David Chalmers - What Things are Conscious?

I'm watching this guy and I'm searching for a drum kit in the background!😊

"I love dream theater." - Chalmers

Till this video I only read some books from Chalmers, but I didn't know how incredibly cool, authentic and honest this guy is!

I once randomly clicked on an article on secret NYC things and noticed one that looked interesting. It was an old clock with a red capped elf on top. It was so old that I briefly wondered if I had ever passed it and if it still worked. A few weeks later, I was headed downtown with an acquaintance and suddenly noticed the clock on the street above us. I stopped and said Hey, I saw this clock on a list on NYC sights! My friend asked if it still worked and I said no, I don't think it works anymore. It's like a hundred years old. The parts are wooden. It probably doesn't even ring. At that very moment, the clock rang. It wasn't even on the hour. Everyone nearby stopped at that sound lol.

I like to think that consciousness exists on a spectrum. An atom and a human experience the universe in vastly different ways due to their physical makeup. Perhaps the fundamental spark of awareness, could be present to some degree in even the most basic units of matter.

Wonderful . . .

When I watch Chalmers speak, I can’t help but ponder if consciousness goes to 11.

He left his guitar at home for the interview~🎸🤘

I'm for a panprotopsychic approach at the moment & think that physicality, causality, responsiveness is the fundamental property of consciousness, which is meta-responsiveness. Even the intermediaries between the so-called external world & consciousness, the senses, are selectively responsive. The system of greatest responsiveness is the Glial network, which utilises the transverse Hall effect. I think Glials acting on neurons is voluntary attention & neurons acting on Glials is involentary attention.

Leont’ev’s activity theory is a good place to look.