"Consciousness as an illusion" is incoherent, because an illusion, by definition, requires an observer to be tricked by it. When you say "my consciousness is an illusion", who is the implied "I" perceiving the illusion? If "I" can perceive the illusion that I exist, then I must exist in order to appreciate the illusion. But if I exist, I cannot be an illusion, because I am conscious of the illusion I'm perceiving. It's another form of the "I am lying" paradox.

I love how this show gives a balanced and fair view of the different views available. It’s the best way to get closer to truth

SUGGESTION. Dr. Kuhn, you should consider offering a ZOOM VIDEO CALL to your many viewers and supporters for 60-90 minutes. You can speak about a topic and give folks a chance to ask questions. It’d be great publicity for the further global growth of CTT!

After 50 years one evening had a very interesting moment I realize I was the solo creator off my life's confusion worries and lifes efforts. I laugh so hard on myself that feeling hasn't come back But Im so happy cause what happened was beyond me .

Mr.Richard Swinburne broke it down very very well.👌

You are throwing out important content like no other Robert!

@6:50 "Cmon, J.P.!" LOL

Consciousness is real, as Descartes stated. The problem is to explain why we perceive what we perceive.

Consciousness connects the physical with the spiritual. Choice connects quantum possibilities to free will; language connects the human person to the mind of the universe; awareness connects physical reality to fullness. In so doing consciousness demonstrates human experience of God.

This is gold!!

God bless you. Great search Regards

These complex arguments for the existence of God are interesting but in my opinion just a consequence of the nature of our brain, as was mentioned. If there was evidence for God and he wanted us to know him, we would without exception. However we don't, at least many of us, but so many more think they do.

Four elements and five senses, and man a spirit in love...

I'd like to see this question being brought up with Dr. Donald Hoffman. Think his work is leading with the fundamental agent of conciousness

The Knowledge of Human consciousness given here is the experience, which we always get in deep Meditation and at this stage when we detach from the physical body and we see our self as eternal light sitting between Hypothalamus and Pituitary gland of Brain as Controller. In reality, we are not this mortal physical body but a point of metaphysical light energy i.e Consciousness Quantum Spiritual Energy (CQSE i.e. I soul an conscious observer), which is very subtle, immortal. We are "Consciousness energy" communicated with Human brain through quasi-crystal geometrical code frequency language in quantum space. Human brain has ability to “connect” and understand this quasi-crystal geometrical code frequency language through mechanism of Sacred Geometry field of "Shree Yantra". In scientific experiment consciousness acts as an observer. CQSE is itself consciousness creator and operates human body through its control circuit via brain and power circuit via subtle light body. In Short CQSE's basic frequencies acts on brain by creating vibrations through Aether energy (quantum vacuum energy) medium, which creates electromagnetic bio-photons through torsion waves and these acts on microtubules of brain as per quantum computing, which gives signals to neurons for transmission of vibrations under mechanism of unified sacred geometric field which collapse of quantum wave functions of CQSE's hyperplanck space which gives experience to us. CQSE with the help of 10-dimensional Strings which are connected to 16 Aethric energy points (as per pic), creates Aether energy in Planck's small space called Hilbert Space under Lagrangian mechanics and this Aetheric energy gives power to 37 trillion cells of our body with 7 major and 6 minor energy centers. and with the help of brain's Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Pineal gland and with 100 billion neurons, the CQSE control all the movements of our body. CQSE give program to DNA via morphogenetic field to build organs of body. We carry information of present Karmic account in quasi-crystal geometry code of Aether energy for next birth to create Human body as per our Karmic account. The Universe is Collective Dynamics Consciousness of GOD's Quantum Mind, Intellect and Resolves (Sanskars) in form of Aether energy neural network Cosmic grid, which he keep in form of storage of Aether frequencies as Akashic record in White hole and His Intellect acts as Gforce to create 16 forces i.e Gravity, Electromagnetic, Nuclear force etc though his divine virtues and power in super quantum gravity field which works on these Aether frequencies to create reality of universe through Resolves (Sanskars) i.e Cosmometry. The patterns of E8 lattice geometry which created from Star geometry of self bounding all matter of creation with Time as Cyclic Geometrical Conscious entity with infinite Sacred geometrical patters of Aether energies. This is the real Cosmic dance of Natraj... Akashic records are Quantum Mind of GOD, the sustenance of entire cosmic creation by one Gforce is Intellect of GOD and playing Cosmic dance in Cyclic Sacred Geometrical patterns (Cosmometry) are Resolves (Sanskars) of Almighty GOD. Cosmometry is describing the divine patterns of GOD for universe creation.

