Consciousness

Consciousness and philosophy of mind: qualia, valence, the hard problem, phenomenology, theories of mind

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Trusted voices in Consciousness

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  1. nosilverv — trusted by 202 posters here
  2. algekalipso — trusted by 200 posters here
  3. visakanv — trusted by 182 posters here
  4. the_wilderless — trusted by 164 posters here
  5. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 175 posters here
  6. eshear — trusted by 179 posters here
  7. AskYatharth — trusted by 138 posters here
  8. TylerAlterman — trusted by 154 posters here
  9. RichDecibels — trusted by 141 posters here
  10. repligate — trusted by 118 posters here
  11. vividvoid — trusted by 144 posters here
  12. Malcolm_Ocean — trusted by 138 posters here

Top posts in Consciousness

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  1. somatically aware computer usage, phenomenon #1: when i have copied something and haven't pasted it yet, i can sense that in my body (bashu_thanks) — 51 likes
  2. In the beginning there was sensation Humans developed the ability to freeze sensations, then used these frozen pieces to construct a grammar for thought (vasocomputation) This led to words, magical… (johnsonmxe) — 48 likes
  3. The reason to avoid lying is that the brain is not type safe. Lying to others and lying to yourself are the same motion. (RomeoStevens76) — 44 likes
  4. Bro, FINALLY figured out why these stories of "there being something more outside" are so intuitively plausible (Plato's Cave, The Matrix, Simulation Theory). IS IT ANY WONDER???… (nosilverv) — 36 likes
  5. We talk a lot about the general grey fog of modernity that saps aliveness and all that, but The sniper-precise anti-eros lasers are fucking impressive too So many funnels for finding *exactly* what… (the_wilderless) — 36 likes
  6. 4yo: Is this real life or a dream? me: Real life 4yo: Why? me: Because you’re awake 4yo: But… in my dream I dream that I’m awake me: There’s an asymmetry: believing you’re awake while dreaming isn’t… (mbateman) — 36 likes
  7. https://t.co/MocL6HCmYS (the_wilderless) — 35 likes
  8. > be me > formless observer > in charge of making sure the formless void, is in fact, formless > occasionally have to check > one day, find out the void has taken form > formless void is now 10,000… (vividvoid) — 35 likes
  9. You know when you're into someone and you start interacting with the image you have of them instead of interacting with them? E.g. thinking they're perfect or that getting with them will solve all… (UntilTrees) — 33 likes
  10. some people, upon seeing this, may experience a flash of insight that reconfigures their entire model of human expression and behavior https://t.co/SSwpygNcos (visakanv) — 33 likes
  11. If a dolphin wants to explain there’s a school of fish nearby, it will send the sound of a sonar return from a phantom school of fish — literally the *sensation* of fish. I suspect this is a good… (johnsonmxe) — 33 likes
  12. The jump between the second panel and the third holds the entire secret. The correct question is asked (why am I not?), and then artfully avoided by an associative switch to self judgement. There is… (eshear) — 33 likes
  13. if you're going to advocate for unguarded open-hearted intimate contact with the present moment please let me know you also understand the survival value of living with guards up, dissociated,… (RichDecibels) — 33 likes
  14. turns out it’s possible to read emotions of someone in a high amount of detail (including associated imagery) and what they’re aware ofand what their physical intentions are (like where they’re… (metaLulie) — 32 likes
  15. "You seem like someone with high openness to experience" https://t.co/iEswHyWzzv (PrinceVogel) — 31 likes
  16. i'm going to say some things that may come across proud or attainment-seeking but please take it in the spirit of "brent's journaling as part of a process" my experience and understanding of… (_brentbaum) — 31 likes
  17. Are you attracted to them or is your awareness just contracting around them (nosilverv) — 31 likes
  18. in retrospect it's pretty fucked up that you can just say to people "hey you know that hole at the center of your being" and they'll just be like "oh yeah the hole, i know exactly what you mean,… (QiaochuYuan) — 30 likes
  19. It only takes a few moments of introspection to become aware of the vast, yawning emptiness that abides at the center of your heart. Every adult feels it. Most of us experience it as the pain of… (vividvoid) — 30 likes
  20. Biggest mistake ppl make in trying to find their authentic self is thinking it has any particular shape. “I am an artist” “I am a warrior” no sir, those are just identities – the authentic self is… (TylerAlterman) — 28 likes
  21. God: Agapic lovePagan gods: distributed archetypesSoul: UnconsciousConsciousness: self-attentionChakras: embodied emotionsSpirits: semi-autonomous thought processesDemons: distributed processes that… (exgenesis) — 27 likes
  22. there’s an entire universe of experiences like this that people have been having for millennia, that a kind of “i fucking love science” devotion to scientific materialism dismisses out of hand… (QiaochuYuan) — 27 likes
  23. A non-neurotoxic version of MDMA that you could take every day like coffee would represent, not only a watershed moment for *human wellbeing*, but also, perhaps less intuitively, it would entail a… (algekalipso) — 27 likes
