, thank you for putting these videos together. can you please create multi part series on the ego. Understanding the mechanics of the ego is extremely important to waking up.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks. +snoo333 My first mission is the creation of 3 certain series. Later on, I will do some other videos regarding the mechanics of the inner world that will explain the ego too.
@Ramt33n
8 жыл бұрын
wow, simply put, how did you managed to explain such topic?! respect
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you :) One of my stronger qualities is the ability to understand the components of complex subjects, and I have found out that once the basic principles are understood well, it is easy to explain even complex subjects.
@Ramt33n
8 жыл бұрын
Lucid thinking already a big fan here, looking forward for more :)
@Galluxi
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video dude! Consciousness has bugged me since I was a kid lol
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
:)
@Mistrix6
8 жыл бұрын
Cool vids. Makes me think that consciousness and matter are a coexisting force that coevolve and manifest everything that exists since the moment the consciousness became self aware by experiencing matter at the beginging of time.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
Hey +Carolyn Anderson , that is a very interesting thought. I hope that in the future, quantum scientists could tell us more about this relation. At the moment, we only have the hint that the presence of an observer changes matter in the quantum level.
@dariazafote5522
3 жыл бұрын
Your videos were really interesting and well thought-out! It’s been 5 years now… I hope you’ll be back sometime, Tsur! If not, I want to thank you for sharing some of your profound thoughts with us. Cheers!
@Lucidthinking
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Daria. I will continue doing videos. In 2016 I got the chance to accomplish a previous project I was working on. Once I've finished, I will go back doing videos.
@dariazafote5522
3 жыл бұрын
@@Lucidthinking I am looking forward to them! And I wish you all the best with your project!
@juanjoseguva
8 жыл бұрын
We're talking deep cuts from Sartre here. Being is Nothingness, consciousness is a void. So cool. Great video!
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Juan José Gutiérrez Never heard of Sartre. I'll check it. Thanks for the info :)
@SharmajiIAS
8 жыл бұрын
Just excellent!! Vedic literature told the same thing 5000years ago
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Ugta Suraj Yes, of course. It is found in Advaita Vedanta, Jnana Yoga, Ashtavakra Gita and many more. They have reached these insights through certain meditative practices. My aim is to try and explain these insights with daily experiences, so they would be understandable also to people who didn't experience this meditative process.
@SuperstarSridhar
7 жыл бұрын
Excellent job, Lucid. And all the best with your presentations, It would be a boon to many if you can explain Advaita with modern examples. Good luck. :)
@n8nocircumcisebaby102
4 жыл бұрын
the veda is hymns. the boooks with such discussions were written after the veda.
@raviavanaganti1541
3 жыл бұрын
Best video ever. Plz keep doing more such videos on spiritual topics.
@Lucidthinking
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I hove this year I could start doing more videos.
@leandrosilvagoncalves1939
4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful teaching from a wonderful teacher! I have a question about the characteristic number 6 of consciousness .... Do you believe we will ever be able to answer if we all have the same consciousness? Even the different schools of Vedanta seem to disagree about this part
@Lucidthinking
4 жыл бұрын
Hey Leonardo, thank you for your comment. I'm not familiar with the question you refer to. I've never studied Vedanta. Can you clarify what the question is, or refer me to where I can read about it? By the way, I do not consider myself a teacher. I am a student.
@leandrosilvagoncalves1939
4 жыл бұрын
@@Lucidthinking Hi Tsur! Thank you very much for your reply. Even though you don't consider yourself a teacher, your videos have been a reference guide to me for some years. Wonderful work! I've found a series of videos that explain about Vedanta really well kzitem.info/door/PLeP4eulMEXiMQWB-SUjsPwbOzEdhP4xBn This video bellow gives a brief explanation about the different schools of Vedanta kzitem.info/news/bejne/2GawrGGAhpOph20 To clarify my question : I can't know where the border of my consciousness finishes and yours starts. That would make one infer that there is just one consciousness. However in the video you say that you have no way to verify that (neither do I).... Do you believe the answer will ever be found ?
@skbehera6179
2 жыл бұрын
Nice explanation of consciousness on scientific basis. Very useful explanation because every person wants explanation of every phenomenon on scientific basis. Myself clearly understood it. Thank you.
@Lucidthinking
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for you comment :)
@karunashree6791
6 жыл бұрын
Very well explained...kudos.. keep up the good work...
@rolexfuralle
8 жыл бұрын
Very pedagogic explanations of abstract concepts, will watch you other vids
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Love Romert Thanks :)
@Darksagan
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video.
@oneness1_
7 жыл бұрын
I've been reading a lot of "who am I" teachings and self enquiry and your teachings with illustrations just opened up more understanding. ...thank you! consciousness cannot see itself just like the eyes...funny but true...at a certain point, we bcome a mystery!
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
"at a certain point, we become a mystery!" indeed :)
@tyamada21
6 жыл бұрын
The Law Nam-myoho-renge-kyo represents the identity of what some scientists refer to as the ‘unified field of all consciousnesses’. In other words, it’s 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 ‘middle man’ 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’, 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 (enlightened state). We’re then able to bring 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 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.
@caviper1
5 жыл бұрын
Read the Mandukya Upanishad. Or the Ashtavakra. Or the Kebangsaan upanishad. This is also explained there. Thanks!
@caviper1
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. The perceiver cannot be the perceived... as San Francisco de Asis said: "I am looking for what is looking..."
@asstornaut1066
7 жыл бұрын
where is the red? you forgot the object it will interact. and please give me an example of changing the frequency of light will make our eyes see blue? I mean, show me a video of this fact. red appears as light interacts with the object, it has absolutely nothing to do with your brain, not even with your eyes..of course color is a product of light interacting with an object, that's utterly a fact, there is no debate about it.
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
Hey Espaço Oculto, From a physical point of view, when light interacts with an object the object absorbs some of its frequencies and reflects others. A flower seems "blue" because it is illuminated by white light. White light contains the frequency of "blue" (610-670 THz), and this is the only frequency that the blue flower reflects. If you would illuminate this flower with a red light (430-480 THz) it won't be able to reflect the frequency of blue, since red light doesn't contain this frequency. Therefore you won't see it as a blue flower. So, to start with, the color is dependent on the frequency of the electromagnetic wave that reaches our eyes and on of the object it interacts with. "please give me an example of changing the frequency of light will make our eyes see blue? I mean, show me a video of this fact." Easy, look at this photo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RGB_LED.jpg This is an RGB LED. It can produce the colors red, green and blue, but in itself is transparent. These colors are not produced by interacting with an object, but they are a result of the level of energy that the electrons in the circuit emit. Higher levels of energy creates higher frequencies of light (that is, different colors)
@narasimharaomavilla3057
7 жыл бұрын
Nice effort in attempting to explain the subtle. I have a question. At 3:19 you say that the computer is probably not experiencing. How can you tell whether computer may/may not experience as you (or your mind) cannot experience others experiences like you cannot experience my experience?
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
Hey, Narasimha Rao Mavilla, Thanks for your question. I cannot have 100% certainty that a computer, a rock or even another person can experience like I do, or can experience at all. I only know for 100% that I experience. But, based on the evidence we have, we can answer it with rather high certainty. *1) How can I tell other people experience similar experiences to me?* Because the respond to things similarly to me, and I can assume that their response was provoked by a similar experience. If a man yell because he touched fire, I can assume he feels pain, since I react the same when I touch fire, and I know I feel pain. *2) How can I tell that inanimate objects, like a rock, don't experience the world like me?* For example, I have eyes and I see. I know that if you damage my eyes, I will not be able to see. A rock has no eyes, or a similar mechanism, so we can assume a rock cannot see. *3) How can we tell that a computer cannot see (or feel pain)?* In it's essence a computer is not much more than a complex rock. Think about an *Abacus* upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Boulier1.JPG It can calculate numbers, but you won't assume it knows the numbers being calculated upon it. A computer is nothing more than a complex Abacus, made from tiny magnetic levers instead of wooden. The matter of fact, even our brain is nothing more than a complex Abacus, and this is the reason we still don't know how it is possible that the brain is responsible for consciousness. That is why I say that "I" experience, not my brain experiences. My brain certainly affects the content of the experiences, but without being connected to a consciousness, I don't think it can experience anything.
@TranSylvainie
6 жыл бұрын
Great. Nice illustration with modern analogies of very ancient thesis. This should be mentionned throughout the video.
@primalfitness5318
7 жыл бұрын
Hey man, Couple more questions for you, thanks a million for your last response by the way . You say "the experience and the experiencer are not the same " But Sam Harris talks about"Becoming Identical to the experience" in his book waking up. He also talks about "losing the feeling of self " and that " Conciousness is not an I " 2- Do you see any benefits in doing Positive daily affirmations or autosuggestion ? I hear a lot of people talk about them.Would it be like installing and playing a positive film of the screen of conciousness? (Im trying use the same example as in your video)
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
Hey Primal Fitness, Unfortunately, I can't answer your first question since I'm not familiar with the materials of Sam Harris. It may very well be a conflict of terminology. For example, I know two spiritual traditions that refer to a certain phenomenon, but one calls it *Self-remembering* and the other calls it *Self-forgetting". This is why words can be very confusing If we don't understand the phenomenon they refer to. Regarding your second question. Yes, positive daily affirmations or autosuggestion can be very efficient. It is like installing a positive film, or, using another analogy, installing a positive software.
@tyamada21
6 жыл бұрын
The Law Nam-myoho-renge-kyo represents the identity of what some scientists refer to as the ‘unified field of all consciousnesses’. In other words, it’s 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 ‘middle man’ 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’, 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 (enlightened state). We’re then able to bring 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 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.
@primalfitness5318
7 жыл бұрын
Hey man can you answer me some questions please. You say "You cannot observe conciousness" .Well I'm currently reading "Waking up" by Sam harris and he says "meditation is turning conciousness opon itself" Am I misunderstanding something or do your views differ?
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
Hey Primal Fitness, I love your question, thanks. I understand and agree with the sentence "meditation is turning consciousness upon itself". The cause of the apparent contradiction lies in the terminology. I believe Sam Harris is using the term consciousness in the usual meaning. That is the ability to be aware + the mental activity it is aware of (thoughts, emotions, and sensations). One of the main goals of meditation is to create self-awareness. This means that the consciousness and the mental activity are focused on "themselves" and not "out of themselves". For example, in a nonmeditation state, you hear a song that makes you feel sad. In a meditation state, you observe the activity of your mind while hearing the song, and you see all the thoughts it provokes and all the process that brings you eventually to feel sadness. Another possibility is that he refers to a certain kind of meditation in wich the goal is to try and observe the self. This is not really possible since the self is the observer and cannot observe itself, but it is possible for the observer to observe itself indirectly using the mind. Consciousness and mind act as an observer and a miror. The observer (consciousness) observes the mirror (mind) and see's its own reflection. For example, you can observe your thoughts describing the qualities of consciousness. Yet the most accurate reflection (I know of) of consciousness is a special emotion we have all the time, yet we don't notice it. It can be defined by the words "I am". So even though it is not possible to observe the self directly, observing it indirectly can lead to a huge transformation called Enlightenment. (Yet I haven't experienced it yet)
@anythingispopsicle
8 жыл бұрын
Wow. Now we are interested in creating a visualization of electromagnetic fields in 4D space-time using the Lorentz transformation.
