Consciousness breaks from the physical world by keeping the past alive <p><em>Conscious experiences of change, from seeing a bird take flight to listening to a melody, cannot be broken down into ever smaller units of experience. They must inhabit what William James calle...

Conscious experiences of change cannot be broken down into ever smaller units of experience. | https://bit.ly/4s5WKnV

Philosopher Lyu Zhou argues that this exposes a deep rift between mind and matter.

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Reality is not what it seems | Bernardo Kastrup The idea that reality is fundamentally thought, consciousness, or an idea, as opposed to physical matter, atoms, or particles, is becoming more main stream. The many problems with scientific materiali...

“The world is constituted of transpersonal, non-perceptual experiential states that cannot be characterised in terms of physical quantities,” writes Bernardo Kastrup. | https://bit.ly/4oK6xxo

Kastrup argues against the idea that reality is fundamentally thought or consciousness.

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We don't understand matter any better than mind | John Collins

We think there's a mind-body problem because we can't give an explanation of the mind. But this is a mistake. | iai.tv/articles/we-dont-underst...

John Collins argues that the mind-body problem isn't what we think it is.

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Seeing the consciousness forest for the trees | Àlex Gómez-Marín Robert Lawrence Kuhn has written perhaps the most comprehensive article on the landscape of theories of consciousness in recent memory. In this review of Kuhn’s landscape, Àlex Gómez-Marín highlights ...

In this review of the consciousness landscape, Àlex Gómez-Marín celebrates Robert Kuhn’s rejection of the monopoly of materialism. | https://bit.ly/3IBoW0l

He explores the radical implications of new accounts of consciousness for meaning, AI, and human immortality.

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Metaphysics vs consciousness Consciousness has been a long-standing enigma for both science and philosophy. What is consciousness, is it real or illusory? And how does it relate to the universe? In this conversation, philosophers...

Consciousness has been a long-standing enigma for both science and philosophy. What is consciousness, is it real or illusory? | https://iai.tv/video/metaphysics-vs-consciousness

Philosophers Philip Goff and Hilary Lawson discuss Goff's version of panpsychism.

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Consciousness, AI, and the pattern of reality, with Joscha Bach Join cognitive scientist and AI researcher Joscha Bach for an in-depth interview on the nature of consciousness, in which he argues that the brain is hardware, consciousness its software and that, in ...

Is it possible to understand the algorithms of consciousness? | https://bit.ly/3KAYpk5

Join cognitive scientist and AI researcher, Joscha Bach, for an in-depth interview on the nature of consciousness.

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Consciousness is not fundamental | James Cooke

Many claim that consciousness itself is fundamental; fundamental not only to our experience of reality, but fundamental to reality itself. | https://bit.ly/3W7d0Xd

But James Cooke argues this mistakes the foundations of knowledge with the foundations of the world.

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David Nutt: entropy explains consciousness

“Though the changes in complexity may be small, we have seen that similarly small changes in other neuroimaging measures have a massive effect on subjective experience,” argues David Nutt. | https://bit.ly/424mS7y

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Mind, matter, and everything There is a widespread belief that we are getting closer to describing how the mind works. In a 2020 survey of English-speaking philosophers, more than half thought materialism described the human mind...

Can consciousness be solved by science? | https://bit.ly/4gsPPzN

Join as Sean Carroll, Ellen Langer, and Tamar Gendler discuss if consciousness can ever be explained materialistically, or if materialism can be extended to account for thought and experience.

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No current theory of consciousness is scientific | Erik Holer A letter by distinguished scientists sought to discredit a leading theory of consciousness as pseudoscience. That was mistake. No theory of consciousness is currently empirically testable, so strictly...

A letter by distinguished scientists sought to discredit a leading theory of consciousness as pseudoscience. That was mistake. | https://bit.ly/3VekS8S

No theory of consciousness is empirically testable, so strictly speaking, no such theory is scientific, argues Erik Hoel.

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The language of the unconscious

"The unconscious is structured like a language,” argued Lacan. Now, with the rise of AI, Lacan's thinking has taken a twist. | https://iai.tv/video/the-language-of-the-unconscious

Alenka Zupančič, argues that AI shows the unconscious is structured like a large language model.

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When we see, hear, smell and touch we’re not receiving reality, we’re creating it. | https://bit.ly/46GXxTB

These are radical conclusions of neuroscientist, Karl Friston. In this exclusive interview he explains how to unify physics and psychology.

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The miracle of mind Despite the advances in neuroscience and the rapidly extending capacity of computers, we still have no adequate theory of consciousness. No account of how the brain is able to create experience. And n...

