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Iain McGilchrist - The Matter With Things Part 1 12,535

• um matter consciousness but also to some people's surprise
• they've intuited the nature of their mind of their consciousness and seen that there is one part that is very wise
• i'm afraid many discussions about consciousness these days collapse into

Art, God and Beauty -a conversation with Iain McGilchrist 11,699

• cosmos and i deal with things like time and space and matter and consciousness but some people may be surprised that i

Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversation 8,623

• you got interests in psychic phenomena and the nature of consciousness yes um although he's a professor with tenure

The dawn of consciousness | Iain McGilchrist, Donald Hoffman, Eva Jablonka, Michelle Montague 8,268

• conclude uh our theme too and that is this does consciousness evolve in gradients in smooth increments or does
• gradients in smooth increments or does consciousness evolve in discrete steps something akin
• um there is an evolution of consciousness so given that is it in discrete aspects or is consciousness a
• consciousness so given that is it in discrete aspects or is consciousness a continuous function well most of the
• everything comes out of an encounter between our consciousness and the conscious universe around us don what's
• your approach to the uh based on your approach to consciousness being fundamental uh does that mean that it's
• quantum well i i take consciousness to be ontologically fundamental and i'm not a
• and the appearance of space and time are merely qualia within consciousness and the brain and the head
• the brain and the head are merely qualia within consciousness so consciousness is not trapped inside
• are merely qualia within consciousness so consciousness is not trapped inside the head it creates the head as one of
• its simple symbols and the evolution of consciousness on its own terms i suspect that the projection of it into the
• mathematics may be fine for that but that qual that consciousness on its own terms outside of space and time we may
• math in space and time but consciousness on its own terms as fundamental we may need
• in quantum steps is is is irrelevant because consciousness is there it's fundamental so the question makes no
• mutations alone can engender the required questions of consciousness so we're gonna go on to theme three
• uh will we ever provide an explanation for consciousness i think i can almost answer the question from each of you but
• you to weigh the roles of science and philosophy in explaining consciousness i know your position but what way each one
• understand life will understand consciousness others of course the rest of the panel uh that science is in
• don't think that we can explain consciousness in the sense of the origin of consciousness it's like asking it's
• consciousness in the sense of the origin of consciousness it's like asking it's sort of like asking you know why does
• make progress studying consciousness but not necessarily by looking to science but
• have it and by studying and paying very careful attention to how consciousness appears to us we might make some
• to defend this view do you need consciousness to be any way non-physical so i'm asking you to take your the
• wonderfully in your books and and ask whether your sense that consciousness is a an ontological primitive as as a
• i'm not saying by reading the humanities you solve the problem of consciousness i don't think we can come to that at all
• knowing what love actually is and the same is true of consciousness it's a subjective phenomenon and as such it's
• that consciousness was entirely physical that eva with our arguments has convinced you
• as as contributes to human understanding from your sense of what consciousness is so uh the thought experiment
• hypothetically eva has convinced you that consciousness is 100 physical like life is physical would that affect your
• that it enormously enriches one's consciousness without it when one is aware of an experience is
• materialist physicalist framework but if you start with consciousness as your ontological primitive isn't your
• with with a theory in which consciousness is fundamental uh you have to have a specific dynamics that you
• theoretical conditions on on the claim that consciousness is fundamental if you cannot predict scattering amplitudes at
• that i see it is that we that consciousness occurs
• only if we implement it within our brains i always conclude consciousness uh discussions the the same way while

A revolution in attention: perceptual awakening in Iain McGilchrist’s work by Dr Mark Vernon 7,280

• um ian's world into the zone where this consciousness is awakened um and hopefully then that will help
• tolkien and c.s lewis and was very interested in consciousness too how awareness changes over time
• um implications of this wider consciousness that ends inviting us to recall and rediscover and remake
• so that's to begin almost like with an invocation of this consciousness we're sort of launched i hope now hope you can
• even sort of feel the shift of consciousness and awareness that ian's work invites us to consider as a
• because he argued that cultural consciousness cultural awareness does swing and move and shift over time he he
• swing and move and shift over time he he talked about evolution of consciousness in relation to this but he he thought
• perhaps not sort of the growth of our consciousness but certainly more cyclically different awarenesses of
• this alienation that older forms of consciousness particularly say indigenous consciousness now has its own
• consciousness particularly say indigenous consciousness now has its own genius its own insight its own
• said to me the other day um love what the machine consciousness that so shapes our world doesn't love or

Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist 6,216

• quite a lot to say about that in a long chapter on consciousness and matter which um in which i effectively suggest
• actually completely irrational to suppose that consciousness can somehow simply emanate from matter unless you
• i take the view that matter and consciousness are not wholly distinct and that they are in fact manifestations
• water has phases they don't look like one another but i think consciousness has phases that don't look like one
• importantly resistant element in consciousness because i believe for reasons that are probably too long to go

The Sense of the Sacred | Iain McGilchrist with Jnanavaca 5,652

• paradox and then the third is that consciousness and matter are not simply
• leaving us with the problem of how to get consciousness out of matter yes but in reality aspects of one another
• in reality aspects of one another in which consciousness is nonetheless primary yeah
• and what i think about in terms of matter and consciousness is there's a long chapter in there which is really
• matter emits consciousness it might be better said that it
• it might be better said that it transmits consciousness but even better bringing in the idea of resistance is
• bringing in the idea of resistance is that it permits consciousness in other words it's it's its job is to form
• it's that resistance that brings the individual consciousness into being and william james another person who please
• it's something i know in my consciousness i mean i may or may not
• i may or may not have consciousness because there's matter we don't know that but certainly
• i can only know matter because i've got consciousness matter is something i experience
• experience and it's experienced in consciousness so we can't deny consciousness we're
• and it's experienced in consciousness so we can't deny consciousness we're denying the whole thing
• is a sort of different phase of consciousness in which it has different
• matters is not a look at all light consciousness to which i say well ice is not at all like water and water vapor is
• you wouldn't be so easily able to say matter is nothing like consciousness it's not at all by consciousness
• matter is nothing like consciousness it's not at all by consciousness we forget don't we that matter itself is
• matter is completely false yeah it's just an aspect about consciousness yes yes yes that's right yeah
• being and it also helps it persist for longer because consciousness can move as fast as you like and you can think of

Dr Iain McGilchrist discusses The Matter with Things 5,504

• and as difficult to understand as is consciousness itself and one of the mistakes that's made
• by some scientists is to think that if they can only explain consciousness in terms of matter they will have helped us
• materialists who think that all fault or consciousness is limited to the inside of your skull it's
• pieces i i'm interested in consciousness but i'm interested in how the structure of
• i'm interested in how the structure of consciousness can be articulated and some people would claim it reflects
• networks each of which is capable of supporting consciousness on its own and seems to have different ways of
• haven't talked about this but i view the brain as not um emitting consciousness or indeed even transmitting
• or indeed even transmitting consciousness but permitting consciousness in other words it has a
• consciousness but permitting consciousness in other words it has a sort of resistant valve-like
• sort of resistant valve-like relationship to consciousness which exists in any case but the brain filters

Consciousness, Purpose, and Values - Dr. Iain McGilchrist 5,305

• session today um the event theme is a day on consciousness i'm here with the first speaker dr e mcgilcust
• who are we what is the world how can we understand consciousness is the cosmos without purpose or value and
• in a previous talk i think two hours i looked at consciousness so i won't i'll take that as read for today
• that in an earlier talk i explained why i believe consciousness is first irreducible
• there are chapters on space time matter consciousness but also on values and on purpose which
• and they're not things within consciousness abstract things of course but
• and they're also not sort of piggybacking on human consciousness and so we've got consciousness so then we
• piggybacking on human consciousness and so we've got consciousness so then we get values as part of the deal value
• the matter of things but i suggest it's not for consciousness as you will know from my earlier more
• as you will know from my earlier more extensive lecture on consciousness i believe that consciousness permeates the
• extensive lecture on consciousness i believe that consciousness permeates the universe well one answer could be that
• of the cosmic consciousness or the conscious cosmos
• inner take on our consciousness and the rest of the consciousness that it encounters
• take on our consciousness and the rest of the consciousness that it encounters in what we call experience
• it characterizes the proper relationship between consciousness and the world it is therefore not a function of some
• just as it fails to make sense of consciousness its answer in every case is the same
• that you'll believe anything you might even end up believing that consciousness is an illusion
• that could contain stars it doesn't get anywhere in their life or consciousness if you hold that that
• and to cut a long story short i believe it is a phase of consciousness using the word phase not in its temporal sense but
• resistance-giving phase of consciousness but also i believe that there is not no value

Iain McGilchrist: Why Daniel Dennett is wrong about consciousness 5,286

• if matter is and it's a big if if matter really has no consciousness in it then you can't make the step from that to
• you can't make the step from that to consciousness many philosophers have tried nobody has succeeded well
• it is a purely material phenomenon and that essentially consciousness arises out of very complex chemical
• assume that there is some other thing we call consciousness coming in from the outside either being
• but i think his position is wholly incoherent he says that consciousness is an illusion but i would point out that
• for it to be an illusion there must be a consciousness to be eluded and