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Consciousness Is an Emergent Phenomenon
For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks -- yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?
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Emergence can be a conscious phenomenon.
#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-03-04 05:17 AM | Reply
"I think, therefore I am"
- Rene Descartes
#2 | Posted by shane at 2026-03-04 09:59 AM | Reply
"I yam what I yam"
- Popeye
#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-04 11:47 AM | Reply
www.google.com
#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-04 11:49 AM | Reply
www.instagram.com
just a thought
#5 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-04 11:54 AM | Reply
Excerpt from "Thinking Allowed" with host Jeffery Mishlove talking with his guest Dr. Amit Goswami Professor of Physics from the University of Oregon, who claims that consciousness is primary
youtu.be
#6 | Posted by shane at 2026-03-04 02:30 PM | Reply
How To Get Amazing Deep Sleep |
www.youtube.com
The Eyes Trick
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-56rXGTWukI
yt shorts Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman
#7 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-04 03:35 PM | Reply
#8 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-04 03:35 PM | Reply
btw... the first link above says 'sleep', but it's also for diet and weight loss; a couple of years ago I lost 50 lbs in about 7 mos to get under 200 (I'm 6'3") just by drinking coffee and eating dark choc until 2 oclock, the eating whatever over the next 4 hours... and I'm still under 200.
And the link in 8 is a quick eye exercise that werks for 75 percent of people... your brain uses a lot of neurons every day to position and balance the body... which isn't helpful when you are trying to go to sleep.
The eye trick tells those neurons to shut down.
#9 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-04 04:04 PM | Reply
Okay Dokey then.
Now.
Define "consciousness" and where it exists.
#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-05 04:54 PM | Reply
ai.hubermanlab.com
no simple answers apparently
#11 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-05 05:28 PM | Reply
ok... #11 is way too long
Here's a short, intelligent discussion about the mind-body conundrum of consciousness that takes us to quantum field theory where there might be an answer... by a couple of MIT guys.
#12 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-05 06:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Apparently getting the problem over to QM is fundamental step to understanding:
"During his long career, he has collaborated with Stephen Hawking to uncover the secrets of the big bang, developed a quantum theory of consciousness with anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff and won the Nobel prize in physics for his prediction of regions where the gravitational field would be so intense that space-time itself would break down, the so-called singularity at the heart of a black hole."
#13 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-05 06:46 PM | Reply
... why does the mind feel like a single, unified system? ...
There is the mind, and there is the body the mind resides in.
To equate the two is not a correct assessment, imo.
Stephen Hawkings' body was paralyzed, but did that stop his mind from moving forward?
My view is that the body is the container that we are given to contain the consciousness we are also given.
So, then, that seems to beg the question... what happens to that consciousness when the body dies?
No one really seems to know.
#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-05 07:53 PM | Reply
Why you don't really exist | Sam Harris, Roger Penrose, Sophie Scott
The Institute of Art and Ideas
#15 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-05 10:06 PM | Reply
"Donald Hoffman: Nothing Exists Until It is Perceived
Cognitive neuroscientist Donald Hoffman shares a mind-bending insight: reality as we know it may just be a data structure inside consciousness " not the other way around.
This radically different perspective could transform how we understand ourselves, the universe, and the very nature of existence."
1 min yt short
full interview
#16 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-05 10:13 PM | Reply
OpEd: Is the Whole Universe Just a Simulation? (February 2026) research.gatech.edu
... How do you know anything is real? Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see. Other things can't be seen, but you believe in them because a parent or a teacher told you, or you read it in a book. As a physicist, I use sensitive scientific instruments and complicated math to try to figure out what's real and what's not. But none of these sources of information is entirely reliable: Scientific measurements can be wrong, my calculations can have errors, even your eyes can deceive you, like the dress that broke the internet because nobody could agree on what colors it was. Because every source of information " even your teachers " can trick you some of the time, some people have always wondered whether we can ever trust any information. If you can't trust anything, are you sure you're awake? Thousands of years ago, Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly and realized that he might actually be a butterfly dreaming he was a human. Plato wondered whether all we see could just be shadows of true objects. Maybe the world we live in our whole lives inside isn't the real one, maybe it's more like a big video game, or the movie "The Matrix." ...
As a physicist, I use sensitive scientific instruments and complicated math to try to figure out what's real and what's not. But none of these sources of information is entirely reliable: Scientific measurements can be wrong, my calculations can have errors, even your eyes can deceive you, like the dress that broke the internet because nobody could agree on what colors it was.
Because every source of information " even your teachers " can trick you some of the time, some people have always wondered whether we can ever trust any information.
If you can't trust anything, are you sure you're awake?
Thousands of years ago, Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly and realized that he might actually be a butterfly dreaming he was a human.
Plato wondered whether all we see could just be shadows of true objects.
Maybe the world we live in our whole lives inside isn't the real one, maybe it's more like a big video game, or the movie "The Matrix." ...
#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-05 10:33 PM | Reply
Physics: the universe as a hologram
www.scientificamerican.com
#18 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-05 10:45 PM | Reply
@#18
Yeah, there is so much we do not know and we cannot explain.
And, don't even get me started on the concept of a multi-verse ...
#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-05 11:06 PM | Reply
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