Consciousness
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Finally, you might ask about the
consciousness
of whole groups, the planet.
Does Canada have its own
consciousness?
Or at a more local level, does an integrated group like the audience at a TED conference, are we right now having a collective TED consciousness, an inner movie for this collective TED group which is distinct from the inner movies of each of our parts?
I'm actually more confident about the first crazy idea, that
consciousness
is fundamental, than about the second one, that it's universal.
I mean, the view raises any number of questions, has any number of challenges, like how do those little bits of
consciousness
add up to the kind of complex
consciousness
we know and love.
If we can answer those questions, then I think we're going to be well on our way to a serious theory of
consciousness.
Understanding
consciousness
is a real key, I think, both to understanding the universe and to understanding ourselves.
He never lost
consciousness.
Our desire to alter our
consciousness
may be as fundamental as our desires for food, companionship and sex.
But, you know, there's a comedian who said, "Well, who's telling me that
consciousness
is so good and so important?
Well, consciousness."
We can hold organizations accountable to developing the social
consciousness
of their employees.
And much like Rachel Carson brought to attention the fact that pesticides were harming human health, "Under the Dome" stamped into the popular
consciousness
that air pollution was leading to one million premature deaths every year in China alone.
But instead, to elevate your level of societal knowledge, your level of societal awareness and societal
consciousness
to then collectively come together, all of us come together, to make sure that we speak out against and we challenge any kind of insanity, any kind of insanity that makes it okay to kill unarmed people, regardless of their ethnicity, regardless of their race, regardless of their diversity makeup.
But are there ways to think about housing trusts or land trusts or a mission-based development that starts to protect some of the space that happens, because when you have 7,500 empty lots in a city, you want something to happen there, but you need entities that are not just interested in the development piece, but entities that are interested in the stabilization piece, and I feel like often the developer piece is really motivated, but the other work of a kind of neighborhood consciousness, that part doesn't live anymore.
MR: Well, Chris, what we're working on is creating a situation where people can create a mind file, and a mind file is the collection of their mannerisms, personality, recollection, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values, everything that we've poured today into Google, into Amazon, into Facebook, and all of this information stored there will be able, in the next couple decades, once software is able to recapitulate consciousness, be able to revive the
consciousness
which is imminent in our mind file.
Social media is I think one of the most extraordinary inventions of our time, and as apps become available that will allow us to out-Siri Siri, better and better, and develop
consciousness
operating systems, everybody in the world, billions of people, will be able to develop mind clones of themselves that will have their own life on the web.
There are tens of millions of people working on writing code that expresses more and more aspects of our human consciousness, and you don't have to be a genius to see that all these threads are going to come together and ultimately create human consciousness, and it's something we'll value.
In 1868, Thomas Huxley wrote, "How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of
consciousness
comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the genie when Aladdin rubbed his lamp."
He wrote: "I think that tastes, odors, colors, and so on reside in
consciousness.
What does this mean for the mystery of
consciousness?
CA: I mean, really what you're proposing is a kind of modern-day Bishop Berkeley interpretation of the world:
consciousness
causes matter, not the other way around.
I am an energy-being connected to the energy all around me through the
consciousness
of my right hemisphere.
We are energy-beings connected to one another through the
consciousness
of our right hemispheres as one human family.
And it was as though my
consciousness
had shifted away from my normal perception of reality, where I'm the person on the machine having the experience, to some esoteric space where I'm witnessing myself having this experience.
Right here, right now, I can step into the
consciousness
of my right hemisphere, where we are.
Or, I can choose to step into the
consciousness
of my left hemisphere, where I become a single individual, a solid.
Wangari said once, "In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called upon to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground."
We have to reach a new level of consciousness, a higher moral ground.
Here every gesture needs intention, is alive with
consciousness.
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