Consciousness threads are always shit which makes them perfect for a shit board.
Been contemplating the idea of free will for weeks
James Moore
Lincoln Rivera
Well, I'm guessing I have about a high school knowledge of science, but I find the concepts of science that reach the limit of our understanding to be pretty interesting, and I have always followed current science articles that appear here and there, because science seems to be the one thing next to art which I find to be mentally stimulating. I like it when science opens up new ways of understanding the universe that change your perspective.
Jace Thompson
Consciousness threads are great. Without them I would have never read Dennett's work which successfully convinced me of dualism.
Caleb Anderson
Ok, I would read these books in this order:
E = MC^2 - David Bodanis
A Brief History of Space and Time - Stephen Hawking
In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat - John Gribbin
Elegant Universe – Brian Greene
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2014) – Max Tegmark
This will give you a layman friendly grounding in physics and cool shit about the universe.
Here are some lectures to augment the books:
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Alexander Williams
i use this as an excuse for being retarded
Landon Kelly
Consciousness =/= free will
I am pretty conscious right know, but my actions are driven by physical chemical laws and the consciousness part can't do anything but percept
Lucas Bennett
Oh sweet, thanks. I'll order these books and start a playlist of those videos. I watch a lot of lectures and documentaries and general videos about whatever all the time, so it shouldn't be that big of a deal. I usually find that sort of thing to be calming, just listening to someone more educated than I talking about interesting stuff.
Jaxson Baker
Cool.
The first lecture has some basic math in it, which you should be fine with, but don't worry if you have to press pause occasionally to wrap your head around it.
I'd also recommend reading the books a couple of times over, however you want to go about doing that.
Good luck user!
Joshua Martin
Mmm, I actually believe that once we can replicate consciousness with a computer we will be much closer to understanding consciousness, but I don't think that there's really a consensus about consciousness, I've , heard Daniel Dennett say in a video that there's no consensus on it, and I sort of already figured that before. I think that we can pretty much surmise from just deductive reasoning that consciousness is a byproduct of physiology, there's literally no other logical explanation besides that. And when you think about the laws of physics and how basically something determines the actions of everything, it's easy to see that there is really no control of our own involved in it, it's just the playing out of laws of physics and matter. Now, to explain what consciousness is in a concrete and scientific way, I think will also give us an incredibly deep understanding of philosophy, because a lot of philosophy deals with perception of the universe and plays into consciousness, as far as I'm aware. So, basically consciousness is the most interesting fucking question I can imagine in all of science, and I hope to the endless void that there's going to be a breakthrough in artificial intelligence in the coming decade, I think if there's one thing that I want to see in my lifetime, it would be self aware, self conscious, self learning, common sense able artificial intelligence, which far surpasses the intelligence of human beings. The end of religion may be a little outside of my lifetime, sadly.
Tyler Peterson
How do you do it, Veeky Forums?
How do you deal with the crushing depression?
The eternal loneliness that hits like a bullet and never goes away?
Drinking, drugs, none of them help. None of them help. None of them can stop me from thinking of remembering everything. Nothing stops me from knowing that everything is going nowhere or knowing that no matter what happens, no matter how many people I have around me, I'm always going to be alone.
How can I make these feelings stop?