How Much Do We Actually Know About Consciousness? - Patrick House
November 12, 2022
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as posted by the channelPatrick House is a neuroscientist and writer whose research focuses on free will and how mind-control parasites alter their host's behaviour.
If it wasn't for us experiencing it, the universe would give us no indication that consciousness even exists. The most fundamental part of human experience has many proposed explanations, but just how well-grounded are these, and what are we missing?
Expect to learn why removing parts of the brain change some aspects of the self but not all of them, what it's like for animals who can put half of their brain to sleep at once, how the brain is intimately linked with timekeeping, why almost all explanations of consciousness are unsatisfactory, what the future of brain-research looks like and much more...
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