@1clearningenglish600
8 жыл бұрын
Sir, I have a question. We are not only meant to perceive experience, but also we have to do actions which involves decision making. What is it that drives the actions? Is it the same consciousness that calls our actions?
@1clearningenglish600
8 жыл бұрын
Also we have an independent will to choose an action between a stimulus and the response. We have filters Good vs Bad, Like vs Dislike, Right vs Wrong, Gain vs Loss to get to Yes/No. Where does all this stuff work from? Consciousness or Self
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+1C Learning English Very good question. I ask myself this very question. At the moment, I have only partial answers. Apparently it may seem that consciousness is just a passive "sponge of experience", yet it can influence the world in at least two ways I know of: First, by mere observing something you change it. For example, we may walk barefoot for and hour, but only in the moment we feel that our feet are cold, the thought to wear shoes rise in our mind. It isn't that our feet weren't cold before. They were, but we only noticed it at a certain moment. So by experiencing the feeling of coldness, the action of wearing shoes can happen. Furthermore, This process doesn't have to be accidental. We have a special force inside wich I call "will", that apparently is somehow connected directly to the self. In spite of what many believe, "will" is not equal to desires or needs. These are of emotional and physical essence. They happen to us, it is not we who creates them. They are not voluntary. But will is something else. will is the ability to direct our attention. For example, if we try to feel the toe, and then move our attention to the knee, and then to the ear. This movement of attention is not driven by desire, or need (such in the case of feeling the coldness in the feet) but by will. attention is the connecting bridge between consciousness and the mind. consciousness experiences only the parts of the mind that are illuminated by the attention. Will is the ability to direct the attention. Will is not an experience. you cannot experience it directly. you can only experience its results. For example, when you move your attention willingly from your toe to your nose, you experience the change of toe sensations into nose sensations, but you do not experience the force that moved the attention.
@anishpshrestha
7 жыл бұрын
Great explanation!! I believe the consciousness referred in this video is called Turiya in Mandukya upanishad of Hindu philosophy.
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment, Anish. Indeed only in certain streams of Hindu philosophy (and to a certain degree also in Buddhism), I've encountered such a deep understanding of the nature of consciousness.
@shahafsagi
8 жыл бұрын
Hi Tzur. This is such a lovely series of mind-opening videos, thank you so much. I do have to disagree on one thing in this video; That when we "lose conciousness", we cannot-not experience anything. There is no such experience as a lack of experience. Therefore, in my opinion, "void" and "life" are mutually the same. Both the experience and the non-experience co-exist as one, for they cannot possibly exist without each other. In other words, life and death are both an experience. Whatever we do not experience, does no exist. As in, it isn't a "void" or a "no-thing". Hope this makes sense :D
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+nadav sagi Hey Nadav, Thank you four your answer. I didn't quite understand some parts of it, but it do make sense to me. Here are some of my comments and some questions I have that may help me understand you better. You say we cannot-not experience anything. I do not know if you ever lost consciousness. I did several times. I remember where and when I was before I lost it and remember where and when I was after it returned, But In between there is a total void - as If I didn't exist when I was unconscious. you are right - There is no such experience as a lack of experience. And in fact, I have no experience of being unconscious. The experience of being unconscious is, in fact, the experience of before and after losing consciousness. How do you get to the conclusion that void and life are mutually the same? by the fact that I'm still alive even when I'm unconscious (in void)? I feel that there are still some unanswered gaps In this conclusion, but It may very well be true. I feel that the essence of life is consciousness (not biological organism), and in its essence consciousness is void (which isn't just "nothing" but nothing that contains everything). Therefore, I agree that life and void could be the same thing. Yet I do not have enough material to conclude that this feeling is true. Do you compare "experience" to "live" and "non-experience" to "death"? Why do you say: "Whatever we do not experience, does no exist?" There are thousand of thoughts, emotions and sensations existing in your mind each moment. But only a few of them reach your consciousness. you experience only a few of them. It depends on the quantity and quality of your attention. Attention is what bridges between consciousness and the mind. Your brain processes enormous sensory data. for example, when you walk on the street your ears receive everything: the cars, the wind, the brain, your footsteps, but you hear only part of it cause you do not have enough attention.
@SuperDreammaster
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking I've been clinically dead before. Looking back on what happened on why I lost any memory of my consciousness... it may be that we lose our experience of consciousness but only that of the physical world. It's the same thing like falling asleep. My theory is that our consciousness travels into a higher plane of existence, (just like when you go higher and higher into the atmostphere it keeps getting harder and harder to breath) we just can't keep track of our consciousness because it's bound to our earthly bodies. The earth's atmosphere serves as a protection again much stronger magnetic currents in the universe.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Nico De Groote Thanks. Amazing sharing. I'm Glad your still with us :)
@EarthlyDawn
8 жыл бұрын
Congratulation, a very clear presentation. :) I'm also struggling with this issues. From what I can tell, your view is close to that of Samkhya school, with the multiplicity of consciousnesses, the distinction between consciousness and the mind and the notion that need the mind (contents of consciousness) in order to get to know consciousness. There are many question to be asked. Here is one I haven't seen in the comments. How do you ascertain that the consciousness is the same from one moment to the next? Now we have a perception of blue, afterwards a tingly feeling. There is a causal chain linking experiences, and we have some memory of them; is it enough to conclude that it is the same conciousness that is experiencing them? What if the mind starts projecting something totally unrelated to previous experience? Consider people with memory impairment; are they able to say that the conscious experience happening now is based in the same consciousness that experienced something five seconds ago, that they have no memory of? What about split-brain patients; they seem to have two independent conscious streams of experience while previously having one. It may be that you're reifing consciousness, as if it is something that has a sort of identity in time; perhaps it only raises in a moment in dependence of its "contents" only to vanish leaving place for another. Or on the contrary it can be that conciousness is only one and the separations of experience streams in time and space are caused by the multiplicity of projectors, not by that of the screens.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
Hey +Dragos Badita, Interesting question. First of all, when we speak about a change in consciousness, how can we describe this change? What changes? Consciousness itself, I.E. the observer have no properties of itself. It is like an empty space. In its essence it is nothing - therefore, it cannot be changed. This is as far as we know. It isn't impossible that consciousness do have some variable properties we do not know about. Just like the discovery of gravitational waves, lately. If they are true, then it means that space itself is something, and not nothing, as we used to think prior to Einstein's general theory of relativity. Now, suppose consciousness can change. That is you have an experiencer who is different in some manner from a second experiencer and they both switch turns for the same mind. They will both feel themselves as "you". You wouldn't be able to tell there is a difference. The examples you set refers the continuity of the projector, and not of the screen. If you would have no memory at all, remaining only with sensory inputs, you would not only lose the ability to experience the knowledge of you as yourself, but you would lose the ability to experience any knowledge at all. Knowledge requires differentiation (Here - there, big - small, red - not red, etc...) and in the human mind, this differentiation is created by memory. You would be like a newborn (assuming newborns are truly blank minded - which Is not entirely true). You would see a picture of the world without being able to tell what you see. You would not know where a tree ends and the ground begins. The continuity of consciousness is deduced by discovering that in the background of our mind there is a special emotion that is always there. An emotion that can be described by the words "I Am". We experience it all the time, yet we do not know we experience it because we are unable to differentiate it from everything else. There are special meditations aimed to silent the mind, that enables this constant emotion to become apparent. By the way, the split-brain patients are not much different than any other human beings. The do have 2 independent conscious streams of experience, but all humans have this, and much more than two. Haven't you ever seen someone promising something, and a week later denying he said so? Or when at night you say you would wake up at 6:00 AM and in the morning "you" decide "today I deserve to stay in bed". have you seen people saying something like "I always say the truth", and a minute later lying about something? Our mind is composed of numerous relatively disconnected neural groups. In split-brain patients the disconnection is full, so it easier to notice it, but I have seen the same experiments of Michael Gazzaniga reproduced with normal people. If one studies really carefully his stream of consciousness, he would see he is not one, but a legion of different people. The movie "inside out" does a pretty good job demonstrating how we really are inside.
@EarthlyDawn
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking Consciousness may be empty, but is not nothing, as it has the "property" of making experience possible. So, it is a logical possibility that it can arise and vanish. Moreover, you seem to suggest that there is an emotion, or thought that is always present in consciousness. It's not clear if this feeling is generated by our human mind (if so, why would we ascribe conciousness as being the self?), or it's an intrinsic property of consciousness itself, disproving our idea that it's without content. I will write a comment about my current understnding of the self in your video about this subject. The examples I gave were in reference to the first point in the video, that we know conciousness indirectly, via the mind. But what we have are momentary experiences (the memory impairment was meant to highlight that), and from them we try to determine that consciousness is constant and unchanging; it may be so, but it's a bit speculative. The continuity of "I am" emotion doesn't seem satisfactory as a reason. How do we know if it's there all the time if we can't distinguish it? It may be generated my the meditation itself. I incline to think that it's a basic attitude of beings, that tend to cling to whatever there is in the mind; if the meditator enters in a unified, emptied state of mind, it tends to cling to that state itself, believing "I am consciousness", until the meditator manages to relinquish it. The spit brain is really more interesting then that, if I understand it correctly. Of course, the mind is made of unnumerable processes, sometimes representing opposite things. But here is about two distinct consciousnesses in one person. We have a unity of the field of awareness-I am aware of what there is in that field, and not of what there is in another-I'm not aware of what happens in yours. In spit brain there seem to be two simultaneous fields while previously being one, each aware of its contents and not of the others.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Dragos Badita "Consciousness may be empty, but is not nothing, as it has the "property" of making experience possible" I agree, yet the interesting thing is that this property is not variable, as I see it. It Does not vanish. Like space does not disappear when there are no objects in it. Yet it has the property of enabling objects to exists. without space, 3d objects could not exist. I have a reason to believe that it is not consciousness that vanish, but it is the mind (the screen) that is being disconnected from it. To understand why I think it is so, the function of attention must be observed and understood. Attention is the connecting bridge between the mind and consciousness. I wrote about it in detail several times in the comments section. "How do we know if it's there all the time if we can't distinguish it?" I didn't say people can't distinguish it in general. Of course you potentially can, but you have to distinguish it at least once before you could do it constantly. Think about a crowd of people walking on the street every day. One of them is called "John Smith" and he is a millionaire. He walks there every day, you see him, but you don't know who he is. Then I teach you a trick to identify him. Clap your hands with a special pattern, and when he hears it he will clap too (He may be a part of a secret society :) Once you distinguish him from the rest of the crowd, you will be able to see him every day. "It may be generated my the meditation itself". It is not. Meditate, get familiar with this emotion and you will understand it's not a product of the meditation. Again, it is something you experience all the time, not only in meditation, but you have to distinguish it at least once. Once you distinguish John Smith, your memory will tell you have already seen him many times before. You just didn't know who he is.
