Andrés

And as you say, a very, very simple form of consciousness could be present in a quark. How would that translate and scale from that experience to the rich inner life of a human being?

I do wonder what the inherent limitations of one such area of exploration are. If consciousness is what gives rise to mathematics, can we use mathematics to ever explain consciousness? Can we understand the totality from the limits of a part, in a sense? It's kind of like the chicken or the egg. In a sense, if consciousness is fundamental,

I do wonder what the inherent limitations of one such area of exploration are. If consciousness is what gives rise to mathematics, can we use mathematics to ever explain consciousness? Can we understand the totality from the limits of a part, in a sense? It's kind of like the chicken or the egg. In a sense, if consciousness is fundamental,

I do wonder what the inherent limitations of one such area of exploration are. If consciousness is what gives rise to mathematics, can we use mathematics to ever explain consciousness? Can we understand the totality from the limits of a part, in a sense? It's kind of like the chicken or the egg. In a sense, if consciousness is fundamental,

then would it not give rise to mathematics and therefore could not be perhaps explained by it? Say that last sentence again. Like if consciousness gave rise to mathematics, then mathematics and theory would not be able to explain it perhaps.

then would it not give rise to mathematics and therefore could not be perhaps explained by it? Say that last sentence again. Like if consciousness gave rise to mathematics, then mathematics and theory would not be able to explain it perhaps.

then would it not give rise to mathematics and therefore could not be perhaps explained by it? Say that last sentence again. Like if consciousness gave rise to mathematics, then mathematics and theory would not be able to explain it perhaps.

Yeah, it does deliver the goods in many ways. And as you shared, explains in many ways how the universe works, but doesn't quite crack what the universe is and why the universe is the way it is. And consciousness starts to crack the door into those explorations, I think, deeper. It does seem almost anti-intuitive as so much of deeper truths are paradoxical.

Yeah, it does deliver the goods in many ways. And as you shared, explains in many ways how the universe works, but doesn't quite crack what the universe is and why the universe is the way it is. And consciousness starts to crack the door into those explorations, I think, deeper. It does seem almost anti-intuitive as so much of deeper truths are paradoxical.

Yeah, it does deliver the goods in many ways. And as you shared, explains in many ways how the universe works, but doesn't quite crack what the universe is and why the universe is the way it is. And consciousness starts to crack the door into those explorations, I think, deeper. It does seem almost anti-intuitive as so much of deeper truths are paradoxical.

I can tinker with your brain and your conscious experience radically changes. And so it seems pretty obvious that our consciousness is intimately linked with our brain. And it would be fair to assume for, you know, in our recent understandings of consciousness that it seems like our brain gives rise to consciousness.

I can tinker with your brain and your conscious experience radically changes. And so it seems pretty obvious that our consciousness is intimately linked with our brain. And it would be fair to assume for, you know, in our recent understandings of consciousness that it seems like our brain gives rise to consciousness.

I can tinker with your brain and your conscious experience radically changes. And so it seems pretty obvious that our consciousness is intimately linked with our brain. And it would be fair to assume for, you know, in our recent understandings of consciousness that it seems like our brain gives rise to consciousness.

If consciousness is fundamental, how do you kind of wrestle with that clear sort of dilemma? Good. Yeah.

If consciousness is fundamental, how do you kind of wrestle with that clear sort of dilemma? Good. Yeah.

If consciousness is fundamental, how do you kind of wrestle with that clear sort of dilemma? Good. Yeah.

How would you articulate why the hard problem is called hard as opposed to in physics and math and understanding the material universe, there are problems that we can just work out by essentially doing the math and the arising of consciousness seems particularly hard because I feel like we just can't fully understand why a subjective experience would arise out of matter, you know?

How would you articulate why the hard problem is called hard as opposed to in physics and math and understanding the material universe, there are problems that we can just work out by essentially doing the math and the arising of consciousness seems particularly hard because I feel like we just can't fully understand why a subjective experience would arise out of matter, you know?

How would you articulate why the hard problem is called hard as opposed to in physics and math and understanding the material universe, there are problems that we can just work out by essentially doing the math and the arising of consciousness seems particularly hard because I feel like we just can't fully understand why a subjective experience would arise out of matter, you know?

So how would you articulate it?