Experiments in Consciousness

Join Nobel Laureate Francis Crick as he explains new ideas and experiments in the fascinating field of human consciousness. Series: "Frontiers of Knowledge" [5/1999] [Science] [Show ID: 4262]

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[1simonmatthews]

I do believe there are degrees of consciousness. Eg. Humans are very conscious, dogs are less conscious, spiders less still. This goes on down to the first life forms. Consciousness then can be seen as the degree by which one is aware of their environment. The first life forms may have only been conscious of a single thing, eg. some may have been sensitive to a certain frequency of light, others to something else. These evolved and came together to make us. Consciousness was there all along.

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[pink1thegreat]

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[RoyManter]

@AnduinX with only that information i can say that the moon is the size of the sun but we can only see the moon we all know, cause it INTERACT only with photons and such, but the oder part dont interact and therefore exist. With those condition it doesnt exist.

I know that isnt the whole theory, but with those argument one can assume anything

[RoyManter]

@AnduinX i totally agree

[RoyManter]

@AnduinX yes, i have the same information

[AnduinX]

@RoyMenter: This model already exists, and is summed up well by Cyril Burt: “The brain is not an organ that generates consciousness, but rather an instrument evolved to limit the processes of consciousness and of conscious attention so as to restrict them to those aspects of the material environment which at any moment are crucial for the terrestrial success of the individual”

[AnduinX]

@RoyMenter: The materialist model survives by classifying most of what it conflicts with as ‘mysteries to be solved before the model is proven correct’, and outright dismisses the anecdotal. This is a failure, I think. A better model of consciousness would be one that works with everything that we know, and conflicts with nothing.

[AnduinX]

@RoyMenter: How does the fact that some brainless single-cell organisms, can learn, avoid predators, find mates, find food, and have sex fit in with the materialist model? Not to mention there’s a great deal of compelling anecdotal evidence out there, such as veridical perception during NDEs – even in the blind.

[AnduinX]

@RoyManter: I think that the materialist model of consciousness conflicts with too much of what we can observe. In cases of severe hydrocephalus as well as the more impressive cases of terminal lucidity, there are people who have a sliver of a fraction of the brain mass of a normal person, and yet display seemingly no cognitive deficits. Additionally, to this day neuroscience has found no neural correlate for consciousness.