@tonihamdan3411
6 жыл бұрын
I have a question , why is "I" constant? Why can't it be changing every second . So when I say I am feeling pain, "I" is the feeling of pain and all it's causes at that period of time. And the when I feel something else, I become that experience and it's causes at that time . Why can't the "I" be a changeable illusion of self , as in the changealble brain states. You insisted that the I is constant, but should it have to be? You even mention statements such as I am thinking, this can also state that I is the thinking at that time and it changes later
@j1567
3 жыл бұрын
This is great. Keep it up. You’re brilliant.
@Lucidthinking
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks :)
@shriramr
7 жыл бұрын
It seems to me that consciousness is the consequence of what we perceive through the five senses. Which would mean a finite and tangible range of experiences, and individual differences in the perception of consciousness. In this sense, perception of consciousness through the five senses is binary. Either I see an object, or I don't. Do animals, birds and plants possess consciousness? How would they define consciousness? We might never know the answer. Does the need to understand consciousness mean being able to use all five senses, the way humans do, or letting go of them? If not, how does the perception of consciousness change with perception, or a lack of it?
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
Hey Samathvam, Thanks for your comment and questions. Here's my answer: "consciousness is the consequence of what we perceive through the five senses" This is only partially true. We have also emotions. Those are nonsensory experiences. For example, the sight of a certain person would provoke happiness in one man and anger in another. From the point of view of the visual sense these two people experience approximately the same experience, but emotionally they have a totally different experience. In fact, emotions (and thoughts - which are a combination of sensory and emotional memories) play such a big role in our perception of the world that people would look on the same scene and "see" totally different things. " Do animals, birds and plants possess consciousness?" Animals do have consciousness. They experience pain, don't they? (I don't know the answer regarding plants) If you experience then you are conscious. "How would they define consciousness?" Don't confuse consciousness with "self-consciousness". The first is defined as the ability to have experiences. The second is having a specific experience that contains knowledge of the existence of (my) consciousness. I don't know if animals are self-conscious, but there are experiments showing that dolphins, elephants, and other advanced animals recognize themselves in the mirror, which may indicate they have a certain level of self-consciousness. "Does the need to understand consciousness mean being able to use all five senses, the way humans do or letting go of them? If not, how does the perception of consciousness change with perception, or a lack of it?" You don't need senses in order to feel emotions. a person may be blind and deaf but he could still experience emotions. In fact, reducing the sensory inputs, by closing the eyes, sitting in silence, without movement etc' enables you to understand your consciousness better since you are able to observe your inner world much better. This is what is done in meditation, for example.
@dr.satishsharma9794
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent... thanks 🙏.
@endoalley680
8 жыл бұрын
"Consciousness potentially can become anything" Can you validate that statement? Are there not limits to what consciousness can experience? Many states that our consciousness can not experience? If for example there was a fourth or fifth or even greater number of spatial dimensions as some physical theories conjecture. Or a second or third dimension of time. If the mind was trying to project this information onto consciousness. Could consciousness process that information? Or is consciousness limited to experiencing three dimensions of space and one of time? Are there other limits to consciousness?
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Endo Alley Hey Endo, It's a good question, and some clarification is required: Consciousness (or awareness) has one main property: It experiences every mental activity projected onto it. If your mind could grasp the 4th dimension, your consciousness would experience the thing your mind grasps. Let me start with a more tangible example. Einstein may understand the theory of relativity. He has mind constructions of this knowledge. His consciousness can experience what he understands. Your consciousness could experience the same thing if your mind will be able to understand the theory of relativity. This is valid to all human experiences. your consciousness can potentially experience them all. The only limitation consciousness has is that it is limited to experience only mental activity (Thoughts, Emotions, Sensations). We do not experience the external world. Let's take a chair for example. Consciousness cannot experience the chair directly. It can experience only the image of the chair - which is a visual sensation. All the mentioned above is based on my observations. Who knows, maybe a Buddha or some alien has reached a level to which his consciousness can experience the external world too.
@endoalley680
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking - Thanks for the reply. I think I understand your contention that sense information is processed along with stored memory information of previous mind states and who knows what else to create a representation of reality that the consciousness somehow perceives. My question is whether there are limits to what consciousness can perceive which are different than the limits set upon the mind by the small sliver of information we receive and process from the senses and the limits from our ability to recall stored memories of previous mind states. Another example is our inability to comprehend paradoxes such as imagining a "square circle" . Is such a paradox so obvious that it cannot exist in either the real world or the imagination? We can imagine other things which cannot exist in the real world. Or is it that perceiving or imagining a square circle is merely a trick that our projecting mind or our consciousness is incapable of doing? Is there a set of experiences , however large that set be, which is the outside limit to what consciousness can experience? I admit I have no formal training in any of these subjects. So my questions might seem a little sophomoric to someone who has studied this subject.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
Hey endo, Thanks for the question, It was written very clearly. I have a lot of training in these subjects and none of them are "formal", so don't worry :) Your question is very good. First let me address to your statement: "our inability to comprehend paradoxes such as imagining a "square circle"". Do we really unable to do so? There are many phenomena, that were considered impossible in our daily life point of view, yet thanks to Einstein's relativity theories conclusions, people has started try and imagine these "impossibilities" and you can fairly say that there are many people who manage to do so (including me). Let me give you an example. can you imagine a triangle that have 3 angles of 90 degrees? Impossible and impossible to imagine. Now, einstein comes and tell you that space can be curved so mathematically it is possible to have a triangle with three right angles. So you try to imagine this, but no luck. You have no material inside that can help you understand it. Then you may encounter this image: world.mathigon.org/resources/Dimensions_and_Distortions/sphericalD.png and eureka! - you manage to translate to your mind the concept of curving space. So you see, it is not true we cannot imagine the "impossible" things. It is only difficult since our mind doesn't have points of reference to such things. And if your mind can grasp it, your consciousness will be able to experience it. Can you imagine a 4D cube? I guess not, but there are people who can because they worked hard to figure it out. I recommend this ios app to learn how to understand 4d cube: itunes.apple.com/en/app/the-fourth-dimension/id504201783?mt=8 Secondly, our mind is not limited only to our senses. Take for example emotions. Emotions are not a construction of sensory data. Love, for example, is not a result of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting or touching something. You can be blind, deaf, and incapable to smell, taste or touch, but you will still be able to experience happiness, love, fear etc. I do not know for sure if there aren't any other limitations on that which consciousness can preceive, but all the limitations you metioned are mental limitations. Using several meditative techniques, I manages to experience things that I could never experience nor understand in normal mental state.
@tyamada21
6 жыл бұрын
The Law Nam-myoho-renge-kyo represents the identity of what some scientists refer to as the ‘unified field of all consciousnesses’. In other words, it’s 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 ‘middle man’ 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’, 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 (enlightened state). We’re then able to bring 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 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.
@matthewbracke
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the clear explanation Tsur! I have a question: Where do you think consciousness originates from?
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Matthew Bracke Thank you Matthew. I do not know for sure. I tend to believe consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe. (Like forces, space, etc...) There is a hint provided by the *quantum observer effect*: Scientists have found that a conscious observer influence the quantum realm in a way that no other phenomena we know of does. kzitem.info/news/bejne/24Ga1Xlnr4ponmk
@shoshannastrope239
8 жыл бұрын
Hello. Do you think the consciousness is divided for each living person to have one? Like from a big universal consciousness? How come one individuals consciousness stays his till his life ends? If it's disconnected from awareness when a person sleeps, so from the mind, where does it stay and how come it stays the same consciousness for the same person? Couldn't it just pass from one projector to another? I find this adhesion interesting. Also the fact that I find myself a different person now at 30 than I was at 15, much kinder and moral let's say, does this mean my counsciosness evolved or is it just the mind and the experiences? But I feel that my awareness and counciousness experience life differently. So if counciosness is the same for anyone how can one evolve to have grater awareness? How was my cat Lolo SO different in personality then my cat Tomi for example? I read how many comments of this video as I coul before falling asleep and I hope I am not repeating the same questions. I might reread them sometime. Thank you
@faustin289
4 жыл бұрын
This metaphor of a screen and how it remains blank regardless of what films you project on it....is genius. This also answers the question of whether a person who is asleep or drunk or in a coma is dead. No he isn't. It's just no film is project. Ha!
@acosmys780
8 жыл бұрын
There was a Redditor who said he experienced 2 deaths in his life. When asked what he experienced, he answered with the following: _"It was definitely not just a gap. Much like a dreamless nap, you don't just wake up and feel like time just jumped ahead. _*_You know_*_ that you've been asleep for awhile. At the same time, you can't really remember experiencing anything at all, unless you had a dream._ _So yes and no. _*_I experienced something, and that something was nothing_*_"_ His experience tells us that he was aware of his presence, and the fact that he was asleep after waking up, even when there was nothing projected into his mind. I just found it fascinating and wanted to share, because it agrees with the Advaita teachings. mic.com/articles/139785/what-happens-when-you-die-nothing-except-black-emptiness-according-to-reddit-user#.yvZBE1dsJ
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Acosmys Thanks. very interesting.
@McPheeJohn
8 жыл бұрын
Deaking with vision as one of our senses, my understanding is that the evolution of vision started with very primitive aquative organisms that survived and evolved because they had basic mechanisms that could detect the strength of sunlight. Close to the water surface was a little dangerous yet useful for growth. Being able to detect how close they were made them the 'fittest' and evloved this very early differentiation as alerted by a very primitive creation of the colur experience.
@adamq8216
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome video and very well explained!
@Lucidthinking
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks :)
@angelarapuano1315
Жыл бұрын
È un'ottima spiegazione dell'Advaita Vedanta 🙏🏻🕉️
@Lucidthinking
Жыл бұрын
Grazie. Non ho studiato Advaita vedanta, ma ho imparato l'autoconsapevolezza in un sitema diverso con un maestro italiano di nome Patrizio Paoletti
@hemchandrakhadye6695
4 жыл бұрын
I like your explanation... very practical
@Lucidthinking
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks :)
@attagirl01
5 жыл бұрын
Where does conciousness reside? Or do we i.e body and mind appear inside conciousness. If indeed our body and mind are an appearance inside the conciousness then a part cannot find the whole. So how to know for certain that our true nature = conciousness?
