Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality - Anil Seth
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When you wake up and open your eyes, a world (or at least your bedroom) suddenly appears. This is the mystery of consciousness: how do the billions of brain cells inside your head generate the experience of "being you?" Join neuroscientist Anil Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.
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Do you think science will ever completely explain consciousness– or will there always be something "left over?" If so, what?
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Parker Gills
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So true, we all have blind spots. If we think that we have everything figured out through science, we deny that we have blind spots and we deny the existence of God.
Parker Gills
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Science has explained many unanswered questions, however many scientists have started to recognize a designer or God as these answers are discovered. Consciousness is defined by many specialties in medicine, but the definitions will become distorted as AI develops. Science has and will explain many questions about consciousness, but it will not explain every aspect of consciousness. There is an aspect to the conscious mind that transcends AI. That is the difference between living versus programming.
Sebastian Lawrence
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I feel like there will always be something left over because not all minds are alike and even till this day there are new things being descovered.
Nanna Boas
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i think(haha) consciousness creates, "The only limit is imagination". its our perception that controls and determine our reality so why not
Amberly Bransford
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A general definition of consciousness could possibly be discovered, but the true meaning of consciousness for every individual will never truly be defined.
Laine Van Waes
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I think science will never fully explain consciousness for humans but leave us the basic idea.
Madison Chiles
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I think there will always be "left over" because not one person can know everything about the brain and consciousness. So there will always be left overs due to the fact that we have not learned everything from the consciousness of the mind.
Dontae Mccallister
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I don't think it will happen because we don't have the same thoughts as any other person and it would be hard to go only based off of ourself
Hannah Bowman
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No, our brains still develop as we age and there are just some things that don't have ends to them and are still trying to be figured out till today.
Amy Tish
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We will never fully understand because the brain is trying to figure out how the brain works. There is always going to be something new. There is going to be stuff we just don't understand