Bernard Carr, cosmologist and friend of Hawking, on consciousness and parapsychology
Our brains do not produce consciousness, they ‘filter’ it and consciousness is related to the higher dimensions in string theory. In this thought provoking conversation, distinguished Professor of mathematics and astronomy Bernard Carr explains his theory of consciousness and psi-phenomena.
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00:00 Introduction
05:02 How did you get involved with parapsychology?
09:41 Bernard on trying to weigh a soul…
13:50 Is psychical research science?
16:03 The Enfield poltergeist claim
25:59 Are Psi phenomena real?
26:58 On the importance of true skepticism
28:55 Where are we in studying these phenomena scientifically?
34:44 Is having a scientific background a hindrance or a help when it comes to studying these phenomena?
38:55 In what sense are most scientists not ‘believing’ the phenomena?
43:54 On a post-materialist science
44:38 How does your notion of time relate to psi phenomena?
53:16 What is the relationship between time and consciousness?
1:01:10 Is time real?
1:04:20 What is the ‘specious present’?
1:06:38 You might argue planet Earth is conscious
1:09:16 On the experience of time when falling
1:11:56 When the specious present seems to expand
1:15:51 How does the concept of the specious present explain certain psychic phenomena?
1:19:11 Natalia on the slowing down of time when falling off a mountain
1:23:17 Bernard on the movies Inception and Interstellar
1:24:44 Is time just a dial on our dashboard of perception?
1:27:25 When you either experience an eternal now or an eternal always…
1:28:00 On experiencing the transcendence of space and time
1:30:07 How do you interact with the world when you are in a different specious present?
1:32:53 How athletes are successful due to a specious present that is slowed down
1:33:58 What if our specious present is expanding?
1:37:02 Bernards view on the fine tuning problem
1:41:11 On the multiverse
1:42:47 Is there something before the Big Bang?
1:47:34 Hawking’s theory about the origin of time
1:50:59 There must be a genesis of the universe, right?
1:52:06 God and the Big Bang
1:54:44 What is consciousness to you?
1:57:12 Are there actually ‘laws’ of physics?
2:01:32 Is a final theory possible?
2:05:08 How to fit consciousness – per definition the first-person experience – into science, which is about the third-person experience?
2:11:16 How to make a new physics that accommodates consciousness testable?
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@REDPUMPERNICKEL
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
Right or wrong, Bernard,
neuroscience is not about the meaning of the word 'conscious'.
Neuroscience is about how neurons work.
@Sinner119
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
please, I cant take hearing people swallowing it's severely disruptive to my system. why is the mic that sensitive? Don't you all have sound workers?
@thomassoliton1482
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
It doesn't seem that telepathy, precognition, or any Psy phenomena have been conclusively proven to exist. Even if they do, seems likely only some people have those abilities – probably rich people! Also if God exists, he must have enabled people to have them – but would he want people to know they definitely exist, especially if he only let some people have them? I think not, but of course I can't prove that. However, if you are a psychic researcher, be aware that even if "Psy" phenomena exist, God probably would make sure you couldn't prove it.
@integralsun
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
Consciousness will explain all branches of modern science. The Rig Ved succinctly states that “Knowledge is Structured in Consciousness”. The home of all the laws of nature resides in the pure silent field of universal non-physical cosmic consciousness.
@pdjinne65
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
I didn't believe any of this stuff until I saw the CIA reports on remote viewing. Fascinating stuff!
@ArchitectVengeance
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
I am working on a hypothesis that is going to explain particle wave duality in a way that expresses that there are even smaller fundamental units of matter and they are malleable and they come together to vibrate a particle into existence
But without the need for higher dimensions and it could be falsifiable in the lab if I'm given the equipment that way I don't spend 20 years down the rabbit hole..
But in my heart of hearts I know that there is an intermediary mechanism between wave and particle just like everything has a natural process of formation
I am a poet not a physicist.
But I am leveraging A.I.
To do my simulations
@TJB_333
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
Wow! Complicated consciousness communicated clearly. Funny how Bernard Carr isn't accepted in physics journals, but Dean Radin's are. These 2 perspectives need to meet.
@CouplesLite
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
Makes sense explaining the connection between the Physical and the Metaphysical-Spiritual where consciousness resides-exists. I hope one day they can bridge the gap between God and the natural world.
@louismathews6831
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
I follow these types of topics best I can and I really do want to believe in a world beyond our world, I try all types of things, but I am afraid up to date I have not yet experienced anything truly supernatural.
@WallySoto-yi8fz
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
Exactly! So, why even go through this futile road via more superfluous explanations.
