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But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness and even the possibility of transcendence.

It would be ridiculous to claim that we know how we make consciousness in our brains, but we certainly can begin to approach the question, and we can begin to see the shape of a solution.

At any rate, what is consciousness?

This is so specific that, for example, if you look at the part that is covered in red in the upper part of the brain stem, if you damage that as a result of a stroke, for example, what you get is coma or vegetative state, which is a state, of course, in which your mind disappears, your consciousness disappears.

You have, in effect, lost consciousness when you have damage to that red section of the brain stem.

And I strongly disagree with the idea that consciousness should be considered as the great product of the cerebral cortex.

I understand this timeless dictum as a statement about the problems, or more exactly, the confusions, of consciousness.

But despite this risk, I know as Elliot gets older and grows into her consciousness and language skills, if I don't correct people, she will.

What is consciousness?

We climb the staircase and experience a state of altered consciousness.

And when "Schindler's List" demanded that they never forget, one child, full of the pain of consciousness, remarked, "We already forgot, otherwise how did 'Hotel Rwanda' happen?"

Could we create some kind of collective intelligence that goes beyond an individual or a group or a team to create, perhaps, some kind of consciousness on a global basis?

So this is our footage of the launch, based on, basically, taking notes, asking people what they thought, and then the combination of all the different shots and all the different things put together created their sort of collective consciousness of what they remembered it looked like, but not what it really looked like.

You are now consciousness without an object, freed from the dimensionful and measured way in which life links us to the obligatory.

The synchrony of emotions that we experience when we hear an opera by Wagner, or a symphony by Brahms, or chamber music by Beethoven, compels us to remember our shared, common humanity, the deeply communal connected consciousness, the empathic consciousness that neuropsychiatrist Iain McGilchrist says is hard-wired into our brain's right hemisphere.

In the question of consciousness and artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence has really, like the study of consciousness, gotten nowhere, we have no idea how consciousness works.

Images like this, from the Auschwitz concentration camp, have been seared into our consciousness during the twentieth century and have given us a new understanding of who we are, where we've come from and the times we live in.

Now, many events can be subject to either construal, kind of like the classic figure-ground reversal illusions, in which you can either pay attention to the particular object, in which case the space around it recedes from attention, or you can see the faces in the empty space, in which case the object recedes out of consciousness.

In fact, I now call the underwater wheelchair "Portal," because it's literally pushed me through into a new way of being, into new dimensions and into a new level of consciousness.

And I got this picture, and I thought, "This picture is going to live within his consciousness for his entire life.

We need to increase the consciousness.

But we've been much more reticent, much slower at recognizing this continuity in cognition, in emotion, in consciousness in other animals.

There have been multitudes of studies with many species over the years that have given us exquisite evidence for thinking and consciousness in other animals, other animals that are quite different than we are in form.

And I hope, and one of my biggest dreams, is that, with our growing awareness about the consciousness of others and our relationship with the rest of the animal world, that we'll give them the respect and protection that they deserve.

I'm going to talk about consciousness.

Why consciousness?

So consciousness is number one.

But the thing that struck me is, one guy said in exasperation, a very famous neurobiologist, he said, "Look, in my discipline it's okay to be interested in consciousness, but get tenure first.

I think now you might actually get tenure by working on consciousness.

Okay, now why then is this curious reluctance and curious hostility to consciousness?

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