How do you explain consciousness? | David Chalmers

Why you all here are so triggered?

He is lacking so much knowledge, there is no question remained unanswered, but you have to dig in lectures.... conciousness is an emergent property, a self referrential feedback loop.

Start with zombies, add randomness, some evolution, and I can see consciousness coming into existence. Think about it.

Consciousness is an abstract concept inferred from sensory experience.

Consciousness is fundamental, without it everything is completely meaningless. Like the number 7 exists abstractly if the universe existed or not so consciousness is abstract and immaterial. Consciousness exists apart from the material world and we are merely experiencing a material world. But the elephant in the room is that consciousness is divine, therefore God exists.

in nondualist traditions in eastern philosophy, consciousness is the only reality and which is obstructed by ignorance making the world of names and forms emerge. but this world of names and forms is illusory and removed by right knowledge of reality that is "aham brahman asmi" or "I am that".

I think consciousness is really a combination of a stream of sensory information, with abstraction, and the ability to synthesize abstractions to form ideas (or new abstractions).

We already have AI that can synthesize music, or play a game of GO better than the best human.
If computers can categorize things abstractly, like rules to a game, or what objects look like, and are then able to synthesize that information with other abstractions that they've learned, I would say they are probably conscious.

Nobody knows

Simple: Consciousness does not exist.

"Consciousness is real and different from Psychology and Neuroscience. Let me spend the next twenty minutes saying that over and over again with no explanation why. Alright next, let me say that F=ma is actually an explanation of consciousnesses, because when rocks fall down there is some meaningful sense of consciousness that is the reason this happens. Take this seriously guys, even though I don't think it's true. Aren't you glad I am talking right now."

Facepalm! So philosophical arguments of consciousness are still just a god of gaps explanation based on Aristotelian rhetoric and weak ontological arguments. I am disappointed but not surprised. It would really help if he understood that basics of neuroscience (layered neural networks especially encoders and symbolic representations, etc) and then built his speculative and non-scientific, pseudo-science hypothesis based that.

as consciousness goes, his must be limited because his taste is appalling.

Theosophist you are right. Why don't we burn books we don't agree with. Long live Trump and his enlightened followers.

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Consciousness is everything, it is the very plastic substance that by direction of the Source of all things - will / intent / thought create the fabric of reality / universe. All is in The All and The All is in All.

consciousness is human vanity. Most of us can not accept, that we are mashines, ruled by laws of nature.
We want so be something special. So consciousness is an illusion we want to believe in.

i dont believe consciousness is an illusion. i think its the only things that is not an illusion. Matter, time, space, causality even, can be seen as the illusions. I first asked myself if there is a quantum mechanism in our brain that allows us to have an effect on quantum states. the observer effect or measurement problem is very real, just by looking at a quantum system we collapse the wave function bringing it from a state of all mathematical superpositioned probabilites to the concrete reality we see. I believe the copenhagen interpretation is an accurate theory. Its been proven many times through the double slit, to wheelers delayed choice, and delayed choice quantum eraser experiments. theyve done these experiments every which way including random draws so even the most biased person would have to take the matter seriously. How could one effect something just by looking at it? that is mind boggling and paradigm shifting. I started researching quantum consciousness when I discovered the observer effect, and theres actually quite a bit to it. Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose have a great theory called, "Orch OR". They are definitley onto something great and pretty much established we have bio quantum computers that are doing quantum computations in the microtubules inside the neurons that are linked directly to consciousness through conscious moments, roughly 40-100 instances per second. They even recorded the resonance coming from inside the microtubules. Quantum information is at the base of all reality, it is the foundation of all we know. we cant explain quantum mmechanics, its still a complete mystery, but what we do know of it has made the world we know possible, technology is all based from what we learned through quantum mechanics.

Plato vs Aristotle...This debate is nothing new...We just have more gizmos to play with and explore these views...

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Fundamental limitations on studying consciousness - the lack of a consensus on what the term even means. It is pretty difficult to argue against one persons idea of consciousness when their definition of what it is is unrelated to your conceptualization of the idea. Elsewhere, the speaker has ventured into quantum voodoo, saying that wave function collapse depends on consciousness. Another argument that makes no sense, unless you believe that there is a god type being that has always been observing the universe, or that humanity began with the first observer, and that there was nothing before us, no evolution nor history before the emergence of conscious beings.