I'd love it if you'd interview Bernardo Kastrup. Very well thought out ideas about consciousness, thanks!

“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself” - Carl Sagan This always struck me as a Christian listening to an atheist. A happy medium. But what is the cosmos, was it sacrificed to be able for us to enjoy it? Or is it still there knowing what we know about being present .

Awareness is known by awareness alone.

Linking consciousness with God is rather simple. God exists and God has consciousness, so God passes his consciousness to the world. Scientifically, when you “accept” the concept of “intangible mass-energy”, you would be able to construct an intangible structure and analyze the intangible world. Such as, Parent’s characters will pass on to the baby by Mental Gene. Intangible mass-energy, Mental Structure and Mental Gene are the keywords to approach the intangible world.

When my brain recalls inappropriate images, or negative thoughts,... my conciousness will bring my brains thoughts into obedience to what I would rather my brain think or remember.

Consciousness is always associated with a conscious, experiencing personality so I didn't understand what is the problem (refer: Kuhn's doubt at the end of the JP Moreland segment). Or, am I missing something? Could someone please help me in this regard?🙏

A piece from a new book titled: Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach into the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlie all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law which allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice verse. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment of time than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to between making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, or producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always to respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result from any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things in a conventional way - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life - including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream - already exists within us. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLhld8eiz7Pcl3U.html Let go, and let God - Olivia Newton-John Nam Myoho Renge Kyo Let go, and let God - Olivia Newton-John Nam Myoho Renge Kyo www.youtube.com

I cant help but imagin men like these, some 2 thousand years ago, discussing what was the way to get closer to truth ! What God was the real one amongst numerous deities of that epoch. They, the jewish thinkers, decided on one God who has the powers of all the others, one great God. Today, we still beleive. Beleive that if we don’t we might be sent to hell by that same all loving great God. The story is adapted to people living thousands of years ago and yet, seemingly very intelligent people are still stuck in the hope the Daddy God might save us after we die.

I think the best argument from consciousness was Schrödinger’s... that consciousness is foundational (irreducible) and universal. In other words - we are one and the same process of consciousness living many seemingly separate existences in many different bodies. That Unity - of which we are all part, is what we call God. “Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity-the One of Parmenides-of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God-with a capital 'G'. Science is, very usually, branded as being atheistic. After what we said, this is not astonishing. If its world-picture does not even contain blue, yellow, bitter, sweet-beauty, delight and sorrow-, if personality is cut out of it by agreement, how should it contain the most sublime idea that presents itself to human mind?”

There is evidences of consciousness without a brain , near death experiences with reliable data about what was happening when the pacient was clinically death ( they describe every detail in emergency room )

I agree with JP

16:05 "My conviction swings wildly..." Strange, his conviction is not that convincing.

