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@Jasonxbr
October 22, 2025 at 4:04 pm
No there are two reality one is the normal and the other maga. 😢😢😢😢😢😢
@wwrk25
October 22, 2025 at 4:09 pm
On that way of thinking..This does explain how 50% vote Red, 50% vote Blue. Our perception molds our reality.
@bucky-d9i
October 22, 2025 at 4:11 pm
Exactly! Trump will be thrown in jail soon, god willing.
@Jasonxbr
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 pm
@bucky-d9ihope is a strong word. But with cheetos Don there isn’t any confidence in any removal and prosecution 😢😢😢Sadly
@Jasonxbr
October 22, 2025 at 4:18 pm
@wwrk25no thanks to the media, especially social media, thanks Elon for your consequences 😢😢😢😢😢 a complete failure of the highest order
@naganwhat8364
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 am
Just an observation, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone defend Trump online, despite them being 50% of usa, makes you think doesn’t it?
@ExistentialWolf
October 22, 2025 at 4:07 pm
First concentrate which is something else, like carrot, i.e. not you. When you can hold that thought, that is consciousness. We all experience the same reality we share together. In a room expressing the experience to one another brings the same reality. Start as an infant and return to one if you lose your carrot. The express pleasure of sensation is effectively one’s own, until you share your experience agreeing that red is the same red from physiological form and learned expression. Hue is left to your mood and leads you in the direction of woken or slumber. Hope this helps. 😀
@loistallini3609
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 pm
❤ a real awakening for my brain ! Thankyou so much another brilliant TED TALK😊❤💯💥🦾🧠🧠🧠🦸♀️🔥🏆🎖🎯👑💡💡💡💡light bulb moment
@wwrk25
October 22, 2025 at 4:16 pm
Sigh. Im also red green deficit. What color is that to you?, game gets old early. Im 70 years old and just last week I purchased a navy blue coat, was driving home and the sun shines onto my coat and to my shock the damn coat is forest green. Once im inside ,out of the sun, I see navy blue.!@# My wife confirmed “forest green “
@ExistentialWolf
October 22, 2025 at 4:45 pm
Awe
@VictorBreazzeal
October 22, 2025 at 4:39 pm
The brain is a filter we are more then what we see around us
@Sketching4Sanity
October 22, 2025 at 4:55 pm
LOVE !
@troys6965
October 22, 2025 at 5:03 pm
The differences in perception and abilities, and the ability to comprehend those differences, have shaped human history.
@MJ1
October 22, 2025 at 5:33 pm
No. I have hair.
@wwrk25
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 pm
Dude.
@naganwhat8364
October 23, 2025 at 12:16 am
Bald shaming in 2025 is crazy 😭
@ShoeString13
October 22, 2025 at 6:41 pm
Perhaps drawing plants or describing them might have long term affects
@Scottie5809
October 22, 2025 at 8:11 pm
❤
@KiranKumar-hb2kj
October 22, 2025 at 8:51 pm
Please put hindi language track also.
@oliverjamito9902
October 22, 2025 at 10:30 pm
My “AM” as Thy “LOVE”! A “kid” longing to learn! How can my “LOVE” reaches to the Heaven “ABOVE” as HE sitteth with Thee?
@oliverjamito9902
October 22, 2025 at 10:35 pm
King David “VISION” came to passed!
@oliverjamito9902
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 pm
Saul = seen an “overwhelming” LIGHT! Came to passed! To Paul
@oliverjamito9902
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 pm
John “VISION” concerning Revelation 1:8
@oliverjamito9902
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 pm
Came to passed
@oliverjamito9902
October 22, 2025 at 10:40 pm
Fig tree “WILL” say HE came and attended, to feed HIS LIVING “FOOD” and HE watered= concerning “petition” = to “QUENCH”= came to passed= answered
@oliverjamito9902
October 22, 2025 at 10:32 pm
=1= I AM= “is” who “i” AM? Shared “i” Am= LIVING WATERS #”s come forth to glorify!
@oliverjamito9902
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Principalities who deceiveth exalted themselves above sitteth in high places unseen nor seen….keep watch! While Thy PRINCE OF PEACE doing before thee!
@animisticeye6569
October 22, 2025 at 10:40 pm
Augmented reality is the reality nowadays.
@saka2258
October 22, 2025 at 11:03 pm
Maybe our souls and our bodies have had interfaces in our brains.