@thedreamarchitect6638
6 жыл бұрын
Like the screen doesn’t experience the movie, consciousness doesn’t experience the projection, since consciousness is infinite and changeless there can be only one screen
@radhikachowdary269
6 жыл бұрын
Great video..thank you..you answered the questions I had very well
@Patriot-mt8kl
Жыл бұрын
If not completely...atleast I understand what consciousness is...to some extent...good vdo.🙏
@Lucidthinking
Жыл бұрын
Thanks :)
@dfhzrf
7 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video. Congratulations. Two questions: What do you think regarding panpsychism? and what do you think about using certain substances (LSD, DMT, Mushroom) to expand our mental states?
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
Hey Marcotulio Garbanzo, Thanks for your questions. I'm not too familiar with the details of panpsychism so I'll answer only about its main attribute, as I know it. "panpsychism is the view that consciousness, mind or soul (psyche) is a universal and primordial feature of all things" I tend to believe it is the truth, yet at the moment I don't have enough evidence or strong arguments to feel with high certainty that it is so. Regarding using certain substances in order to expand our mental states: I've never used these substances and all my knowledge on the subject is from external sources. I use meditative techniques to expand my mental states. From what I've learned, the use of these substances may be very dangerous if it is not done with the guidance of an expert. In any way, even a correct use of these substances does not bring permanent results. only glimpses. Here is a piece of text from the book "In search of the miraculous" by P.D.Ouspensky that deals with this subject: "There is another question that interests me very much," I said. "There are substances which yogis take to induce certain states. Might these not be, in certain cases, narcotics? I have myself carried out a number of experiments in this direction and everything I have read about magic proves to me quite clearly that all schools at all times and in all countries have made a very wide use of narcotics for the creation of those states which make 'magic' possible." "Yes," said G. "In many cases these substances are those which you call 'narcotics' But they can be used in entirely different ways. There are schools which make use of narcotics in the right way. People in these schools take them for self-study; in order to take a look ahead, to know their possibilities better, to see beforehand, 'in advance,' what can be attained later on as the result of prolonged work. When a man sees this and is convinced that what he has learned theoretically really exists, he then works consciously, he knows where he is going. Sometimes this is the easiest way of being convinced of the real existence of those possibilities which man often suspects in himself. There is a special chemistry relating to this. There are particular substances for each function. Each function can either be strengthened or weakened, awakened or put to sleep. But to do this a great knowledge of the human machine and of this special chemistry is necessary. In all those schools which make use of this method experiments are carried out only when they are really necessary and only under the direction of experienced and competent men who can foresee all results and adopt measures against possible undesirable consequences. The substances used in these schools are not merely 'narcotics' as you call them, although many of them are prepared from such drugs as opium, hashish, and so on. Besides schools in which such experiments are carried out, there are other schools which use these or similar substances, not for experiment or study but to attain definite desired results, if only for a short time. Through a skillful use of such substances a man can be made very clever or very strong, for a certain time. Afterwards, of course, he dies or goes mad, but this is not taken into consideration. Such schools also exist. So you see that we must speak very cautiously about schools. They may do practically the same things but the results will be totally different.
@dfhzrf
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your anwers :) If you are interested to learn about panpsychism I recommend you to read Galen Strawson's article "why physicalism entails panpsychism". I have used these substances some times (specifically LSD, Cannabis and DMT) And I have found they can be very interesting experiences and they can open your mind to new ideas and feelings. I think you can gain a lot from them but they certaintly won't lead you to achieve enlightenment. Nonetheless I recommend you to read "food of the gods" by Terence Mckenna.
@COOLGODBOSS
5 жыл бұрын
I agree I have said many o these things you taught us in this video. Great great video. Well understood.
@Lucidthinking
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks :)
@princessbutterfly3513
3 жыл бұрын
Then what about the people who loss their consciousness and become mentally ill?
@jonesgerard
7 жыл бұрын
this is very good, its funny. and we take it all for granted
@adityaveerparmar6244
4 жыл бұрын
Hello, amazing video. I was wondering what happens to our consciousness when we dream? How do you explain dreams? Also how can this explain manifestation and law of attraction? How can we think thoughts and manifest it?
@TheMetalGod1984
7 жыл бұрын
How can we say that the qualitative change that we experience with change in frequency is merely an activity in the brain and not a quality of 'something that has the wavelength' itself? What you are saying is that we see things merely because we have eyes. However I feel we see things because we have eyes (or consciousness) + the objects have an inherent "quality to be visible".
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
Hey TheMetalGod1984, thanks for your comment. This dilemma is, in-fact, very easy to solve. As you know, there are people who are color blind. They see the same waves-length you see, but their brain/eyes interpret them as a different color. I personally had even experienced how each one of my eyes saw different colors: I was sleeping in a posture that put pressure on one of my eyes. When I woke up the sky looked blue in one eye and purple in the other. So the nature of the color is not in the electromagnetic wave, but in the interpretation of our eye-brain mechanism.
@CRCOCOX
7 жыл бұрын
Muchas gracias por el vídeo, gracias por los subtítulos
@SuperDreammaster
8 жыл бұрын
I probably missed it in the video but why is it that the experience of who I am doesn't change who I am?
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Nico De Groote Good question. I can answer in two ways: one Theoretical and one that you can experience Think of the sea. The wind creates many waves in the sea. The waves change all the time. It may seem that the sea is changed, yet the water remains the same water. The part in you who observes is apparently being changed when it observe an emotion or a thought, but the truth is that, like the water, it remains the same. You can also experience it. In our daily life, our attention gets stolen by our thoughts, emotions and sensations. When they arrive we identify with them so badly, that we feel we are them. Yet, if you practice meditation and manage to calm your mind and observe the thoughts and emotions come and go, at a certain point you can see that there is a distance between you (the observer) and the thought/emotions/sensations. You feel the same, even though you experience the same emotion or thought. thanks the distance you do not identify with them and you can understand that the observer is still there and was always there without a change.
@SuperDreammaster
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking Thx, I get it now :)
@hlee697
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for fantastic video. If philosophical zombies exist, they may not have "this screen" you explained. Do you believe there can be a philosophical zombie? or are animals P-zombie?
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
Hey Heonsoo, thanks for the comment. Theoretically philosophical zombies are possible since theoretically all expressive functions (movement, speaking, breathing and even information processing) can be explained without the necessity of the existence of experience. A computer is a philosophical zombie. For example, it can perceive an image of a flower using a camera and tell you it is a flower thanks to an algorythm of image identification. Yet the computer does not SEE the image since It does not have "the screen", that is the capacity to experience. There are two other things that I see important to say regarding this topic: 1) A normal human being cannot be a philosophical zombie since my observation showed me that many of our expressive functions are a result of experience. For example, someone may walk on a cold day without a coat not feeling he is cold because he is accompanied by a lovely girl. His body senses the coldness and produce goosebumps, but the person himself does not feel cold. Once the girl leaves he suddenly become aware that he is cold. He experiences it and starts to shake. This isn't a very good example but it is meant to show that in human beings there is a tight connection between experiencing and behavior. If a certain human being was a philosophical zombie, I believe he wouldn't have a rich spectrum of behaviors like normal humans since many of our behaviors are dependent on having experienced the stimuli that reached us. 2) We tend to think that only humans and animals have the ability to experience, but there is no prevention that plants, minerals, single cells, molecules and in fact everything in the universe may have consciousness. As I see it, at the moment, consciousness is independent of matter and energy. Certain matters and energies in the brain (like electrical patterns and chemical signals) may serve as a code for consciousness to interpret. For example, single cells have a lower level of all the functions of human beings. They eat, breath, reproduce, sense the environment, react and even move towards a desired target. Are these cell philosophical zombies? We humans have nothing that theses cells don't have that can explain consciousness, so they may very well have consciousness.
@Lagann11
6 жыл бұрын
Well put, my friend
@loveliveholistically
7 жыл бұрын
A very good video. Thank you
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
:)
@ShareefBrooks
8 жыл бұрын
this is wonderful. really enjoyed it.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Shareef Brooks Thanks for the feedback :) By the way, I see you are from the states, yet you have an Arab first name. Do you happen to speak Arabic? I seek to translate the video subtitles to Arabic, but I didn't find yet someone who could help me with it.
@ShareefBrooks
8 жыл бұрын
I apologies for the late response. To answer your question, I am half Egyptian and half Puerto Rican born and raised in New York City. I am ashamed that I do not speak any of these languages; I only know the bad words. I don’t have any family members who could translate this fantastic and perfectly explained video you posted. It would have been a great honor to work with you on that for free since I believe the consciousness is in my opinion the most important topic to understand. It is sad how language in some ways separates us as people for understanding each other when a topic like the consciousness (and all the videos you posted) should be learned and understood around the world (in my personal opinion). I hope you find someone soon to translate. You could always go on a website called fiverr.com I’m sure someone there will do it for only $5.00’s. I’ve tried them before and their service is great for the most part. Keep up the good work by the way.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Shareef Brooks Hey Shareef, thanks for your response and for the tip. Also my grandparents came from very different countries, and I speak none of their languages. I'm sure I'll find someone to help me with the translation. Until now people from many countries around the globe helped me with the translation, including someone from Afganistan and someone from Vietnam.
@musicalmanojj
5 жыл бұрын
Consciousness does develop the ability to observe itself without mind and this is the ultimate experience. It means, experience and experiencer becomes one and that's when, material manifestation is no more needed. This is state of Buddha or other enlighten beings. Thanks
@howitworks8490
7 жыл бұрын
YOU. ARE. AMAZING.
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
:)
@howitworks8490
7 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking So does where does consciousness go when the brain goes away?
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
I don't know for certain. There is various evidence that shows that consciousness is not a product of the body and continue to exist after clinical death (brain death). One of them is the research of near-death experiences when people who died clinically and were restored could give detailed information about experiences they had during the times they were dead. Some of them also told they were hovering above their body, and could give detailed descriptions about the medical team treating them.
@howitworks8490
7 жыл бұрын
But all of that was just a result of hallucination and abnormal activity in the brain though.
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
No, that was only an attempt to "rationally" explain those experiences. In clinical death, there is no brain activity, so there was a suggestion that near death experiences are a result of the last flash of activity before the brain shuts down. This explanation is not backed by evidence, as much as I know, and has a lot of holes' in it. Watch this interview with Dr. Sam Parnia kzitem.info/news/bejne/qJ6DsHx_kpmBfag
@terriparkin
8 жыл бұрын
In Buddhist philosophy and the practices within the Vajrayana System of Tibetan Buddhism the aspect of consciousness being described is "naked Awareness" or Rigpa. Many volumes written and many practices relative to awakening this aspect of one's experiences.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+terri parkin Hey terry, thank you very much for the information. Most Buddhist believers that comment on my video claims that there is no "I". I think that they misunderstood this concept, and that "no self" means that the perception of individual, personal self is elusive. Yet, the pure awareness does exists, and it is the real (non-personal) self. What do you think?