Atheist here. It is surprising that all of the atheist philosophers are basically saying that consciousness is an example of so called strong emergence which itself needs explaining. It signals that we either do not fully understand how the constituting parts, neurons and/or their activity form the emergent phenomena, or simply that there is something else to it. That something might be anything and we just don't know. There is no example of real proven strong emergence and I don't see why counsiousness should be an exception. Also, saying that the lyon is clearly conscious if it is chasing me means ignoring the hard problem of consciousness. The presenter shows great patience with some of these philosophers. I can not understand how someone can be a philosopher and trivialize this question. I swear it puzzles me more than the question itself

SIGNATURE IN THE CELL..This book.& author not as only studiied all of Darwins nautural selections..but has proven that there is intelligent design in DNA. What a blow to athiest community

I believe morality is a better argument than consciousness

Consciousness is not an illusion. First thought that arises from consciousness is the "I thought" This root thought transforms into other thoughts like "I am this body" These evolving thoughts gives rise to the illusion we live in. Holding on to the root thought and finding it's source is the Goal of Yoga Once we reach it, there is no false identification and hence no death

The discussions of consciousness should first define the spectrum of simplest to complex states of consciousness. Part of the issue is the amorphous definition of consciousness. Smelling of garlic and stating that back to interrogator can be a simplest form of consciousness based on previously remembered named pattern. The complex end is the conscious entity thinking about and trying to understand what it is i.e. self reflection. BTW the former is easy to implement in machines these days and almost not mysterious. for example when a smelling machine is looking up the pattern of sensory input pattern of chemicals in garlic with the previously stored named smell perception patterns, comparing, matching (albeit fuzzily) one and preparing to report the match and also retrieving related patterns of related memory patterns in active processing cache - that process can be thought of as the machine experiencing that smell. Secondly the discussions should include not only when the consciousness is fully intact, but when it is diminished or completely absent because of corresponding changes to brain stucture (injury or surgery) or state (chemical induced - drugs, anesthesia or hypoxia in NDEs). Then talk about the degree of diminishing and corresponding degree of changes to brain structure and state. In diminished states the consciousness is more and more not interesting. Then honestly discuss is this because of correlations or causation - like any other scientific investigation. I know it is fashionable to say correlations is not causation. I am not sure until what degree correlation is not causation. Also how is it that a consciousness does not instantiate in more that one substrate as far as we know. Lastly starting from an assertion that consciousness is not physical is denying our agreement that there is no evidence of consciousness without a physical substrate. Just asserting does not make it so. We have to conduct observations to conclude that. As an aside: How come NDEs only happen when the brain structure and state is intact? Are there significant NDE cases that happen after say a month or even a week of declaration of death?

Leaving solipsism aside, I always wonder what kind of metaphysical process comes about that makes it possible for each and every person to have a first person perspective? Does each person take turns having awareness, and that consciousness jumps around from person to person througout history, one at a time? Or is there some "parallel processing" going on that makes it possible for everyone to have their own consciousness simultaneously? I'd think that God would sort of be an grand "administrator" that ensures that billions of people would have their own perspective, and to help prevent one's consciousness from seeping into another person.

As I am a Problacist (see Problacism.com) I believe the universe guides me in what It wants me to do and how I should make it happen. I consider myself to be one of the most blessed on this planet and I do not care whether anybody believes me or not.

God's free will sovereignty

My digital piano is not conscious and doesn't require fine-tuning. Dare I say the obvious, it's good enough for Jehovah

If you take out language from the context, where consciousness goes? As experiment; we bring up a human without letting him learn any language, will consciousness be still there 🤔

God lead to consciousness.all of us have.but how to be conscious?.if we use our ❤️ the will give information to our subconscious to become conscious.

Science is a miracle

Time to look up and speak to Bernardo Kastrup.

Consciousness is not created but creation is an act of consciousness.

Advaita Vedanta makes it very clear. Look up Sarvapriyananda on KZfaq for in-depth understanding of the Upanishads. Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramana Maharshi are great teachers too.

Something from 'The wave function of the universe' emerges in the brain. We call it consciousness. To see it fully requires 'A minds eye', 'Presence of mind' and a 'Soul' behind it. During sleep, presence of the conscious mind relinquishes duty to the subconscious mind, which peeks through the 'Minds eye', at the emergence, to do its thing (dream, get scared, give insight, solve problems, etc..). When the conscious mind wakes, it applies rationale to the subconscious's visions to gain knowledge. When the conscious mind becomes super-conscious, it sees deeper into the emergence and experiences something enlightening. But why?