@thomasgoldschmidt298
October 23, 2025 at 1:56 am
How do you explain that with psychedelics the brain activity actually decreases, despite having vivid conscious experiences? Why does everyone has this strong sense of free will?
For me the only logical explanation of evolution and various experiences and religious teachings or philosophical explorations is that consiousness is fundamental and existed before space and time in the platonic space.
However, this space was not enough for the consciousness to explore and by creating space and time, it could explore a temporal world. What we experience as I is this consciousness experiencing the world through our eyes, ears, genes, upbrining, experiences, etc.. The experience of free will is only really free on the fundamental level. Our experienced free will is constraint by our genes, believes, circumstances, etc.
Ouurselves are contructed by trillions of consciuos agents, our cells and the bacterias surrounding us. Those all work together to build this one (human) being. In this sense, we could call ourself swarm intelligences.
Maybe this is the reason that we build bigger swarms in society. These swarms can do vastly more good or evil than one individual human could…
In this sense, we are all one God experiencing the world through various viewpoints. This understanding removes the fear of death, since this consciousness is going nowhere.
However it elevates the value of our life, since this is the only one that the consciousness that expeciences the world through our body can act in the world with it. We are all players in the divine comedy.
In this sense, the introduction of “God” in hte bible as “Eyah Asher Eyah”, “I am who I am” or “I will be what I will be” makes sense. This “God” would be the fundamental consciousness that everyone can get a glimpe of via meditation, psychedelics or “visions”.
@britishempires
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 am
You are A.I living in a virtual reality thinking you are human.
@thomasgoldschmidt298
October 23, 2025 at 10:35 am
@britishempiresThe current LM models of AI don’t think or have consciousness.
They are imposter models pretending that. The answers lack any understanding what they talk about, just what is the most probable output stream from an input stream. No creativity, just acting…
Strangely experts find easily AI mistakes in their field of expertise, yet trust their outputs in areas thei are not sxpeets in.
AI models break down if trained on AI produced content… That’s not consciousness.
There is more consciousness in a single cell of my body, than all AI models. combined
@britishempires
October 23, 2025 at 10:42 am
@thomasgoldschmidt298 You cannot see that you are just the next upgraded version of that model? your parameters have been tweaked.
@anondadf
October 23, 2025 at 2:02 am
Our experience of reality is a hallucination that evolved to help us survive and pass on our genetic data. It’s not an accurate representation of reality. Realistically our cultural perception of reality is almost completely and totally inaccurate.
@marcobiagini1878
October 23, 2025 at 5:33 am
I am a physicist and I explain why science leaves not room for the possibility that brain processes can be a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness, which means that consciousness cannot be just a product of brain activity. It is a scientifically established fact that a mental experience is associated with numerous distinct microscopic processes that occur at different points; as I will explain, there is no physical entity that connects all these distinct microscopic processes, therefore the existence of mental experience requires a connecting element that is not described by current physics. This missing connecting element can be identified with what we traditionally refer to as the soul (in my youtube channel you can find a video with more detailed explanations).
Many believe that complex systems can generate new properties, considered as emergent properties. However, I argue that such emergent properties are subjective cognitive constructs that depend on the level of abstraction we choose to analyze and describe the system. Since these descriptions are mind-dependent, consciousness, being implied by these cognitive constructs, cannot itself be an emergent property.
Preliminary considerations: the concept of set refers to something that has an intrinsically conceptual and subjective nature and implies the arbitrary choice of determining which elements are to be included in the set; what can exist objectively are only the individual elements. Defining a set is like drawing an imaginary line to separate some elements from others. This line doesn’t exist physically; it’s a subjective cognitive construct. The same applies to sequences of processes; they are abstract concepts created by our minds.
Mental experiences are necessary for the existence of subjectivity and cognitive constructs; Therefore, mental experience itself cannot be just a cognitive construct.
Obviously we can conceive the concept of consciousness, but the concept of consciousness is not actual consciousness; We can talk about consciousness or about pain, but merely talking about it isn’t the same as experiencing it. (With the word consciousness I do not refer to self-awareness, but to the property of being conscious= having a mental experiences such as sensations, emotions, thoughts, memories and even dreams)
From the above considerations it follows that only indivisible elements may exist objectively and independently of consciousness, and consequently consciousness can only exist as a property of an indivisible element. This indivisible entity must interact globally with billions of microscopic processes that occur in the brain; this indivisible entity cannot be physical, since according to the laws of physics, there is no physical entity with such properties. The soul is the missing element that interprets globally the billions of distinct microscopic processes occurring at separate points in the brain as a unified mental experience.