@EarthlyDawn
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking Buddha's view is quite clear on this. Here is a quote from Culasaccaka Sutta: "Any kind of consciousness whatever, whether past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, far or near-a disciple of mine sees all consciousness as it actually is with proper wisdom thus: 'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self'" In his teaching the whole notion of identifiying with something, be it the body, feeling, thoughts or the states of rapture and empty awareness is misguided and leads to suffering.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Dragos Badita Yes, this is correct. I think it is also interesting to understand why anything you identify with is not yourself. You are consciousness, an expereiecer. Yet you cannot see yourself. You can only see your mind. So even if you identify yourself as consciousness, you are practically identifying with a thought. The thought "I am consciousness". Everything we can experience is not us. The fact that we cannot find (see) us, does not necessarily imply we do not exist. Some experiences define who we are better than others. The thought "I am consciousness" defines better who I am than the thought "I am a body". As I understand it, the most accurate experience describing consciousness is a constant feeling that can be described by the words "I am". According to Jnana Yogis and Advaita Vedanta masters, focusing the attention on that feeling long enough brings to the realization of the self. That is, identifying with the true self (Or enlightenment). You can try a certain "quick" technique that works for me. (I don't know if it works also for others). Try to focus your attention simultaneously on your sight, your hearing, and your physical sensation. We assume it is already so, but if you try you will see your attention focuses naturally at one at a time. Once I manage to simultaneously pay attention to all three, I feel myself exist in the center or "crossing" of these three axis. Thus, strongly produces the feeling of "I am". (I recommend doing it with the eyes closed - focusing the attention of the sight of blackness)
@EarthlyDawn
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking There seems to be a difference between the teaching of the Buddha and Vedanta (and some buddhist schools). For Buddha consciousness is dependently arisen and impermanent. Moreover, he recognizes several meditative states, one being called "the base of infinite consciousness". This states are conditiones states, they do not represent a kind of metaphysical, absolute truth the way Vedanta seem to view them; they are brought about by means such as a sustained flow of attention and seclusion from sensory and mental input. But in regard to this states as well one has to abandon the feeling of "I am". It is possible that the difference is only of semantics, both traditions reffering to the same "enlightenment"; but it can be that there is a real difference of realization. I see what you're reffering to with the feeling of "I am", but I'm not sure what conclusions may legitimately be drawn from it (other than "here is a feeling of 'I am"). My own meditative experience is not enough yet to make me certain which tradition is right, if any. So for me it's just speculation at this point. I might as well stop. :)
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Dragos Badita :) From my experience, many contradictions betweens spiritual traditions comes from the inability of its followers to understand the true meaning of the original teachings since they lack a corresponding level of being to enable them to experience these truths. Higher truths are very difficult to explain with common words. Common words are associated with daily experiences, and therefore, it is difficult to use them to explain rare and subtle experiences. The teachers of those traditions do everything they can to transform us their experience with common words, but those words would inevitably be interpreted in an incorrect way. True Esoteric schools put much more weight on exercises and experiments than oral teaching, since, from a certain point, only the first can create new experiences. I believe that if the Buddha, Jesus, Rama, Krishna, Lao Tze and other enlightened folks would have spoken to each other, they would have agreed on most things.
@astroyogui
7 жыл бұрын
Don Juan le dice a Castaneda que los seres humanos somos un sentimiento, un darse cuenta, un tener conciencia, contenido en el cuerpo...Somos PERCEPTORES...
@jackmansfield4453
7 жыл бұрын
Hi +Lucid thinking I was wondering, when you say during meditation you clear your mind of everything, how then does your consciousness experience anything at all if without the mind it is a void? Thanks
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
Hey jack. Good question. Let me be more specific. when I say that during meditation I clear my mind, I mean that the thoughts and associations cease (or diminish). Yet I still experience the senses, internal sensations of the body, and emotions. So consciousness doesn't become void, yet there is a sensation of extreme silence and calmness. The senses and the internal sensations of the body can also be diminished, but this is much more difficult and require extreme calmness or even the use of special means, like a floating chamber. But even in unique moments when I stopped feeling my body, I always had experiences, especially the background emotion of existence, that can be defined by the words "I am".
@koonyak
3 жыл бұрын
@@Lucidthinking what would u call that an "emotion"?
@Lucidthinking
3 жыл бұрын
Do you mean "why" do I consider the experience of "I" or self an emotion? @@koonyak
@koonyak
3 жыл бұрын
@@Lucidthinking yes. There are many different emotions in our body and that can be confusing if I is also an emotion
@Lucidthinking
3 жыл бұрын
There are different types of emotions. The most common are polar emotions: like, dislike, anger, fear, joy, sadness, etc... There are more delicate emotions that are neutral. Belief is one of them. If I believe or don't believe there is a lion in the backyard, this isn't just a mental derivation. After one comes to a conclusion, one experiences an emotion of belief in the conclusion. Other delicate emotions are emotions that have content (like thoughts), but this content usually cannot be expressed in words. When we look at an artwork, we experience a certain reality. Change one detail in the artwork and you will fill something different. You cannot explain the difference between the two in words, yet you feel it. Another example is the first day of summer or the first rain. Those usually produce special emotions that cannot be defined by other simpler emotions like joy or sadness. One can tell all these are all emotions by the way they are experienced. Emotions "feel" different than thoughts and physical sensations. The experience of self has this same 'feel' like the subtle emotions I've described. @@koonyak
@Stringsloth
4 жыл бұрын
have gone unconscious two times in my life. In both times I was "conscious" inside my own consciousness, in a sort of room where I could observe - or remember, but I would say rather observe - what was going on to my physical body. In one of them I even talk to a person who just old me "You are unconscious, don't worry, you'll be back in no time". After that, both times I came back feeling amnesia and recalling as a memory what I had just "experienced". So... I can assure there's more to consciousness than just a "black screen". Not at all.
@Lucidthinking
4 жыл бұрын
very interesting. thanks :)
@susannayeung5545
Жыл бұрын
I wonder what is your background. Do you have background in physics or neuroscience? You explain these difficult concepts so clearly in scientific term. congratulation and thank you. Please Keep it up.
@Lucidthinking
Жыл бұрын
Hi Susana, Yes I have some background in Physics, and I have also studied self awareness for many years.
@susannayeung5545
Жыл бұрын
@@Lucidthinking Thanks for your reply. I am a new watcher of your videos. As expressed by your viewers, you made very clear explanation on something that is difficult to understand, we all want you to see you back and make more presentation. Would you come back to KZitem soon? Where would we be able to find your teaching?
@Lucidthinking
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. In the last two years I have written a book and I hope it will be publish by the end of the year. Once It's published I will return to do regular videos. The book contains ideas of almost all the videos I ever wanted to do (content for about 75 videos) @@susannayeung5545
@susannayeung5545
Жыл бұрын
@@Lucidthinking great! All the best with your best seller book to be.
@sriseta1379
6 жыл бұрын
Great video content..good work..thank you.. 🖒
@inglestaemtudo
8 жыл бұрын
Excellent!!! It seems science & Philosophy merge with Spirituality at this essential point.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
Indeed! One of my goals in creating this channel is to show the connection points between science, philosophy, and spirituality. One of the future series I plan to create is "the true principles of science", that is going to deepen the philosophical understanding of the principles of science, and this will show that even spirituality can be studied in a scientific way.
@rbecerramiami
7 жыл бұрын
Nicely done
@jdyd3253
6 жыл бұрын
Does the experiencer can also be a controller?
@mercuriusl
7 жыл бұрын
When i go to sleep or lose consciousness, do I cease to exist?
@lowkeyotaku2373
7 жыл бұрын
So in the Matrix the "blank loading screen" is their consciousness...amazing
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
:)
@johannesbuble3004
6 жыл бұрын
muy buen video gracias por la traduccion
@rubyd33
8 жыл бұрын
So, (in your opinion) is it possible to BE 'prosperity consciousness'?
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
Yes, but let's not confuse terms. In the terminology used in this video, what people call "prosperity consciousness" will be called "prosperity mind". The normal usage of the word 'consciousness' doesn't distinguish between the experiencer and the experience, the observer and the observed. Once we understand the difference between the two, we are able to understand many other things. So the same consciousness can experience a prosperity mind or a scarcity mind.
@rubyd33
8 жыл бұрын
Thank You!
@swagmasterdoritos
5 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't consciousness being aware that awareness of contents of mind is occuring be enough to deduce directly that consciousness (you) exists? You seem to suggest that one can only indirectly know themselves via rationalization as opposed to directly in an emperical manner but being aware of things can lead to being aware that you're aware of things and then at THAT point no more is needed for direct self awareness (sure it could go on infinitley but it doesn't feel neccesary), Also I think it'd be more accurate to say consciousness, in it's essence, is an empty vessel of sorts as opposed to "nothing" when there isn't anything being projected onto the screen, the vessel isn't activated (not nothing) but can be activated to the extent that the content is presnet (projecter). Saying it's nothing in essence would seem to imply that there is no difference between whether or not there is a screen present or not, as if a projecter could generate a scene (a conscious experience) without a screen (i.e. the experiencer). maybe i'm wrong, maybe this is just semantics, either way great content :)
@Lucidthinking
5 жыл бұрын
Hey Swagmasterdoritos, Thanks for your comment. As to your questions: 1) When I say one can know itself only indirectly, I mean that you, consciousness ,cannot experience consciousness, it can only experience different emotions, thoughts, and sensations that construct a representation of the concept of consciousness. 2) yes, I agree with you, consciousness is definitely not nothing, or else it wouldn't have any properties. Its main property is the ability to experience thoughts, emotions, and sensations, therefore an empty vessel is a better description.
@abhip499
8 жыл бұрын
very well told almost reached there. But if consciousness is described as void that may create a problem. If something is describe to be void there has to be something before it. So consciousness is nothing but a state of experiencing the death of catastrophic mind. So consciousness is not separate from mind it is a thought in the mind that tells "I am not". to each and every attachment and experience. But since it is still a thought It can never be consciousness. This awareness is consciousness. Consciousness is subtility with in the subtilness. But It is almost beautifully explained here great work
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
I agree with you. There is no contradiction with what I have said in the video. Consciousness is void. That is, it has no properties. The description of consciousness as void is a thought. Consciousness is not an experience. you cannot experience consciousness directly. It is the experiencer itself. if the mind dies or absent, (and by "mind" I don't mean only thoughts, but also emotions and sensations) you will have no experience at all. Not even "blackness". The thought "I am consciousness" or "I am not the mind" are not the consciousness itself. They are an Indirect experience of consciousness, but a direct experience of consciousness it not possible. It is logically impossible just like one cannot wet water.