Robert Lawrence I personally invite you to discuss consciousness with me. Just think what could be the idea of consciousness from a common man's perspective who is not having any expertise in that field. Perhaps you may find it or in your words you may reach one step closer to truth.

@11:31 Richard Swinbern has such an unusual way of speaking english that you could either be perplexed or convinced, simultaneously, by anything he said. Imagine reciting the weather report that way. Don't be fooled Larry.

According to spiritology, death is memory and consciousness is life. Life is composed of love and lite. Life is the father of existence while death is the mother. Death as a mother of existence is composed of time and space. In between death and life that connects is awareness. Awareness is intuition, time is instinct while space is information. Lite on the other hand is thought while love is feeling. While thought is in the mind and feeling is in the emotion, consciousness is in the conscience. Conscience is god. Mind, conscience and emotion compose the soul. This world creatures are in is the only child of life and death and it is awareness which is god that god is good and evil is bad. Let us evade sin.

Having a key and searching for what it opens?

Quintin's argument only refutes the Abrahamic conception of god/cosmic consciousness that has some kind of goodness

There is an important aspect of consciousness that has been left unexamined here. Its relationship to memory. Science tells us that we dream, yet we often don't remember our dreams. Does this mean we were unconscious when we are dreaming?

The guy at 16:15 really nailed it. All the evidence is that brain activity produces consciousness. Saying “but it’s just so amazing, though” isn’t a counter argument.

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Moreland is right

Can you summarise all different faiths ideas about animals and why humans are supposed different?

Nice material You should study the *TAO*

To me the best explanation is that it is built into matter in some way which we can not detect (in the same way as dark matter for example). And that it was built into matter and the evolutionary process by a natural transformer, natural intelligence which existed and itself had evolved in the "cosmic soup" prior to the Big Bang. If something never began to exist, changes in what has existed creates structures which forms natural intelligence, in the same way as clouds very seldom create 10 cm hail balls for example. In other words, we are not the first intelligent existence, but maybe the first with an existence in the form of matter. This is called evolutionary pandeism, there never has been a Creator, just a transformer which transformed itself in the Big Bang process, with an intent and vision. It wanted to experience itself in a richer way (with matter) than it could, just being a thinking entity/structure.

I would like to know how self preservation was developed in single cell organisms.

I'm starting to think Consciousness is a substrate, or field of a, the universe... and we be something of a fruit of that substrate, growing and evolving out of that

We know how forces are exchanged and charges are conserved, what an interesting notion from theist. I would very much like to know how charges are conserved. So there's that potential going in stuff and nothing happens until it suddenly does. And it's always the same, charge seems to build up until certain level, that it snap and jump somewhere else. This model sounds intuitive but it's really not that simple, because energy can't exist on it's own, potential is always related to potentials in it's environment. So there's that process going on where charges are streams of radiation, traveling in all directions. Those energies are discrete, but distances between particles are not, if they want to exchange charges, energy must flow over some shortest path of least resistance. And distance add time component to process, packets of energy might be discrete, but their frequency vary with motion over space. This might explain part of a problem, we perceive flow of thoughts because information is shaped inside a nervous tissue structure. Brains are like space, except distances are fixed, but not eternal and unmovable since molecules of brains are constantly replaced. It's like if we would observe stars, but they would vibrate in place slightly and fall apart, being replaced by a new, same kind of star. How would that kind of universe function, physics would work like Alzheimer illness, forgetting about conservation of charges here and then and just do something. But reality doesn't work this way, consciousness does, because approximation of a stable and coherent mental universe is good enough for all individual practical purposes. Phenomena of consciousness is teaching us how physics can work, this is why we can come up with all those non rational ideas and invent all kinds of tools, designed to manipulate physical flow. It's not because we're smart but because we're broken, just the opposite of pure logic and extreme determinism of material universe.

