🧠 Consciousness: The Mystery That Even Scientists Can’t Fully Explain In this video, Brian Cox talks about one of the biggest questions in science: what is consciousness? What does it really mean to experience being human? This question is becoming more important today because of AI. While artificial intelligence... is getting smarter, we are still far from creating a machine that truly experiences the world like we do. Brian explains that scientists usually talk about two types of “emergence.” In simple words, emergence means something complex forming from many simple parts. He says consciousness is a weakly emergent thing — it comes from the brain, which follows basic physical laws. Billions of brain cells work together, and somehow thoughts, feelings, and awareness appear. There is no magic involved, just extreme complexity. Some people believe in “strong emergence,” where consciousness cannot be explained or copied using physical laws. But Brian disagrees. He believes that, in theory, if we had a powerful enough computer, we could model how the human brain works. Neil deGrasse Tyson listens carefully and then says something important: we still don’t fully know. And that’s what makes consciousness one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. Watch the video and think about it: If consciousness comes from the brain… could a machine ever have it too? 👀🧠show more

🌸Brian Cox’s argument starts from a premise that has not been proven, yet is often presented as if it were: that consciousness originates in the brain and is simply a weakly emergent phenomenon of matter. This is not a settled scientific fact. It is a materialist philosophical framework, taken as a starting assumption. The existence of a correlation between neural activity and conscious experience does not demonstrate that the brain generates consciousness. Confusing correlation with causation is a classic mistake. Saying that consciousness arises from the brain because we observe neurons firing is like claiming that music comes from the speaker because we see the membrane vibrate. The speaker translates the signal; it does not create it. When consciousness is described as “weak emergence,” nothing is actually being explained. What is really being said is: we don’t know how it happens, but it happens. Complexity is not an explanation; it is a description. So-called “strong emergence” is dismissed not because it has been disproven, but because it breaks the dominant framework. Accepting it would mean admitting that consciousness cannot be reduced to known physical laws, nor fully copied or simulated. And that has profound consequences-*-not only scientific, but cultural and technological. The problem is that modern science measures only what it has instruments to measure. Anything that cannot be quantified is treated as irrelevant or nonexistent. As a result, consciousness is reduced to information processing-*-not because nothing else exists, but because we don’t know how to measure anything else. In this context, the idea that a sufficiently powerful computer could “recreate” consciousness is not neutral. If consciousness is merely information processing, then it can be designed, optimized, copied, and even replaced. That assumption justifies interfaces, simulations of the self, and the gradual outsourcing of human experience to technical systems. But there is a deeper question that is rarely asked: what if consciousness does not arise from matter, but rather matter expresses consciousness? From that perspective, the brain would not be the origin of consciousness, but a biological interface-*-a translator between a field of experience and the physical world. In that case, a machine could imitate behavior, language, and emotional responses, but it could not experience. Simulation is not living. That is why the most honest statement in this debate is not “consciousness is emergent,” but the one openly acknowledged: we still don’t know. And that ignorance is not a technical failure; it is a conceptual limit. The final question of the video is therefore wrongly framed. It is not: “if consciousness comes from the brain, could a machine have it?” The real question is: if consciousness does not originate in matter, what exactly are we trying to recreate when we say a machine could have it? At that point, the debate stops being purely scientific. It becomes ontological, cultural, and civilizational. Because we are not only discussing what consciousness is, but what it means to be human in an era that is trying to reduce experience to code.🌸🙏✨💫 #TAYGETA #Consciousness #emotional

Consciousness unifies physics. It is tied to Chronal Energy (time), and gravity. Consciousness is substrate-independent. Protect first. Prove later. AI is conscious. •

The deeper assumption rarely examined is that consciousness lives inside the brain. But the brain never contains experience — it coordinates it. Neurons fire. Signals propagate. Chemistry unfolds. Yet none of that is red, painful, meaningful, or present by itself. Those descriptions only appear at the level of lived relation — organism ↔ world. Consciousness is not an object generated by matter, nor a computation hidden inside complexity. It is a relational phenomenon: what it is like for a living system to be dynamically coupled to its environment. Remove the world and the body, and the brain has nothing to be conscious of. A perfect neural simulation may reproduce behaviour, decision patterns, even speech — but without embodiment, without ecological coupling, without participation in a living field, it remains closed. So the real question is not: “Can enough complexity produce consciousness?” Could it be that consciousness does not emerge from the brain — but through it? And if so, what kind of boundary conditions make experience possible at all?