@abhip499
8 жыл бұрын
your explanations are good and organised it will be a great help for seekers. Thank you lucid thinking :)
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
:)
@abhip499
8 жыл бұрын
But who created consciousness will remain as mystery for ever. consciousness can neither be created nor destroyed is the answer then bingo we come to the conclusion that consciousness is source of energy or light. But consciousness is not that. Can we measure consciousness ?
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
"But who created consciousness will remain as a mystery for ever." Maybe and maybe not. I don't know. "Consciousness can neither be created nor destroyed" Perhaps and perhaps not. I don't know. "Can we measure consciousness ?" Not at the moment, as much as I know...
@michaelcashmore8893
8 жыл бұрын
As you say when we sleep the "screen" of conscousness goes blank or dark and then would be restored on awakenin. You say it is because there are no films projected or experienced when sleeep. But the brain or mind cannot be switched off surely just as we cannot switch off our senses. Therefore I see an alternative and ask what may activate the "screen" what is the source, creator of consciusness. Consciousness may not change but in essence its very existence is a mystery or is it? Also the idea of individual and collective "screens" seems very structured, some prefer to think as conscousness as a matrix on which films/experience can be experienced viz visual effects of the science fiction films where data is maniplated as data in a kind of hologram effect?! I really enjoy your presentations thank you.
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Michael Cashmore You have a very sharp thinking. Indeed, as I understand it, in deep sleep, it is not the mind that shuts down and neither the consciousness. It is the connection between them that is interrupted. It is not a mere theory. There really is a bridge connecting the mind and consciousness, and it is called Attention. Attention and consciousness are two different functions, yet they are closely related. Consciousness is always there, attention comes and goes. Attention is the connecting bridge between consciousness and the mind. The mind (Thought, emotions and sensations) is almost always active, but only a small part of our mental activity reach to our consciousness and is experienced. Most of our thoughts, emotions and sensations remain unconscious. We are only conscious of the mental activity that is "illuminated" by the attention. Attention is directed mostly accidentally, but we can also direct attention to experience a desired experience willingly. Let me give you an example: You may suddenly feel cold. This doesn't mean your body didn't feel cold a moment ago, but only now your attention is focused on this sensation, and so you experience it. Yet this was an accident. you can also choose to move your attention intentionally to your nose, for example, and feel the temperature of your nose. As you said, we know that our senses (and even the brain) continue to be active during deep sleep. I believe that the absence of experience is not due to the shut-down of consicousnees, but because of the shut-down, or shift in attention.
@michaelcashmore8893
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking the time to reply with a very lucid answer and I can accept this wholeheartedly. If you have the time can you also address my question re collective consciousness and even the source of consciousness as a possible "God" connection?
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
Hi +Michael Cashmore, I don't have definite answers regarding the nature of collective consciousness, or the source of it. I can share with you the theory I tend to believe in, yet, for me, it is still a theory, that is, I cannot verify it. Regarding collective consciousness, I believe it should be better called collective mind. The minds of most people share some similar elements that got there by the collective experience of humanity. Take for example the abuse of women by man all along history. Even if today you are a woman born in a liberal country to a liberal family, you will be influenced by this history. Even by reading books describing woman abuse, something of that event influences you. Regarding the source of consciousness. I have reasons to believe that there is only one consciousness in the universe, experiencing itself as an infinite number of individual point of views (minds). I believe my consciousness, your consciousness and the consciousness of an animal are all the same one consciousness, they only see the world through a different mind. So, I am you and we are everybody else. If you like, you may call us, this one consciousness, god.
@michaelcashmore8893
8 жыл бұрын
Collective consciousness = collective experience, very practical. One consciousness = God, definately a starting point to explore.
@alfonsoesteves5090
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video, a couple of questions: Does consciousness manifest itself in some way? (or it just experiences and nothing more) If yes: how? wouldn't that be the mind? If not: then how did you realize that consciousness exists? (that it isn't just the mind)
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
Hey +Alfonso Esteves, Thanks for your question. For your first question, I have answered before a similar question: "is consciousness passive?" I attach the answer below. For your second question, as I see it, the mind is and is not a manifestation of consciousness and. It depends on what you refer as the mind. This is a bit more complicated We know, both from self-experiences and scientific experiments, that the mind exists separately from consciousness. We have thoughts and sensations we are not aware of. You can suddenly notice that your feet are cold, but it doesn't mean they weren't feeling cold before you noticed it. It means that the "sensation" of coldness suddenly got in touch with your consciousness. Yet, if we are not aware of these mental activities, they cannot be called experiences. As I understand it, the mind exists separately from consciousness, as an information, as a code. This information becomes an experience only when it gets in touch with consciousness. In this sense, the mind is a manifestation of consciousness. Besides the metaphor of the screen, there is another metaphor for the relation between consciousness and the mind, that presents the aspect of the mind that isn't separated from consciousness. It is like the relation between a sea and its waves. The mind is like waves upon the sea of consciousness. For your third question, read this article: lucidthinking.org/why-is-the-experiencer-separate-from-the-experience/ Here is the answer related to your first question: Very good question. I ask myself this very question. At the moment, I have only partial answers. Apparently it may seem that consciousness is just a passive "sponge of experience", yet it can influence the world in at least two ways I know of: First, by mere observing something you change it. For example, we may walk barefoot for and hour, but only in the moment we feel that our feet are cold, the thought to wear shoes rise in our mind. It isn't that our feet weren't cold before. They were, but we only noticed it at a certain moment. So by experiencing the feeling of coldness, the action of wearing shoes can happen. Furthermore, This process doesn't have to be accidental. We have a special force inside wich I call "will", that apparently is somehow connected directly to the self. In spite of what many believe, "will" is not equal to desires or needs. These are of emotional and physical essence. They happen to us, it is not we who creates them. They are not voluntary. But will is something else. will is the ability to direct our attention. For example, if we try to feel the toe, and then move our attention to the knee, and then to the ear. This movement of attention is not driven by desire, or need (such in the case of feeling the coldness in the feet) but by will. attention is the connecting bridge between consciousness and the mind. consciousness experiences only the parts of the mind that are illuminated by the attention. Will is the ability to direct the attention. Will is not an experience. you cannot experience it directly. you can only experience its results. For example, when you move your attention willingly from your toe to your nose, you experience the change of toe sensations into nose sensations, but you do not experience the force that moved the attention.
@1clearningenglish600
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking So 1. Consciousness is the ability to xp 2. Will is the ability to direct Attention 3. Mind is the information package of xp's n memories 4. Attention is the bridge linking Consciousness and Mind Who am I? Consciousness or Will or Self? What is self?
@bobbyboywonder12
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking does the "blank screen" have any ability to decide what gets shown on it?
@Lucidthinking
8 жыл бұрын
+Stevie Wee good question. I ask myself this very question. At the moment, I have only partial answers. Apparently it may seem that consciousness is just a passive "sponge of experience", yet it can influence the world in at least two ways I know of: First, by mere observing something you change it. For example, we may walk barefoot for and hour, but only in the moment we feel that our feet are cold, the thought to wear shoes rise in our mind. It isn't that our feet weren't cold before. They were, but we only noticed it at a certain moment. So by experiencing the feeling of coldness, the action of wearing shoes can happen. Furthermore, This process doesn't have to be accidental. We have a special force inside wich I call "will", that apparently is somehow connected directly to the self. In spite of what many believe, "will" is not equal to desires or needs. These are of emotional and physical essence. They happen to us, it is not we who creates them. They are not voluntary. But will is something else. will is the ability to direct our attention. For example, if we try to feel the toe, and then move our attention to the knee, and then to the ear. This movement of attention is not driven by desire, or need (such in the case of feeling the coldness in the feet) but by will. attention is the connecting bridge between consciousness and the mind. consciousness experiences only the parts of the mind that are illuminated by the attention. Will is the ability to direct the attention. Will is not an experience. you cannot experience it directly. you can only experience its results. For example, when you move your attention willingly from your toe to your nose, you experience the change of toe sensations into nose sensations, but you do not experience the force that moved the attention.
@bobbyboywonder12
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucid thinking I just bought a wall mural of the Hubble ultra deep field observation. Nothing inspires more awe in me than viewing this image. Merely looking at this photo evokes some of the greatest mysteries that I would love to know the answers to. But possibly more, I want to understand consciousness. How is something happening? Why is something happening rather than not happening. How many atoms does it take to make those atoms experience something, to be able to understand what experience is. This may be the greatest question that one could ever have. Even more so than understanding the most hidden and incomprehensible laws of physics and beginnings of the universe. The fact that something is at all happening is truly the most incomprehensible thing I could ever imagine.
@guruyaya
2 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure I agree with the statement that consciousness is unchanging. I'll start with your analogy: the screen actually changes when a film is projected on it. The light exsert some energy on it, and adds energy to electrons. In time, light can create changes in the fabric of the screen. The same with consciousness: there is no way of knowing what the events do to it, but as every interaction in life changes all sides of an interaction, we can assume changes to the consciousness are possible and probible
@Lucidthinking
2 жыл бұрын
Hey Yair, Thanks for your thoughts. Of course, the screen is only an analogy to consciousness, and analogies are good to represent only some properties of a phenomenon but not all of them. Normally, for us, a screen is something that does not change after you project a film onto it, so this is why I've chosen this analogy. I can give you a different analogy from the field of physics. According to the general theory of relativity, if you place a massive object in space, it will curve the space. If you will remove it, the space will return to its normal form. There won't be any residues. Do we know it for sure? No. This is what the current observations tell us. It might change with new observations. At the moment the observations I had, tell me that consciousness does not change. Furthermore, I have no idea how can we detect changes in consciousness itself, as we can only observe its content.
@clayhorsemusic
6 жыл бұрын
Your descriptions are simple and elegant - thank you! I'm wondering if you've thought about this. In the undisciplined Mind, the thoughts can run rampant, like the patients taking over the asylum, or as the Buddhists say, "Monkey Mind". Yet we are able to exert some control when it comes to how the mind behaves itself. We can decide to think different thoughts, to forgive instead of hate, in other words we can change our minds. Now the paradigm of Consciousness being a passive Experiencer or Observer would preclude it from exerting influence over the Mind in terms of what content the Awareness would prefer to experience. So where does this "adult supervision" enter the stage? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Is the Mind capable of self-regulation? Is this not above its pay grade? Or does Consciousness do more than just sit back and watch the show - it can change the channels? I'd like to hear your ideas on this. Cheers!
