Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness - Annaka Harris - #927
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What do you think is the most unsettling idea about consciousness that keeps you up at night? Hmm, I wouldn't call it unsettling. Um, I would call it exciting and mysterious and um I'm I'm a bit obsessed um thinking about how it is that all of this non-conscious matter in the universe, this this universe that is apparently made of all this non-conscious matter, in some instances gets configured in such a way that there's an experience of being that matter from the inside and how that process takes place, how it could be Let me go back what what it um so what it's like actually to jump on that spectrum.
So clearly there's a range of conscious experiences that a living being or system can have. Um, some very, very minimal experiences. Maybe, you know, if uh snails are conscious, there's very minimal experience of being a snail, maybe pressure, um, a sense of heat and cold, maybe some very a rudimentary experience of hunger, um, a desire to move toward food, that, that type of thing, then all the way up to to human beings and all the things that we experience. But the the question for me and the thing that that does keep me up at night um is what is that transition?
from no consciousness to consciousness. And how is that anything but a completely unexplained mystery? There doesn't seem to be anything. I've worked with neuroscientists for more than 20 years now and studied the science of consciousness and, you know, we we have not made any progress in the sciences in in understanding how consciousness comes to be. That was that was a long answer to your question.
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