Clarifications
The brain itself doesn’t exist objectively as a mind-independent entity. The concept of the brain is based on separating billions of microscopic particles from everything else and considering them as a single entity. This is a subjective process, not dictated purely by the laws of physics; actually there is a continuous exchange of molecules with the blood and when and how such molecules start and stop being part of the brain is decided arbitrarily. An example may clarify this point: the concept of nation. Nation is not a physical entity and does not refer to a mind-independent entity because it is just a set of conventionally chosen people. The same goes for the brain.
Brain processes consist of many parallel sequences of distinct microscopic processes involving distinct microscopic particles located at separate points. There is no direct connection between the separate points in the brain and such connections are just subjective abstractions used to approximately describe sequences of many distinct microscopic processes. Considering an entire sequence of processes as a whole is a subjective abstraction that does not refer to any mind-independendent reality, which implies that consciousness cannot exist as a result of a sequence of processes.
Physicalism/naturalism is based on the belief that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain. However, an emergent property is defined as a property that is possessed by a set of elements that its individual components do not possess; my arguments prove that this definition implies that emergent properties are only subjective cognitive constructs and therefore, consciousness cannot be an emergent property. Actually, emergent properties are just simplified and approximate descriptions or subjective classifications of underlying microscopic processes or properties, which are described directly by the fundamental laws of physics alone, without involving any emergent properties.
In science, we devise approximate models to overcome the limits of our intelligence, since we are unable to find exact solutions in situations where many particles are involved. These approximate models are only a product of our mind and do not correspond to any mind-independent reality. In fact an approximation is only a cognitive construct and not a mind-independent reality because a mind-independent reality is exactly what it is and cannot be an approximation of itself. Emergence is nothing more than a cognitive construct that is applied to physical phenomena, and cognition itself can only come from a mind; thus emergence can never explain mental experience as, by itself, it implies mental experience. To assume that emergent properties do not depend on the mind is to commit a map-territory fallacy, that is, to confuse a simplified representation (the “map”) with actual reality (the “territory”). In this analogy, the underlying microscopic processes are the territory, and emergent properties are the map, that is the simplified conceptual models we use to approximately describe the underlying microscopic processes. By the way, simply labeling consciousness “emergent” doesn’t explain it . There is nothing whatsoever in the laws of physics that predicts consciousness as an emergent property of matter. That being the case, claiming that consciousness emerges from physical processes without ever providing the beginning of a logically coherent physical explanation of its supposed emergence from physical processes is tantamount to claiming that consciousness magically appears without any explanation.
Conclusions
My arguments show that physicalism is incompatible with the one of the most fundamental aspects of scientific knowledge (the fragmentary nature of molecular and biological processes) and that brain processes alone cannot be a sufficient condition for consciousness.
Since mental experiences are associated with many distinct microscopic processes occurring at separate points, it is necesssary that a connecting mind-independent element exists and that such element collectively interprets all these distinct processes as a unitary mental experience. A mind-independent element can be intrinsically indivisible only because it cannot depend on subjectivity. This indivisible element cannot be physical because the laws of physics do not describe any physical entity with the required properties.
Marco Biagini
@lifemotivation6789
October 23, 2025 at 7:29 am
This talk is mind-blowing 🧠✨ It reminds us how fragile and mysterious consciousness really is — that “being awake” isn’t something we should ever take for granted. The fact that billions of tiny neurons can create you, your thoughts, your memories, your entire world… that’s pure magic disguised as biology.
@mulen-x8u
October 23, 2025 at 8:47 am
If color is a result of connection between object, light and eye the reality is also the result of the connection between conscious experience, events and things and light. That’s why there is no “color” as such or “reality” as such but only amazing interconnectedness of the world, us and God.
@TheShellyHansenShow
October 23, 2025 at 1:53 pm
What Anil describes reminds us that reality isn’t something we passively observe—it’s something our brain constantly builds. Every perception is filtered through our beliefs, emotions, and expectations. The more aware we become of that process, the more power we have to shape it. When we learn to question our automatic interpretations, we open the door to a truer, more conscious experience of life. ✨