Steven Novella, M.D. at The Amaz!ng Meeting 6

Steven Novella, M.D. (now a Senior Fellow with the JREF) talks about neuroscience and the nature of consciousness at The Amaz!ng Meeting 6.

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• neuroscience
• consciousness
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• amazing meeting
• science
• skepticism

[newcoyote]

Dr. Novella is at the very top of my favorite skeptics list. Effortlessly articulate and a joy to listen to. He has played a major roll in my own critical thinking skills ove the last few years.Thanks for all the work Steve.

[kurtilein3]

@germinvermin

Then id like to point out that the annual "The Amazing Meeting" is growing from year to year. With an attendence in the 4-digit numbers and many international guests its one of the biggest conferences of its kind on the planet.

[Arfalarf]

@Whisper6911

You said:

"nonphysical reality does no run on 'mechanics'

have you never had a dream?"

I reply:

Are you serious? Are you really using DREAMS as an example to prove the existence of nonphysical reality? You do realize that dreams aren't real, right?

[sleepcity]

@Whisper6911 Okay, I fail. And "see the reflection" but "never the real thing." Wonderfully clear statements, and thanks for the really productive, informative conversation. Now, for the third time...please just go away. Nobody is interested in interacting with you. You see this, right? Nobody cares what you're saying. Go away.

[Whisper6911]

@sleepcity

and that is why you fail, and will only ever see the reflection, and never the real thing.

[Whisper6911]

@Arfalarf because you cant think of any, doesn't mean there arn't any.

i only means you are rather shortsighted.

nonphysical reality does no run on 'mechanics'

have you never had a dream?

[sleepcity]

@Whisper6911 Hammers? Quarks? Religion? What the hell are you still babbling about? Nobody is interested.

[tweaker1bms]

@Whisper6911 Au contrare I think there's much accepting of ignorance here, it's just that we don't allow our ignorance to give us an excuse to believe something else, that we don't know, simply means we don't know, not that we get to say this or that.

On holograms, to be fair, I think the big difference was in how the two presented the theory, Einstein likely had some well written paper with math and the works, Chopra just says he heard it somewhere, therefore woo-woo can be true.

[Whisper6911]

@sleepcity see this is the problem: if you cant bang on it with a hammer it must be bullshit, because god damn we are terrified of what cannot be quantified.

now explain to me how quarks work mutherfucker.

all of you need to seriously GET OVER YOURSELF.

and grow up.

"your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, i, see trough you."

-Bill Hicks.

pretending something doesn't exist because you personally cannot see it is no less childish then religion.

[sleepcity]

@Whisper6911 Please. Stop. Babbling. - the rest of us

[Arfalarf]

@Whisper6911

Actually, if we were satisfied with spiritualist explanations throughout history, THEN we would still believe lightning strikes to be an act of god.

The history of science has been a history of the triumph of materialist answers over spiritualist nonanswers.

[XmorbaneX]

This is awesome. My wife and I had an argument this weekend over whether or not we'd use a Star Trek like teleporter if one existed. My wife ultimately didn't like this idea, because she felt part of what makes us, us isn't contained in the meat in our skull. I on the other hand now feel vindicated in my position that I would, because of exactly what Steve is saying. The brain is the mind / consciousness. Thanks Steve!