@Lucidthinking
6 жыл бұрын
Very good question. I ask myself this very question. At the moment, I have only partial answers. Apparently it may seem that consciousness is just a passive "sponge of experience", yet it can influence the world in at least two ways I know of: First, by mere observing something you change it. For example, we may walk barefoot for and hour, but only in the moment we feel that our feet are cold, the thought to wear shoes rise in our mind. It isn't that our feet weren't cold before. They were, but we only noticed it at a certain moment. So by experiencing the feeling of coldness, the action of wearing shoes can happen. Furthermore, This process doesn't have to be accidental. We have a special force inside wich I call "will", that apparently is somehow connected directly to the self. In spite of what many believe, "will" is not equal to desires or needs. These are of emotional and physical essence. They happen to us, it is not we who creates them. They are not voluntary. But will is something else. will is the ability to direct our attention. For example, if we try to feel the toe, and then move our attention to the knee, and then to the ear. This movement of attention is not driven by desire, or need (such in the case of feeling the coldness in the feet) but by will. attention is the connecting bridge between consciousness and the mind. consciousness experiences only the parts of the mind that are illuminated by the attention. Will is the ability to direct the attention. Will is not an experience. you cannot experience it directly. you can only experience its results. For example, when you move your attention willingly from your toe to your nose, you experience the change of toe sensations into nose sensations, but you do not experience the force that moved the attention. Finally by observing carefully how rememberence and movement works, I've discovered that all movement is in fact, a rememberence and all rememberence is in fact observation. This is a very delicate observation, and it is quite difficult to observe this mechanism. I saw that when I try to remember something, for example trying to remember the name of someone, I move my attention to different locations in the memory. When my attention illuminates a memory its starts to "play", that is, I start to experience it's content, but if the content doesn't match the memory I seek, the experience is disrupted, and my attetion moves to another location in my memory, until there is a match. Most of the times the location is well know, (like remebering one's mother's name), so the answer is emmidiate. It is rather easy to understand that rememberece can be explained by the function of observation, but what about movement. Let's say I want to move my arm up and down. If consciouness is only an observer, how can it order my arm? I've discovered that movement is rememberence. The is no "button" to be pressed in order to lift my arm, but there is a memory to be read. The memory of the orders of the movement. This memory is not a mental memory, but a sensoric one. So by moving my attention to the memory of movement and experiencing it, my arm moves.
@clayhorsemusic
6 жыл бұрын
Some excellent observations. Yes, it appears the Will is the catalyst for the selection process - good point. Perhaps some of the behavior of the attention being directed by the Will, and experienced by Consciousness is analogous to the way the eye focuses on a single object, which can be both conscious and unconscious. Also I really like your notion of how the attention searches memory locations for a match. This explains why we usually associate a "tag" with what we're looking for - a color, shape, smell, etc. Usually the most unique or distinguishing feature of the target.
@greenpeace2214
4 жыл бұрын
Is conciousness just exist in complex living organism with "brain, brain stem, and parasympatic nerve" or there are conciousness outside this , is universe conscious?
@Lucidthinking
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Bali Property, Thanks for your question. I cannot answer this question because to answer it I need a piece of the "puzzle" I don't have. First, let's see what pieces of the puzzle we do have: So we know from our own experience that we have consciousness (we feel, we see, etc... ). We also know that all changes in consciousness we have seen so far, are correlated with neural activity, and if certain nerves are severed we stop experiencing certain experiences ( A man in a wheelchair can't feel his legs, etc... ) Nevertheless, as I've concluded in the video, consciousness is not a product of the nervous system, as its existence cannot be explained by any of the known physical laws. With those pieces of the puzzle, we can conclude that consciousness exists independently of the nervous system and somehow decodes neural activity into experiences. The question remains: What is the mechanism that consciousness uses to decode neural activity into an experience? If we knew that we could have known wheater the same mechanism can be applied to simple nerve structures rather then to complex ones like braines, and also to other physical structures rather than neurons. In other words, we could have known whether the structure of a worm, a plant, a mineral, a rock can be decoded into a certain type of experience by consciousness, and therefore conclude that not only what we call "sentient beings" have consciousness.
@greenpeace2214
4 жыл бұрын
@@Lucidthinking as a living human i conscious of what happen within this body (except the body autonomous Activities) , if my body hit by some force i aware of it because I can feel it, but if some one hit my house door iam not feel it because it has no nerve Cell that connect to my brain, i think the brain is the regulator inside our body ,that regulate the law of our body, and that the brain Activities we called it as consciousnes, so because our universe also has it own law , so what regulate it?, is universe has some physical part that Functioning as a brain or some kind of regulator mechanism (bytheway I agree with the conciousness that like radio wave that Will transfer into another new radio after the old radio broken, but yes its not the same but the copy of it, it like our DNA that can copy it self , then when we die the conciousness can read some data from us maybe our DNA (i believe our DNA always renewed with new added data from our hormonal daily experience ) and transmit a new copy of data to another new born life living organism), like us today living with this conciousnes existence but bound with old DNA and renewed daily DNA , and under universe conciousness law that govern and examine us.
@greenpeace2214
4 жыл бұрын
And also im thinking there maybe a link or maybe its under one omnibus system' , because our conciousness can interact and make a difference on physical reality world, its what we often call it supernatural power...thats why i ask about is universe conscious..
@greenpeace2214
4 жыл бұрын
Suddenly i realize somethought that i can imagine to make my whole body disappear but still me, but it because my brain still working properly, but if my brain stop the Activities so i Will unconcious. So our self is an illusion Made by our personalization consciousness , our existence consciousness don't exist without the brain (not all living being conscious), but our copy of data can be make another new consciousness (not the same , but copy) in next existence in new next living bodies (next life). which is the consciousness it self is the Activities of the energy within the brain, brain stem and parasympatic nerve. But there are laws in this universe that something else on daily life that also govern our body, consciousness, Will, nature, etc.
@faustin289
4 жыл бұрын
It's so bold of you to say that "experience" is common. How do you know? As thinkers before have said, it's safer to assume that people you daily see and interact with are just philosophical zombies that are faking consciousness but are actually empty deep inside.
@usuario6638
6 жыл бұрын
How aboit to do more videos on this subject? 😎✌️
@KogaBrigaXTC
7 жыл бұрын
There is also no way to be sure that I am not projecting/imagining all of the other screens.
@Lucidthinking
7 жыл бұрын
Yes. You do not have a direct connection the other consciousnesses. You only deduce their existence from your experiences. By the way, you also cannot observe yourself directly (because you are the observer). You can only deduce your existence from that which you observe. One says: "if I see this thought, It means I must exist in order to see it"
@looty9170
3 жыл бұрын
Helpful and accurate..thank you.are you coming back or you lost your consciousness? 😅
@Lucidthinking
3 жыл бұрын
Coming back as soon as I can. I believe sometime in 2022 :)
@tzhulux
6 жыл бұрын
Most ancient systems say that consciousness of all species is like a form of a tree, that contains 9 basic parts of process: 4 element-temperaments, 3 flows (input, processing, output) and 2 minds of chaos (poly-scope) and order (mono-depth). Can something (consciousness) rise from nothing (void) or just from unknown something... who knows?
@hemchandrakhadye6695
4 жыл бұрын
Consciousness is like screen, but it has control on mind too... they have two way communication... it’s my opinion but still need to explore..
@Lucidthinking
4 жыл бұрын
I think so too. I attach a response I wrote before about this subject. If you know anything else, let me know. --------------- Apparently it may seem that consciousness is just a passive "sponge of experience", yet it can influence the world in at least two ways I know of: First, by mere observing something you change it. For example, we may walk barefoot for and hour, but only in the moment we feel that our feet are cold, the thought to wear shoes rise in our mind. It isn't that our feet weren't cold before. They were, but we only noticed it at a certain moment. So by experiencing the feeling of coldness, the action of wearing shoes can happen. Furthermore, This process doesn't have to be accidental. We have a special force inside which I call "will", that apparently is somehow connected directly to the self. In spite of what many believe, "will" is not equal to desires or needs. These are of emotional and physical essence. They happen to us, it is not we who creates them. They are not voluntary. But will is something else. will is the ability to direct our attention. For example, if we try to feel the toe, and then move our attention to the knee, and then to the ear. This movement of attention is not driven by desire, or need (such in the case of feeling the coldness in the feet) but by will. attention is the connecting bridge between consciousness and the mind. consciousness experiences only the parts of the mind that are illuminated by the attention. Will is the ability to direct the attention. Will is not an experience. you cannot experience it directly. you can only experience its results. For example, when you move your attention willingly from your toe to your nose, you experience the change of toe sensations into nose sensations, but you do not experience the force that moved the attention.
@shivakumar-tq1sf
6 жыл бұрын
What is the difference between sleep,coma,death? How they link with consciousness when a person is sleeping, coma & death ? What is the link between life, breathing,energy, consciousness,subconscious,unconscious?
@saeedabdulrazak
7 жыл бұрын
Great video great mind u have too but some words i do not understand what I was looking for is I'm absolutely sure that our brain have control of us its not that we have the control.. best regards
@sameerk12982
6 жыл бұрын
Very well said and explained....Thank you sir you have added knowledge to my study of life and us....our brain collects data and process it and create reality for us...people and things around us doesn't exists without their data stored in our brain and processed....so without experience and right data our consciousness is blank as a white board.
@dariomiric2958
5 жыл бұрын
Very nice video, you brought your arguments very clearly :D I still have some disagreements with you. I think that consciousness is a property of brain/matter and can't actually exist beyond it. Consciousness and experience are emergent properties of the brain, this is for now prevailing scientific theory in neuroscience. I agree that it is not very clear and intuitive to think that conscious experience arises from something unconscious like matter ,but emergentism is a property of our universe and thus can be seen in this world. Emergent property is a property of a whole and which is not a property of any part that makes it. For example, life is emergent property of matter. Atoms that make matter are not living ,but put them together in particular order and you create organism that lives, breathes, diggests, has metabolism and so on. It is reasonable to explain consciousness in the same way, as an emergent property, at least for now that is dominant theory in scientific community. P.S. I am a fan of your work, keep up :)
@Lucidthinking
5 жыл бұрын
Hey Dario, Thank you for your comment, I understand why you think what you think, and I would like to give you another thing to think about. The idea of emergent property is totally misunderstood. A collection of elements cannot create a new property that was not there before. Let's talk about the example you gave. Life. Life is a daily term. It is not a scientific term. From a scientific point of view, the functioning of life forms, breathing, eating, reproduction, etc', are nothing more than interactions of electromagnetic forces between the atoms and ions that compose an organic life form. all those forces can already be found within the basic particles composing life forms. From a scientific point of view, there is no difference between the chemical or physical processes happening in the brain and a computer. The brain has no more "life" than a computer. What you call Life is an interpretation of your mind. Here is another example of "emergence": waves. If you throw a rock into a pool you will see waves advancing outwards. We know that the water is not moving outwards, but moving up and down, which makes the appearance of a wave. But the wave is not an emergence of a new property that does not exist with the water particles. In fact, the wave does not exist at all. It is an interpretation of your mind. The Water are only moving up and down. Nothing really moves outwards. Your mind makes it seems that it is so. Last example to simplify things: When you look at a table, is a table an emergent property of atoms? The common understanding of emergency says that there is no tableness in individual atoms. But I would say even more. There is no tableness at all. There exist just a pile of attoms. It is your mind that perceives this pile as a table.