  24. spoiler alert: the feeling of cringe does not originate in you, it arises in the tribal body. cringe is the tribal policeman threatening punishment if you don't realign your behaviour with the… (RichDecibels) — 27 likes
  25. The dynamic I think tpot clued in on is that the modal egregore is actually pretty hostile to human flourishing and benefits when the mind-body connection is broken https://t.co/qkKCEH6QYd (johnsonmxe) — 27 likes
  26. I have a talking point that I want to bang on about more in different ways that is "you can only respond to what you notice" not being able to notice something (if it lies outside your awareness)… (m_ashcroft) — 26 likes
  27. beginning to see a loop that was always there but wasn't noticeable until someone pointed it out. do you want this experience for yourself? you can get it by continuing to read this tweet, but you… (strangestloop) — 26 likes
  28. i know “addiction” is the mainstream, andrew huberman, overton window frame for our relationship with our phones, but it so impoverished humans have a need for trance. phones offer that. humans have… (AskYatharth) — 26 likes
  29. one thing I honestly do not understand is why there is not more serious scientific inquiry about “what happens after we die” except for this one UVa prof with a database of 2.5k cases of kids who… (relic_radiation) — 26 likes
  30. yet another reminder that we are so early; we are still collectively at very rudimentary levels of consciousness. and we know there are people who have been like, Olympic athletes at this. when it… (visakanv) — 26 likes
  31. so can babies. it's only (some? most?) adult humans who have, through a combination of suppression, dissociation, and sheer lack of practice, learned how to trick themselves into pretending they… (QiaochuYuan) — 26 likes
  32. they don't tell you when you sign up for the internet that you're learning to notice, harmonize with, and participate constructively in a self-organizing, emergent collective consciousness at the… (tasshinfogleman) — 25 likes
  33. I'm basically at the point where I don't believe there are any biochemical functions of the body that are not, in principle, controllable by conscious intention and awareness (chercher_ai) — 25 likes
  34. congratulations, you've placed two layers of indirection between yourself and an experience you're having ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ this is supposed to help how? the real question is what being a failure feels like… (QiaochuYuan) — 25 likes
  35. interesting subtext in the LLM discourse that is something like "it's embarrassing to get too precise about how intelligent LLMs are b/c it automatically forces us to get more precise about how… (QiaochuYuan) — 25 likes
  36. 6/ It’s forced me to conclude that either there’s some spooky social interaction medium we don’t understand (“energy”)OR ppl are *much* more sensitive to barely perceptible fluctuations in others’… (TylerAlterman) — 24 likes
  37. - brain desires new good - ask brain if this is desire for positional good or functional good - brain doesn't understand, pull out illustrated diagram explaining relative income effect & hedonic… (demiurgently) — 24 likes
  38. Friend hacked me into expanded awareness yesterday at a restaurant being: "Oh you're going to the toilets? there's something surprising, I'm not telling you, you'll get it"And I never formed so many… (Tangrenin) — 24 likes
  39. maybe loneliness feels so devastating because cognition is distributed (metaLulie) — 23 likes
  40. > i just woke up one day and decided to have a good memory and looked at things with utter confidence that i'll remember them We have no systematic idea how much power just deciding holds.… (nosilverv) — 23 likes
  41. hello weird woo people feels like im going insane. basically every moment i don’t try to keep my head together, the world feels excruciatingly good, like i want to yell at the top of my lungs normal… (AskYatharth) — 23 likes
  42. Hello everyone! I'm Andrés, from the Qualia Research Institute. You may recognize me from The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences Harvard talk (2019) and The Topological Solution to the Boundary… (algekalipso) — 23 likes
  43. I've been scratching my head for a week after someone asked 'what became obvious for you after taking psychedelics?' I dunno man it seems self evident that the more primitive pre linguistic… (RichDecibels) — 23 likes
  44. is this what the wheel of samsara is https://t.co/G83FOqYvMc (nosilverv) — 22 likes
  45. the interesting part of this to me is when he says “hard to be positive when that’s reality”, when the reality right in front of him only *just* got morphed by his reality distortion field. It’s not… (visakanv) — 22 likes
  46. if you do not feel comfortable with everything in your awareness, your awareness will narrow till you are (AskYatharth) — 22 likes
  47. "I contain multitudes" is a beautiful line of American poetry that helps you learn to be honest with yourself. If you have talent for this and become honest enough, you may discover that 90% of your… (vividvoid) — 22 likes
  48. yesterday evening something snapped in my brain and i had an honest-to-god mdma trip while completely sober i was even sweating like a pig. half expected my pupils to be dilated (they weren't)… (mechanical_monk) — 22 likes
  49. i keep learning what i thought was expanded awareness was, like, a starter pack? this has happened at least 3 distinct times. i suspect i'm not done. i like this game (_brentbaum) — 22 likes
  50. I am not 100% sure that feelings and thoughts are different things (RichDecibels) — 22 likes

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