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Sam Parnia - What is Consciousness?

2021-08-22 Education
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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers. To begin, we must define and describe consciousness. What to include in a complete definition and description of consciousness? Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Watch more interviews on understanding consciousness: https://bit.ly/3gjZfA1 Sam Parnia is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

Top Comments (10)

@l.ronhubbard5445 2021-08-22

This question has baffled the most brilliant of minds for thousands of years, yet every person who leaves a comment on a CTT video somehow has the answer!

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@KL-mk1yn 2021-08-23

Fascinating topic. Love the discussion.

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@Wayzer1er 2021-10-08

thank you for the work you are doing Sam Parnia!

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@allan6554 2021-08-25

Very interesting topics and questions on this channel. Fine with a skilled researcher, Sam Parnia, who has results, so there is something to relate to. From NDE, cardiac arrest, we know that people see and hear what is going on during the operation, but it is not possible for the patient to communicate with those who operate while they are clinically dead. Another factor several patients report, during clinical death, is that they also record what the surgical team thinks. Consciousness, during clinical death, is in a way both limited, but also very extended to something we cannot explain.

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@spiralsun1 2021-10-02

Yes, perfect analogy. We are beginning to lift the curtain. I am already there. That’s where I live. It’s why I don’t fit in anywhere currently. I am here to make a world where I fit in. Who am I? I am the future. ❤️‍🔥♾

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@alvingalang5106 2021-08-24

Either dualism or our brain is so damn sophisticated that it can contain consciousness in it. Both end are the reason to be grateful to be who are.

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@thefifthportal8294 2021-08-22

A great guest! Please bring him back for more conversation.

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@skipsroxooo 2025-07-04

One of the absolute best interviewees I’ve seen on your channel. Extremely articulate and quite fascinating.

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@svMazy 2022-09-08

The television comparison blew my mind

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@James-ll3jb 2025-11-06

Cool quartz collection!

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