Conscious
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You cannot have a
conscious
mind if you don't have the interaction between cerebral cortex and brain stem.
You cannot have a
conscious
mind if you don't have the interaction between the brain stem and the body.
So throughout vertebrates, the design of the brain stem is very similar to ours, which is one of the reasons why I think those other species have
conscious
minds like we do.
The product is created through environmentally and socially
conscious
means.
And finally, random acts of kindness are
conscious
acts of kindness.
And we continuously make the
conscious
decision to reach that balance.
Every generation will use the images that they got at the beginning of their
conscious
lives as a standard and will extrapolate forward.
But then, why am I
conscious?
Will robots become
conscious
one day?
In fact, those of you who are still
conscious
and mathematically competent, will note that this is a semi-log plot.
I think we're transitioning into Homo evolutis that, for better or worse, is not just a hominid that's
conscious
of his or her environment, it's a hominid that's beginning to directly and deliberately control the evolution of its own species, of bacteria, of plants, of animals.
The sound around us is affecting us even though we're not
conscious
of it.
Communication requires sending and receiving, and I have another whole TEDTalk about the importance of
conscious
listening, but I can send as well as I like, and you can be brilliant
conscious
listeners.
It comes completely
conscious.
Ultimately, the goal, once we understand how these subtle effects can change our decision making, we want to be able to provide people tools so that they can consciously make themselves better savers and more
conscious
investors in their own future.
I'm going to share data with you from one aspect of my research focused on architecture that demonstrates how, through both
conscious
and unconscious design, we're impacting these invisible worlds.
A
conscious
approach to design, I'm calling it bioinformed design, and I think it's possible.
When you write, because it's a
conscious
process, because you can look backwards, you can do things with language that are much less likely if you're just talking.
People who were really design
conscious
were inspired by the work of Dieter Rams, and the objects that he would create for the company called Braun.
He was
conscious
until the very end, but on his last day he couldn't talk.
It goes hand in hand with doubt, in a never-ending conversation with it, and sometimes in
conscious
defiance of it.
And this
conscious
defiance is why I, as an agnostic, can still have faith.
From a small blue planet, tiny,
conscious
parts of our universe have begun gazing out into the cosmos with telescopes, discovering something humbling.
Other animals are
conscious.
And I've noticed so many people now take
conscious
measures to sit quietly for 30 minutes every morning just collecting themselves in one corner of the room without their devices, or go running every evening, or leave their cell phones behind when they go to have a long conversation with a friend.
Well, it is the most important aspect of our lives for a very simple, logical reason, namely, it's a necessary condition on anything being important in our lives that we're
conscious.
And here it is: All of our
conscious
states, without exception, are caused by lower-level neurobiological processes in the brain, and they are realized in the brain as higher-level or system features.
And just as the jar full of water can go from liquid to solid depending on the behavior of the molecules, so your brain can go from a state of being
conscious
to a state of being unconscious, depending on the behavior of the molecules.
But for that distinction between how things consciously seem and how they really are, you can't make that distinction for the very existence of consciousness, because where the very existence of consciousness is concerned, if it consciously seems to you that you are conscious, you are
conscious.
I mean, if a bunch of experts come to me and say, "We are heavy-duty neurobiologists and we've done a study of you, Searle, and we're convinced you are not conscious, you are a very cleverly constructed robot," I don't think, "Well, maybe these guys are right, you know?"
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