Sam Parnia What Is Consciousness? (Closer to Truth)
Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven.
What is it about human brains that enable both the regulation of bodily activities and the generation of mental thoughts? What are the mechanisms of human .
Stories of ‘near death experiences’ (NDEs) are legion, affecting all cultures and peoples. NDEs have similarities—white lights, tunnels, spirit beings, feelings of .
Stories of ‘near death experiences’ (NDEs) are legion, affecting all cultures and peoples. NDEs have similarities—white lights, tunnels, spirit beings, feelings of .
29 Responses to “Sam Parnia What Is Consciousness? (Closer to Truth)”
The comment about the brain being like a TV set is an interesting one, but, I suspect, misguided.
In his book, “The Doors of Perception” Aldous Huxley proposed that the brain was like a reducing valve that reduced the total amount of information that the brain-body had to deal with, and it reduced it in such a way that it filtered out information that was not relevant to the survival of the body, and procreation. That actually makes sense as both the reports from NDEs,, and the descriptions of the Bardo in Tibetan Buddhism agree strongly on one point– that experience is MORE vivid when the ordinary perceptual apparatus are not working. Having heard Dr Parnia, B Alan Wallace and Rupert Sheldrake all discuss NDEs, I am surprised that the Huxley model has not been discussed.
Probably useful to remember that Aristotle also thought the Earth was flat.
This guy is extremely dull, monotone, and boring on a very interesting topic . Shame..
Consciousness , the boundaries of which, or even no-consciousness is the thinnest and biggest distance or difference
between ANYTHING or any two or more things. There is distance between Boston and Dallas, Earth and Moon,
or galaxy to the next, ancient times and now, between two quarks, two persons, nations, two neurons but
between consciousness and “not so” is the biggest difference.
I was sitting on the toilet. Comes a roach, very small-young, days old. I took a swipe at it. Missed… It scrambles…..
That was “somewhat” conscious roach…up to that point and we humans, up to this point….
I think this guy is afraid to admit that he believes in afterlife or strongly believes in the possibility of one, and he’s merely afraid of being ripped for it. So, he just kinda insinuates he’s agnostic. I think he’s more spiritual-agnostic. I just get that vibe from him
Wasn’t there a guy that had a heart transplant and he was having memories from the other guys life? Weird man, there is a lot we don’t know and everything else is just assumptions.
And then there’s this point of view. I like Parnia answer better, but Anil is more convincing for me. https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_how_your_brain_hallucinates_your_conscious_reality
I know this guy. He is the Aware study guy isn’t he? I have found a research blog about him. Anyway I have to say that Dr. Parnia may be on to something here and I wish him the best of luck with his research and hope he discovers something groundbreaking. It would be awesome if he discovered natural quantum immortality (consciousness without physical limits) and have the science to back it up as it would be very useful in scientific fields and open the door to many possibilities. Godspeed Sam Parnia. I look forward to the future and what you discover with your research.
Anyone who says NDE’s can be explained away with the hypothesis that the experience takes place when the bodily functions are returning hasnt looked in depth into NDE’s. This hypothesis is sufficient to explain some of the experiences, but it doesnt explain all the NDE phenomena.
the interviewer is so ignorant.There are so many reports from people who had NDE´s, but also people with psychedelic trips and daily meditators who will support this. Their interpretation might not always be spot on and It´s still not hard evidence, but it is enough to assume that consciousness exists after death.
man those crystals in the background is giving me life
I hate kinetic camera work, no matter however subtle.
Quantum Physics is explaining all of this! Read “My Big Toe” by nuclear physicist Dr Tom Campbell Phd. http://www.my-big-toe.com—–> Youtube Tom Campbell.
they are trying to explain the soul, without having to say its just that, lol. If they did, they would have to agree that there is an afterlife and a God and that there’s more to the universe than just science. People have known about an afterlife for centuries…science is just catching up?
Consciousness is NOT what Parnia says it is. The “hard problem” of consciousness, ie, identifying what it is, exactly, remains as difficult as possible. Consciousness transcends but includes personality traits, but the transcendent dimension totally evades scientifically-minded whoevers like Parnia. Being aware is not identical to what we are aware OF. This post is simply a total waste of time. Aristotle was wrong; Plato was right. Parnia and other scientists line up behind Aristotle. Too bad.