@shankarachela
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
Consciousness is prime, it goes beyond the material world, we experience thoughts feeling and emotion and we know that the past experiences those things is beyond that which those things are,
if we consider the consciousness of the universe it is more than the sum of its parts, there is the concepts that the universe is made up of many beings at different levels of consciousness, which I suggest we observe in the vegetable animal and human kingdoms, and that the mineral kingdom is the substance From which the vegetable kingdom grows, the Animal Kingdom is a precursor to the human kingdom and both of these depend upon the vegetable kingdom. Everything in the universe is in motion, as science tells us we cannot arrive at absolutely zero physically only as a concept. And in the sense where there is motion there is energy and in a very primitive sense life even in atoms. I use the word primitive in the sense that atoms, Subatomic particles are prime. That is first and evolution proceeds as a result of consciousness inherent in the very substance of the universe. !
Sorry if I'm rambling on a bit but if you're interested in any of these concepts
please read the books of John Todd Ferrier !
They give insights into the nature of all spiritual questing which is for the Divine love, this is the essential driving force behind the universe and behind human endeavour, whether it be the love of physics, or flowers or of a human being, or ultimately the in all Life of the planet ! The whole life of the universe perhaps !💙😋💜
@kerry-ch2zi
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
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@moBashurov
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
A lot of data on altered states of consciousness (mentioned many times in this video) displays the cease of the boundary between the experiencer and one's objects. This data seems to eliminate the question of whether time is the property of the mind or of the reality perceived by this mind—they are just one and the same.
@moBashurov
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
The interesting thing about Bernard Carr's worldview and theories is that they reflect both some aspects of the world and what Bernard is by himself. And thus these aspects of the world are not presented as they are – on the contrary, they are shaped by Bernard Carr. This thing, however, cannot cause any disappointment – we do not have a simple distortion of reality. Instead, we have both data on reality and the data of Bernard's perceiving mind. Seeing an interaction between these two is a great way of knowing how things are.
@johnpoppenhusen4178
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
If we exist long enough, we will acknowledge that mind over matter is a fact. It's in our future evolution.
@juliebarks3195
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
Row row row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream.
@JustReed
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
If one is closed down and rigid in their approach to truth. One will find nothing except that which they are searching for.
@bruceylwang
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
3000 years ago, one Chinese said, “Word is said, not always Word. Name is named, not always name.”
Our Cells say, “We have no problem to understand nature. What exactly are scientists searching for? What exactly are you guys wanting for? “
Humans seem to like to create some strange ideas to confuse their minds.
@emilyanawalt7703
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
Couldn't then, Matt, the virtual reality simulation stuck behind a pair of notnilk's virtual reality goggles equally be considered a convergence of heaven and hell ?
@leonardooliva195
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
Bernard is in the right path. All those things are in the book The Great Synthesis – future guide to humanity.
@jamestait324
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
A thought about the expanded or compressed time effect. The less closely your consciousness is "linked" to your body, the less it seems to be linked to the passage of objective time. In a near death or out-of-body experience, the sense of the passage of time becomes completely subjective. This is how an individual can "relive their whole life" in a minute, or a whole day goes by in one second.
@metronomeblues1028
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
One thing I wish Physicists would look into is the fact that we all are physical molecules travelling through space at 800km per second (2.8 mil. km/hour). It occurs to me that outer body experiences, intense spiritual experiences that transcend "space and time", meditational experience of the "Unified Field", intuitively to me, at least, seems to mirror exactly the true reality of, literally, flying through space. It is the illusion of "stillness" as some absolute state, thanks to gravity, that throws us. Ironically, it is through stillness, while meditating for example, that one can experience what appear to be "cosmic" experiences, when in fact it seems you are experiencing the truly known state of things. How does the speed we are moving relate to consciousness and does it affect the various states of consciousness we, as a species, seem to have access to?
@jimawhitaker
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
I don't know who you are but you are a wonder. Much like a dark forest, beautiful and still with most of what's happening hidden… Love the show ♀️
@jennyboomboom5959
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
True scientific minds are always open to possibility. They never claim anything is an absolute.
@microchip5673
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
So I was watching a video yesterday that was discussing the possible correlation between time and consciousness and I noticed something but It could really be a coincidence. The time we use is based off of the sun and all of our activities are based around that. People is also told to worship God on Sunday. I know people used to worship a sun god and I wonder if it’s a coincidence or are people hard core worshiping a sun god and is clueless? What’s your opinion?
@dannyhuelva4897
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
I like Bernard Carr’s ideas. ❤
@parthenocarpySA
October 28, 2024 at 1:03 am
Almost nothing can be fully explained. You cant describe gravity to someone, but you can describe the human model of gravity which tightly approximates but does not duplicate actual gravity. When you realize all we create are human models, and understand that computers work exclusively with and inside those human models, it becomes very hard to believe a computer could become conscious. It would not be experiencing or understanding anything beyond the constraints of the models forced upon it