What is consciousness? How does it originate? Why does it seem to be a trait primarily found in some living organisms with relatively complex brains? How does the brain generate the feeling of existence? Why each of us has our own inner universe? How does the functioning of the 86 billion brain cells create this seemingly meta-physical realm of thoughts and emotions? Does it all come from some precise arrangements of cell connections in the brain?

Is there an aspect of consciousness that can’t be explained by physical facts alone?
Is it an intrinsic aspect of nature that exists beyond the physical laws?
Being human and having subjective experiences is a truly remarkable and privileged experience, but what if this extraordinary experience expands beyond biological entities? Could there be also an experience comparable to being a star or a planet?

Where does consciousness originate? When it begins? Why does it exist within us? Why does it exist at all?

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
04:44 Physicalism
08:25 Emergentism
10:41 Self-organization
14:20 Entropy
17:30 Panpsychism
28:13 (IIT) Integrated information theory
33:34 (IIT) Essential properties of consciousness
35:41 (IIT) Unconscious states
37:41 (IIT) Simulating, cloning, mind uploading
41:10 (IIT) Review & criticisms
43:36 Conclusion


Major sources:
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Papers:
Philosophy of Mind: Physicalism
Barbara Gail Montero

The Hope and Horror of Physicalism: An Existential Treatise
Christopher Devlin Brown

Statistical mechanics of consciousness: Maximization of information content of network is associated with conscious awareness
R. Guevara Erra, D. M. Mateos, R. Wennberg, and J. L. Perez Velazquez

Integrated information structure collapses with anesthetic loss of conscious arousal in Drosophila melanogaster

Brain basis of self: self-organization and lessons from dreaming
David Kahn

Books:
Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
Giulio Tononi

The Character of Consciousness (Philosophy of Mind)
David J. Chalmers

Is Consciousness Everywhere?: Essays on Panpsychism (Journal of Consciousness Studies)
Philip Goff, Alex Moran, Annaka Harris, Christof Koch, Anil Seth, Galen Strawson

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