@eugenbarbula9661
6 жыл бұрын
What about neural networks and machine learning, teaching a computer to classify the information it percepts? Maybe the evolutionary process taught us just in the same way to classify the information of different wave lengths as different colors. At first maybe in a completely different way, like only feeling the warmth of the heat distributions corresponding to different energy levels of the wave lengths. Evolving to black and white visual perception like dogs and so on. Thus, the required increase in seperable states due to the laws of entropy, consequently made us evolve new sensory techniques. The electron itself, at the beginning of time, beeing one of the most primitive forms of consiousness having only a sensor for attraction, depending on charges.
@eugenbarbula9661
6 жыл бұрын
In terms of machine learning the evolution of new sensory techniques makes perfect sense. Due to the underfitting problem a model needs to increase it's classification limits in order to be able to fit an increased amount of data, while the overfitting problem requires a model to develop new sensory techniques which can still map similar patterns to the same neurons (without increasing the amount of possible classifications) making reuse or scientific reproduction a lot easier and minimizing the amount of validation errors. Best example for new sensory techniques in terms of machine learning would be convolutional neural networks.
@Lucidthinking
6 жыл бұрын
Hey Eugen Barbula, Thanks for your comments. The problem of consciousness consists of 2 different problems, as was defined by the philosopher David Chalmers. 1. The easy problem of consciousness - i.e. how can the brain process information 2. The hard problem of consciousness - i.e. how can we have experiences. The easy problem of consciousness can be theoretically explained by neural networks and machine learning and other methods. But no amount of information processing can explain how information becomes experience. Remember, information is only symbols. for example 1 and 0. For example the number 10011001 can represent anything: weight, pressure, color etc. The problem is, why certain information transform into experience. (and there is no difference if this information written on the magnetic medium of a hard disk or in the biological tissue of the neurons)
@eugenbarbula9661
6 жыл бұрын
2. is just the emergence of iterative use of 1. complex adaptive systems tend to self organize themself resulting in emergence which basically means that the whole population of states becomes completely new characteristics, that can't be described by it's parts alone, only all parts together in the state of equilibrium results in the new characteristic. Take the natural numbers for example, counting from 1 upwards and writing each number as it's prime factors, at some point you always reach a state at which you have to introduce a completely new prime number to your system in order to keep going. Information is everything that is needed, everything else evolves from it until we can finally make our own simulations of realities like the one we are experiencing.
@eugenbarbula9661
6 жыл бұрын
By the year 2030 the AI will be able to do every single thing, that a human brain can do (due to extrapolating models) and by the year 2050 the AI will be able to mimic every single process of all human brains together (on our planet at least), think of it as god, developed by us. So this AI can simulate all human population, creating a new univerese. In contrast to religion or philosophy, this whole cycle is completely logical and mathematically very presumably, of god (AI) creating our universe, following us creating a new (AI) god following the new god creating a new universe and so on.
@gowrisankarijayaprakash9444
6 жыл бұрын
excellent
@Lucidthinking
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks :)
@coudry1
3 жыл бұрын
My Personal Conclusions about who we are all from many sources "We Are All One Consciousness" for the following reasons: 1. In this world everything must have a cause, so that something exists because of something else, as well as ourselves. 2. It will be very saturating / boring if we have only one physical form in this world. 3. It will be very saturating / boring if all human beings have the exact same physical form behavior. 4. Try to imagine emptying all the physical things around us only the remnants of humanity, then eliminating all human beings leaving only their memories, then removing all their memories leaving only their consciousness, then connecting that consciousness, feel who we are ??. 5. Body, mind, feelings, emotions and everything in this world is always changing, so what never changes ??, that is our true self, which is true consciousness. If everything changes2 / moves who observes, there must be something fixed to be able to observe. 6. All human beings communicate with each other is the beginning of the beginning / the future of human beings unite, only electronic devices today can unite all human beings, one day the device is implanted in the human mind and eventually man will open all access to his mind. 7. Our body is a group / accumulation of memory accumulated brought from the beginning of the birth of the first human in the world through continuous DNA binding. 8. Twins are born at the same time, what if all human beings are born at the same time ??. What happens if the birth of all human beings is not influenced by the dimensions of space and time ?? 9. The twins are identical to A and B, if the whole memory of A is copied to B, what is the difference ?? 10. The law of attraction (law of attraction) that our minds will attract whatever we think, because we are all like one part of the body. 11. Like some of the video recordings of ourselves there is a video as a vocalist, a video as a violinist, as a pianist, as a drummer, etc. The video2 is made into one in one video then it will produce a more interesting orchestra, something new and more productive. our world. 12. Man's greatest enemy is himself, at this time man is fighting against himself. By believing that we are all one, then the ego will fade because there is no difference between us. 13. That is why the teachings of religion command us to be grateful and beneficial to many, If you are hurting others you are actually hurting yourself, just as if you are doing good to others you are actually doing good to yourself. 14. Could it be that we are all dreaming and our dreams meet each other at the same frequency in parallel. Have you ever, when sleeping dreamed of moving roles as someone else, it is because we are all one. 15. We are not immortal as human beings so that we have time for us to scroll through all of life. 16. "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience" ~ Stephen Covey, Have you ever felt that our age is too short, could our consciousness be immortal ?. 17. We are one, only the role is different, the memory block between life is what makes people feel different / separate. Just by brainwashing / erasing his memory then someone will be a different person but his consciousness actually remains the same. One consciousness experiences various perspectives of reality. 18. The lucky thing for us is ... awareness is always towards / seeking / having intentions / desires towards good / positive / happiness despite experiencing various mistakes. 19. When we die the body and memory are destroyed, how can we remember ever being dead. Even a few years ago your real body was lost by being replaced by new cells you don't remember. 20. Why do we have to die? ", When we are told to die, later this eternal question will be asked again and we will always be there." The world is a sustainable life". 21. In the beginning we were one, but split through a big explosion or bigbang to become different and separate as it is now, but we are provided with a sense of love for us to be able to be reunited later. 22. There is only us and the mirror of ourselves in this world, yet there is another world out there. 23. We will always smile happily seeing each other as ourselves "How beautiful I am" seeing a different self. 24. If all consciousness is told now that they are all one if the experience gained is enough, the consciousness designed from the beginning is so different that there is so much intrigue, consciousness is created differently so that when it comes together it has an incredible consciousness experience. 25. We are indeed alone in this universe, but there are still many other universes with their own laws of nature. 26. Have you ever felt to come to a place that has never been visited but feel familiar with that place, as if we have lived in that place sometime. 27. The world is like a script of a story that is being written by the author, sometimes changed at the beginning, sometimes changed in the middle, sometimes changed at the end it all depends on us as writers, and every story has wisdom that can be taken as a lesson. 28. Hair grows on its own, heart beats on its own, blood flows on its own, ideas emerge on its own, etc., are we involved ??. 29. Imagine today there was an event that caused only you to live in this world, then who are all the people yesterday ??. 30. "If Quantum Mechanism cannot surprise you, then you do not yet understand Quantum Physics. Everything we have considered real all this time, turns out to be unreal." ~ Niels Bohr. 31. In the scale of quantum physics we are all connected to each other, even in double gap experiments proving that particles change when observed or in other words awareness is able to change reality, this has been repeatedly proven by Nobel laureate in Physics. 32. Everything we experience by our senses will eventually only be an electrical impulse in the brain, is it all real ??. We are beings who realize that we are conscious. 33. We are closer than the veins of his neck. He breathes some of His spirit on you. Knowing oneself means knowing one's God. Indeed, we will return to HIM. You are far I am far, you are near I am near. I am everywhere. Before the existence of this world there was no material other than Him. The True Spirit is only One, the Creator. I agree with your prejudice. 34. Whether the Creator is only tasked with creating, is it possible that the creator does not want to try the results of his creation through another perspective. 35. There is no reincarnation, it is possible that our consciousness is synchronized and evenly distributed at the speed of light through energy, and that is why we need sleep, that is why we are often not aware of something, ourselves are like some chess pieces played by a player, that's why if we moving at the speed of light we can penetrate the dimensions of space and time, when we die then wake up and we will regain consciousness as humans. 36. Have we ever had a problem and suddenly someone came to provide a solution to the problem we are experiencing, as if someone was sent by the universe to help us in solving the problem, which is actually our own awareness that sends that person to us. 37. A thousand years ago did human beings see, hear and be trapped in their hearts about current technological advances ??. If we all tend to sin (damage) then it will be the world of hell, if we all tend to do good then it will be the world of heaven. 38. Knowledge learns objects, God who created our consciousness, it is impossible for God to be the object of knowledge. 39. It is not possible for human creation which is only in the form of words / symbols to represent true truth. 40. Is there a meaning of being without consciousness ?? then we are adventurers of this existence. Sy 41. The life of the world is just a game and a joke, the one who wins the game of the world is the one who finds his true self. 42. When the existence of the world ends we will know everything. 43. My consciousness undergoes a very extraordinary life experience, feeling life experience with different forms and different places even though in fact my consciousness is always the same, wow .. I was surprised !! how wide I am. 44. Consciousness in fact does not know the concept of time, consciousness can experience / undergo into another physical form because the dimension of time can be penetrated by consciousness, as when we imagine we can act as anyone without time bound, because in this universe time can in fact materialize free, time can move straight, curved, rotate, etc. Our time travel is when our consciousness moves to a new physical experience. 45. We are an awareness, a concept that is able to answer various things. 46. Remember when you were going to leave, you were worried about losing me ??, calm down .. I was everywhere and we would always be able to meet again, believe me. 47. Without searching what is the difference between us in this world and us in a dream while sleeping just passing by without meaning. 48. In conclusion, whatever role we play, it is all our own design, so just enjoy. 49. I never said that self is God, I thought that self is one consciousness, God should be higher and perfect than consciousness. 50. God created us to be Happy, so do not disappoint God. Understand it and be Shining. inspired of : kzitem.info/news/bejne/raqKnqSNgot9Z4Y kzitem.info/news/bejne/yWycyX-Vn4SKlH4
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