"Is Consciousness Produced by the Brain?" by Bruce Greyson

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1. woah
2. How science being produced by conscious beings can claim that consciousness is unnecessary to explain phenomena examined by science? ! Pure madness!
3. There is heaps of people who seem to have no brain, and yet they are conscious, or at least aware. Of something.
4. How then does this other consciousness generator create thoughts? We have no evidence of such a thinker. We have no idea how it would think, We have no idea how it would transmit to the body. Without evidence, why assume such complication? Further, why does the brain go through all the work of computation via the brain's neural net? Why do animals bother having brains? This is like assuming a god and assigning thousands of arbitrary properties without evidence. You might want to keep the option open, but it is silly to assume it is true without any hard evidence.
   
   I have had out of body experiences. This is not evidence of consciousness without a brain. It is evidence my brain can do projections of what the universe would look like from 10 meters in the air. My brain was still functioning.
5. Unconsciousness in produced by the brain. Squirt some anaesthetic into its blood supply and consciousness disappears. You wake later as if no time had passed. You can even watch yourself fading away.
6. It would appear the more intelligent we think we become, the more of a mystery we discover the mind mind/brain relationship remains. It is a shame that western medicine is based on monetary profits. I would be willing to wager that there is a trove of information the government has which has been derived from its own classified methods of 'study' which the layperson will never have the chance to examine.
7. What was the name of the female student without a brain?
8. Show me an example of consciousness where there is no brain at all, then I'll believe that consciousness is not produced by the brain. Near dead people still have a brain. As far as we know no brain = no consciousness. Those very rare people who have minimal brain tissue and yet still exhibit "normal" consciousness still have brain tissue, they have a brain. There is much evidence suggesting that consciousness is entirely contingent on the presence of a brain and no evidence that there can be any consciousness with no brain whatsoever. Until and unless we find convincing evidence of consciousness without a brain our best theory is that yes, consciousness is produced by the brain. None of the examples that Greyson cites constitute such evidence.
9. Does our brain CAUSE or PRODUCE the consciousness that we experience? A very intriguing and provoking question! :)
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11. The main problem I have with this line of argument (essentially redefining a human brain as an organ able to "tune in" to extracorporeal consciousness) is that it doesn't explain how it is that no two people tune in to the same signals; no one experiences awareness through two or more separate bodies. Perhaps more importantly, the model would need to have the brain be not only a receptor but also a transmitter since our consciousness evolves and reacts according to external stimuli from its own sensors (ie., your five senses)
12. On Schrodinger's cat- an imaginary life and mind, but a real cat
    
    The cat illustrates the link between quantum (subjective, imaginary axis) and particle (objective, real axis) physics
    
    The link is Schoedinger's equation (eqn (1) below). The i axis is the quantum or mental axis. Without this, there is no life. The real axis is that of the quantum's corresponding particle, the real body and brain of the cat.
    
    Eqn (1) below is the link between quantum (mental) mechanics and real world physics (real axis). It also represents a Leibniz monad.
    
    Leibniz's monad is the simplest possible entity, a substance without parts. In other words, a quantum. It is not the same as the term "monad" commonly used in mathematics. But although it is without parts, it is one aspect of a philosophical monistic dualism, the other aspect being a particle.
    
    The basic assumption in this exploratory essay is that quanta are mental entities existing in imaginary space and time and
    particles are real entities in real space and time. This is so if we accept Leibniz's universe as a dual-aspect monism.
    Each real particle, if we use Leibniz's concept of the monad,has a corresponding quantum, orthogonal to the place and time
    because imaginary not real) of the real component, but in itself not belonging to spacetime.
    
    Consider Schrodinger's equation with Mind as a scalar quantum wave (the left hand side of the equation) , which is the equation for Leibniz's monad :
    
    - i * d(psi(r,t))/dt = H*psi(r,t) (1)
    
    Here we have a particle acting in an electric field where dpsi(r,t)/dt acts as the differential slope of the mathematical
    psi wave, and the Hamiltonian H is a real function containing a space-time gradient of psi and a potential energy.
    
    What this says is that properties of the quantum are defined by the nature of real scalar psi (r,t).
    
    Considera timeless holographic quantum pool table where the there is perhaps an additional
    equation something like
    
    - i (1-prob (r,t)) (2)
    
    where the imaginary component disappears if prob(r,t) = 1 and r,t is the position of a hole deterministically located
    (at fractal positions) to ensure a pre-established harmony. When the quantum drops through a hole it is no long purely
    mental but part of the brain. Due to feedback from the brain, the equation for the particle quntum, like Schroedinger's cat,
    will contain mixed real and imaginary components. And so on.
    
    
    -Ever since Hume, science has imprisoned us in the dark cave of materialism and empiricism and needs to restore us to the
    quantum sunlight of plato (plotinus) -- see my website https://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough
13. Excellent
14. "If we find consciousness outside the brain, then consciousness is not created in the brain"
    = hoomboog!!! Or should I be saying "false dichotomy"? Yet nobody calls Bullshit.
15. I love this...and it anything we do in our evolution practices etc should have this awareness! I have only listened to 20 minutes but wow
16. Thank you a very informative and scientific discussion on the nature of consciousness. I think there is overwhelming evidence that shows the continuation of mind to exist after the decay of the physical brain and western science should take it seriously. There's so much we don't know and we should embrace that
17. There is no reason to default to the idea that consciousness is reducible to the brain in the first place, and by extension there is no reason to assume that consciousness ceases when the brain dies.
18. Read YouTube comments and you'll see consciousness does indeed function with a complete lack of brain.
19. Great vids! Keep it up!!
20. "Is Consciousness Produced by the Brain?"
    
    Yes it is! Don't fall for the woo crap of Bruce Greyson