Please try and interview Richard Rohr!

I don't see consciousness as abstract noun and conscious as abstract verb as analogous to kindness as abstract noun and kind as abstract verb. We can express kindness (or uniqueness, or power, anger, awareness, alertness, etc.) and stop it at will, but we cannot create and suspend our own consciousness at will. Secondly, consciousness is also different from these qualities because it is the medium from which any of them are expressed. And so we require our parents to have created our own consciousness, who required their own parents to create theirs, on and on until the very first prokaryote. At that point, a demand is made upon something outside the natural world to turn the immaterial to material.

“ I am that I am.. tell them I am sent you “

I enjoy videos like theses! I’m a great pseudo intellectual. 💀

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We are all eyes on the same head

When is RLK going to get around to talking with Bernardo Kastrup? Surely his case for the primacy of consciousness is at least as cogent as any of these guests, however Divine it may or may not be.

Consciousness can't come from an unconscious cause. Mind precedes matter. You can't give what you don't have. The cause must contain some features of the effect, whether formally or imminently. A mindless and unconscious "cause" cannot provide what it does not have, therefore, this case must be a conscious-mind.

Does anyone contest the idea that thinking, aka, the 'mind' or consciousness, is a process of a brain? If so, what evidence does one have for one's contention?

If there are pure immaterial consciousness' that indeed exist, how do we expect to use material science to observe this phenomenon? Isnt it peculiar that there are more books written in the name of science on consciousness, without a consensus? 🤔

Consciousness doesn’t prove the existence of God but points in that direction. Close but no cigar.

As you say, "you probably cannot find examples of conscious states floating freely without a self." And: 1) I don't think you are going to find examples of consciousness states floating freely with a self either. This is because consciousness is an unproven and unprovable story, due to indirect realism. 2) You would not know how to look for them. 3) You cannot prove something does not exist.

It's a mute argument. Even if consciousness arises from brain, the fact that it would doesn't negate consciousness as a determined intrinsic aspect of the Universe. The fact that our consciousnesses center around a "self" (soul) would seem to reflect that Universal Consciousness is also centered around a Super-Soul we call God.

GOD is always there for us, I think ''GOD" had created a system for us in which he cannot intervene directly otherwise this system he created will collapse. Sometimes he wanted to intervene directly to help us but he can't but indirectly GOD always try to help through messenger's or other means sometimes which we won't able to understand that GOD is helping us. GOD feel upset when we are in trouble & very happy when we are happy. We all are conscious beings our material body is mortal but consciousness is immortal. We all have to understand this, we can't ignore this reality.

If there was no concussions in the universe would it exist. Now there is something that will screw up your nights sleep.

Some men refuse to think as adults.

Moreland's and Swinburne's reasoning is so broken that we need a different word for it. I propose the word "theology".

Swinburne should release a rap album! 😂

Can consciousness exist without a gravity? Because only thing that bind entire universe besides God is gravity, those two principles must be correlated somehow.

At about 5 minutes, a thought occurred to me; "..trying to materialize something that is immaterial and outside of any ego. It - doesn't need to be bowed to or organized into something classical that lives in a guilt trip that's done nothing except drive people to madness and suicide. Thus I suppose "faith", whatever that is is still yet evolving from a jealous narcissist that lives above the clouds. Your physical body is the temple. Enslave it to no one of this physical world, or silly dogmas that are essentially a /He-man Woman Haters Club/, and control your emotions immersed in a stoicism so deep not even an evolved god can measure."

Awareness is also referring to God, as it is a clear sign for a person and not others ...

By his own argument at 6:20 consciousness is a property, a state, a process yet at 3:20 he states that consciousness is a thing that can't come from nothing. That consciousness cannot come from non consciousness is an assertion without foundation there is no rational argument here.