Will there ever be consensus on consciousness? | https://iai.tv/video/the-miracle-of-mind-consciousness

Join as Tim Crane, Bernardo Kastrup, and Susan Blackmore debate if the key to consciousness can ever be explained in terms of the physical.

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Uploading minds to computers is technically impossible—the idea rests on a misconception of consciousness. | iai.tv/articles/consciousness-c...

William Egginton explores the relationships between the philosophies of Kant, Heisenberg and Borges.

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Schrödinger and the conscious universe Most assume that matter is fundamental, and that consciousness arises out of the complexity of matter. But Nobel Prize winning quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger does not share that assumption. For…

Most assume that matter is fundamental, and that consciousness arises out of the complexity of matter. But Schrödinger disagreed. | iai.tv/articles/sch...

Robert Prentner and Donald Hoffman explore the idea that the universe contains a single mind.

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Con haul from Everfree Northwest photographed on a white table. Assortment of prints, stickers, buttons, and a balloon.

The combined hauls of my partner and I from #efnw2025 including both pony and nonpony items! We save all year for this convention because it is our favorite 💛

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Is it actually ridiculous to assume that there are fundamental forms of matter?

If not: Why then should it be ridiculous to assume that there are fundamental forms of consciousness?

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Perception as a fantasy Join us as world-leading cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman discusses his cutting-edge research about consciousness and perception, as well as its astonishing implications for the ultimate nature of…

Is perception a fantasy? | iai.tv/video/percep...

Join Donald Hoffman to discuss his cutting-edge research about consciousness and perception, as well as its astonishing implications for the ultimate nature of reality.

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The consciousness puzzle Could all matter in the universe be conscious? Professor of Philosophy Philip Goff argues that panpyschism is real and solves the deep problems of materialism and dualism that have plagued philosophy…

Could all matter in the universe be conscious? | iai.tv/video/the-co...

Join as Professor of Philosophy @philipgoff.bsky.social argues that panpsychism is real and solves the deep problems of materialism and dualism that have plagued philosophy for centuries.

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The brain doesn't create consciousness | Paul Marshall The materialist assumption that consciousness is produced by the brain is on the decline. New theories, such as panpsychism, the idea that consciousness exists throughout the physical universe, are…

Consciousness is generated by the brain, isn’t it? | iai.tv/articles/the...

Echoing Henri Bergson and Aldous Huxley, philosopher Paul Marshall suggests the idea that the brain acts as a ‘reducing valve’ for consciousness.

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The unconscious mind The idea of the unconscious was first coined by the German philosopher Schelling in the early 19th century and introduced to a British audience by Coleridge. And it was Freud who put the unconscious…

Is the unconscious a core part of human nature, or a dangerous myth that hinders treatment? | iai.tv/video/the-un...

Join Josh Cohen, Barbara Tversky, and Edward Harcourt as they debate whether Freud’s idea was a delusion.

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Your body thinks as much as your mind | Barbara Tversky

We often think of the mind as housed in the brain, with the body as its vehicle; but Stanford psychologist Barbara Tversky disagrees. | iai.tv/articles/you...

In this exclusive IAI interview, Tversky argues thinking is not just something the mind does; it’s something the body is.

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Is your brain really necessary for consciousness?

Humans boast big brains, but neuroscientists Gazzaniga and Queenan explore lives lived with surprisingly little brain matter. | iai.tv/articles/is-...

Challenging the “more is better” bias, they suggest consciousness is less about structures, and more about harmony.

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The chemical roots of consciousness | Addy Pross Most scientists think that Darwinian Evolution explains the emergence of life and conscious minds. This is false, argues Addy Pross, since Darwin’s theory cannot explain how a system capable of…

“The physical basis for life’s mental dimension may be finally coming into view.” | iai.tv/articles/con...

Addy Pross argues that an understanding of life does, in fact, lie at the level of chemistry.

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The real me Many identify themselves with their inner voice - the silent voice in our heads we can use to think, plan and ponder. But from Lacan to Nietzsche many have warned this inner voice is not ourselves,…

How can we truly understand our inner voices? | iai.tv/video/the-re...

Join Steve Taylor, Jack Symes, Anneli Jefferson, and Frank Tallis as they debate if the inner voice can serve as a tool of our conscience, guiding our inner lives.

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Consciousness is a window onto reality itself | James Cooke

We think that we experience reality, sometimes catching insight into the ultimate nature of the world. | iai.tv/articles/con...

James Cooke argues that mystical experiences found from psychedelics can reveal how consciousness and reality exists in one and the same world.

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