Please post links to multimedia files (videos, podcasts, etc.) here.
Someone has made audio book of the 14 lessons
(14 lessons in yogi philosophy .pdf) by far the best book that I have ever read on the nature of consciousness , & the easiest to follow explanation.
"The Second Lesson" - The Instinctive Mind—The Intellect.
all lessons
(2019-09-14, 08:28 AM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]The Society for Scientific Exploration has a new playlist entitled "Explaining Consciousness":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omwGwetD...jKdLvgHo0I
I didn't watch them yet, but skimmed through the list of titles of the items in the
playlist. (I've picked, on an arbitrary basis, a couple of items from the list, which I do intend to watch.)
I'm always picky about words. I just wondered whether it was actually possible to
explain consciousness (I've never come across any explanation in the past). I'd think it likely these are these are "about" rather than "explanation". The word "about" to me is appropriate, it is a bit like a satellite in its orbit, it moves about some focus, but it is distinct and separate, with rare exceptions, it doesn't touch that focus at all.
Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - here's a recent lecture by Brian Josephson with the title "Towards a new scientific paradigm":
https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3101489
Abstract: The video consists of a lecture given to Trinity College Science Society on Nov. 14th. 2019. It argues that physics wrongly presumes that factors that are important in the biological context are irrelevant to physics. In the biological context, sign systems emerge naturally out of mechanisms discussed in the lecture, resulting in the formation of highly specific connections between systems, as when two people converse, or cooperate in other ways. Taking such possibilities into account leads to a picture of reality where the quantum description is no longer fundamental, but instead the outcome of processes at a deeper level.
Sign systems form the basis of mental processes, from which it follows that what is known informally as mind is equally a naturally occurring phenomenon, though one largely invisible to the processes of physics. This opens up the possibility that processes such as the origin of life on Earth and biological evolution may be influenced by processes at this level.
Taking such possibilities further requires the development of more detailed theories that can be compared with experiment. Coordination dynamics with its complex of synergies offers one such possibility, while on the other hand experiments concerned with the influence of sound on water (cymatics) show that even in the case of non-biological systems signs can have very specific effects on systems that they interact with.
Here's another podcast in the Waking Cosmos series from Adrian Nelson. It's an interview with a cosmologist named Brian Swimme, entitled "Cosmology and the Evolution of Consciousness":
Donald Hoffman - BATGAP interview
By pure chance I found another Donald Hoffman vid.