When Adam & Eve knew they were naked that's the time consciousness started in Theological perspective... consciousness enables us to know what's wrong & right, reasoning, etc. I find one more thing so misterious, when God said humans should stay away from the fruit of eternity otherwise they will not die and live forever like God...

The theistic argument from consciousness sounds like this to me: "Physics can't explain the phenomenal experience of wine. The Bible clearly states that we would expect there to be a phenomenal experience of wine if God is real. There is a phenomenal experience of wine, therefore God is real." If anything is going to convince me of theism, that kind of ethnocentric, ex post facto garbage reasoning most certainly is not.

Through the trial and error of natural selection, human consciousness involves a sense that is much stronger than those of other animals - a sense of time passing - past and future, and the ability to recall the past and project future outcomes. However, we are limited because we have a singular perspective - our own. Our limited individual consciousnesses are part of the larger consciousness of humanity in particular and the biosphere in general. Societies' "nervous systems" are the internet. So, when one part hurts badly, e.g. 9/11, the pain reverberates around many societies as if they were single super-organisms. I think this larger consciousness is still quite primitive, hence wars (as Quentin Smith hilariously noted). There is far to go yet. Richard Swinbourne may laugh at the idea of God creating robots, but that's what's happening. In the next century, machines will help (a small minority of) humans achieve extraordinary feats of mind by today's standards.

Also, if you want to explore consciousness as a path to religious enlightenment, you have to explore animal consciousness and how that may impact your view of the existence of a god.

George Carlin hits it right. See video: George Carlin - Saving the Planet.

Since consciousness was created by God?

What if consciousness is a frequency in the universe that brains are able to tune into just like a radio needs certain frequencies to work. Why doesn't consciousness evolve like our intellect. If that doesn't keep you awake nothing will.

God is the creator of our conciousness and Yes He is invisible ... you will not see Him with your eyes but rather with your heart.., The eyes of your soul... the same way you feel the air you never see.. or your thughts you never see or the breath you breath.... God says if you say there is no God You are a fool... Dont be a fool! God is coming back...

I love this channel but Ill have to stop watching before bed.

PLEASE PRODUCE MIT TRANSCRIPTS

It’s not that God created consciousness, it is that God is consciousness and consciousness is God. There is only consciousness. It is also aware of it’s Self and it’s Self is awareness :-) Some may have noticed that there is one paradox after another…. Fewer will realize that paradox is amazingly the perpetual motion machine of the universe. This is why everything in the universe there’s an ocean from Atoms to galaxies. it’s Infinitely beautiful, you can experience it for yourself ---- 5 M E O 👀

If God didn't create conscious minds, why would mindless processes create conscious minds? How?

But why distinguish between the "world of consciousness" and the "physical world"? I perceive both of them throw consciousness . There is nothing outside consciousness.

Brain is a quantum computer and consciousness collapses it , consciousness is more than than quantum process , it uses quantum processes in the brain . So consciousness is the base of all reality . God

Start with qualia, then wonder what stories could exist besides consciousness!

First dude forgot evolution's action upon material .

I think its clear there is much more going on than in this material world and I firmly believe conscieness (since it has NEVER been observed to come from non-consciousness) points to a conscious creator, certainly ....... believing that consciousness comes from absolutely nothing would be a huge leap of “faith”

Mr Kuhn if your brain can deceive you about consciousness, why can't it deceive you about that exact thought you had and about everything else? Not only this position is doomed to self-refutation, but you are always doomed to absolute skepticism.

I would suggest that studies of diseased and damaged brains, which show a clear change in the thoughts and beliefs of the individuals, would be a strong argument against any kind of consciousness that is independent of a brain.

You should consider the conscious argument for God as presented by Inspiring Philosophy. It shouldn't be so difficult to come to such an inherently rational conclusion as God. Particularly considering the idea that God "does not exist" is inherently irrational and could not explain the creation of our cosmos to any degree.