Comments by "" (@HigherPlanes) on "Дэвид Чалмерс: Как объяснить сознание?" video.

  1. Consciousness cannot be seen, imagined or conceptualized, but it is the only thing that is real, and without it nothing could be conceptualized or imagined.
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  2.  @jeffforsythe9514  Don't get caught up with labels. I think about the view or theory that the self (or the mind) is all that can be known to exist. Consciousness is really just an awareness of now; what is clear, present and self-evident. So therefore, this frame of reference doesn't really require a label. The fact that it has been labeled is indicative of another illusionary device aimed at aligning the awareness of now to an inventory of fragmentation. Likely to instill and harbor mistrust in the evidence of what one knows to be for sure, in favor of faith or belief in some external factor that is in fact the source of reality. This is no different the belief of a God.
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  3.  @jeffforsythe9514  yeah, that’s it
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  4. Terence McKenna IMO offered the best advice if we ever want to get serious about understanding consciousness: "You see, culture is something that we wear like clothes. We are very much at ease by culture. Our mind is very much at ease by culture. And we gather the language of a given culture around us. Culture is the mind unperturbed. When a shaman goes into the wilderness, and through ordeal, or yogic practice, or breath control, or through the taking of a psychedelic substance perturbs the mind, then we see what the mind is like naked. Undressed by the clothing of language and convention. That's why there will never be a serious discussion of UFOs or consciousness itself until we leave the utterly culture-bound, provincial and hick-like attitude that science has hoisted on us about perturbing the mind. Without the use of psychedelic substances understanding the UFO dilemma is going to be as thankless a task as attempting to understand the nature of the universe without availing yourself with the use of a telescope. It is simply tying our hands behind our backs." ~Terence McKenna
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