Is consciousness a fundamental aspect of reality? Short answer: No. Long answer: No, but it's very interesting to think about why

The video I'm responding to:    • Is Everything Conscious? Within Reaso...  

Some other videos about the philosophy of consciousness:    • What Philosophers Mean by "Mental" an...  

Cluade Shannon's original paper on information theory ❤️: https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/...

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0:00 - Context

0:41 - Recap on physicalism and dualism

8:23 - Recap on panpsychism

11:04 - The "magic trick" of dualism

12:28 - Information is a physical quantity

14:58 - Intro to sensory brain circuits

17:36 - Rational brain circuits

20:34 - Qualia as a sanity safety measure

24:52 - Intro to Synesthesia

27:47 - Synesthesia is a problem for Dualism

30:50 - Mary's Room 2: Synesthesic Boogaloo

33:27 - We are all philosophical zombies, and that's okay =3

36:59 - Panpsychism and the free will of conscious particles

38:50 - Consciousness as a hidden variable

39:55 - Consciousness X Wavefunction