OK. First, the clip needs editting. It looks like there are several copies of the original stuck together.
Are there reports of these types of memories after coma, after deep anesthesia?
Assuming “flatlined” brain means no reading on an eeg, is there still some activity in the brain which is not so detectible?
Does memory construction require neuronal electrochemical activity?
Can Experience be assembled from memories captured during NDE? Experience being the Narrative explaining a set of memories.
My own thought is that Consciousness does not exist any more that the focal point of a lens exists. They are not “things”; they are relationships.
Is it me, or does this clip show the same segment more than once? Why? Or is that some trick of my subconscious, making me think I watched the same thing over again?
Film director must have received his camera dolly in the mail the day before this shoot. He was like, I’ma choo choo the the SHEAT out of this at tomorrow’s shoot!
A general rule of thumb is that brain cells begin to die after approximately 4-6 minutes of no blood-flow. After around 10 minutes, those cells will cease functioning, and be effectively dead. That said, there are some exceptions to that rule. Has a person been reviewed after 6 minutes or a day after the heart stops then the claim could or should be considered, but if it is in about 6 minutes after the heart stop that mean the brain is not dead yet. Not so fast Dear Dr. Being in ER doctor, can you really say you brought someone back after a few hours, It can be done in few minutes before all cells in brain still alive, but you know well it is not possible after brain cells are dead. If you say you have done it after an hour then consciousness live and if you say in few minutes, that is possible and hard to be used as a conclusion that consciousness lives. What do neuroscientists say about this? He is ES doctor and I am not sure if he has the ER patient in FMRI to tell what is happening with activity of the brain. Thank you for sharing your point of view. http://WWW.nlpsuccesscoaches.com 949-5221616
What about consciousness being produced by the brain and out side the brain at the same time!. For example the psychi or soul and brain works in tandem to produce consciousness. So when the brain dies, the soul picks up and continues to produce consciousness but is free to adhere its own rules once the physical link is broken!
Hey Anayah wonder if these men realize the crystals are listening and consciously thinking that what these men ponder is so ‘elementary and obvious’ so as to seem foolish
Usualy the poor, when theyre dead, in some countries, after brain dead lets say 5 minutes, they begin with organ transplantation, so if you listen to this guy on the video, they might hear how their organs ar taken of them, realy freaky thouth, but as i said, this happens only tho the poor peoples, not you guys…
He completely ignored the interviewers question at the very beginning about how this can possibly be measured. What has made him so comfortable in claiming this whiles there is no proof of the fact that the brain has actually “flat lined” whiles these experiences occur.
Setsuko why did you repeat the video multiple times have way through
The analogy of the tv set seems to be on the spot
Yes you can do it while the brain is functioning, loads of people do it, all the time !!!!
What is brain shut down? Brain does many work – consciously, involuntarily like breathing, digestion, hormone release and by reflex like in pulling out our foot when a thorn pricks accidentally. Also brain learns best practices of evolution and adaption thru our sense organs without our knowledge. This learning is not for us but to be passed into our offsprings and future generation. Doctors measure brain dead with EEG graph. However, cells survive for long with residual oxygen or anaerobically till they are attacked by pathogens or degenerate themselves overtime. Till such time, there is a possibility that the neurons conduct electrical impulse thru sense organ, particularly the ears, nose, skin and also eyes if not shut. The brain still has the memory and visual processing centre . It can hallucinate, visualise in the brains display. So the scientific explanation could be if death is somehow reversed clinically, the memory after death retains and comes back when back alive! Any thoughts?
There are even people on earth who can think without brains and have a normal life. Scientists knows that for a long time but kept it secret. However this will be revealed. In the beginning of the evolution there were only a few nerves because there were not so many feelings. Life after life our feelings grow by expereinces through all our lifes so we created more brains. Please read the books of Jozef Rulof http://www.rulof.org or the artikel of Newsletter, December 2017 Or the book Mentall Illnesses seen from the Side Beyond. The website is really wonderful.
Dr Parnia there is no use to explain him any further, the man just doesn’t get it.