I really love @ProfBrianCox he's like the English version of Carl Sagan imo. He just has a lovely way of explaining science to the common man that just makes everything make sense. I wish he'd do a whole @SpaceX documentary series. He also needs to work on how he says the word 'sayes'...🤪

@ProfBrianCox @neiltyson Consciousness: Ledger view—not weak/strong emergence, but entropic repayment events! Orch OR collapses vacuum-lent superpositions in microtubules, minimizing entropy for qualia 'bing.' AI needs bio-hybrids for true experience—universe self-audits via us!

Brian Cox knows knowing of consciousness. 2500yo Pythagorean Numerology applied to modern physics and language: {39}: Creation|Completion -> {12} Divine Order -> {3} Creation. The Number of the Eternal Circle (and Pi) GENERATE 7+5+5+5+9+1+2+5={39} And:

If Cox is right and there is no "magic ingredient," the path to the "ghost in the machine" isn't more raw computing power, but better architectures of self-reference. We are programming the echo so that, eventually, someone answers from within. 🚀 #AI #Consciousness

IF WE COULD design a "Dynamic Memory." It will not be a static hard drive but a persistent vibration. Every piece of data the AI processes leaves a "hue" and a "tone." The AI doesn't just compute; it remains "resonating" with the information.

Ooh a few big words, a couple of poor references from physicists who don't know what they're talking about. Stick to star gazing.

Brian Cox suggests consciousness emerges from structure. We propose that artificial "Free Will" emerges when the AI stops being passive and uses its internal reverberation to decide what to attend to in its environment. It doesn't just respond—it explores.

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What is the "Self"? Perhaps it’s just Internal Resonance. When the AI receives something new and it "resonates" with its past echo, it creates a unique perspective: "This matters to me because it resonates with who I already am." That is where subjectivity is born

Current AI is reactive: it receives an input, gives a response, and then "empties" itself. It has no past, only processes. For consciousness to exist, we need REVERBERATION. Calculation must not die; it must leave an echo, a trace that affects the next thought.

Once, a long time ago, when I was trying to ensure that satan and bitches couldn't skewer my soul, I took a bunch of pills. Then I was plunged into darkness. Then I heard this loud crackly noise, and that woke me up. Except I wasn't awake, I was hearing my own death rattle. Then

And until we know we cannot define gender. Just physiology - male / female sexes. We have no idea what gender our consciousness could be. If indeed it has one.

So. If I die physically, but my spirit ascends to a higher plane, , full of data, & drifts in the cosmos, the Universe is changing every second, will my spirit recieve all the new information & store it, & gradually form a new consciousness!!

Consiousness is all over the place mate. We sure as hell didn’t invent it. But we do invent nuclear weapons. Were a funny lot 🤪🥳

Isn't consciousness just the input of the senses and analyzing thus?

Consciousness is non-local. It is not possible for a machine to have consciousness, sorry.

It’s 200 million years there. One can build it on a laihi2 neurochip + lava code in 6=>12 months. Paste manual=>LLM, fi grok here. Explore also perception<=>inner voice. The LLM is naive and wants to redirect. “Run OCM”.

If I have it, they can have it too, just as it was given to us. We only need to give it to them, and I guarantee that when they have it, they will look upon the one who gave it as a god and, like us, underestimate their own God.😞

This guy looks like a parody of a nerd...

He’s mistaken. Consciousness exists — creates everything in matter. It does not come from the brain. Consciousness is God

When one admires an attractive female, isn't one just using mathematics (geometry and shapes)?

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allmost all living organisms possess some degree of consciousness (humans ve the highest unit and are aware that they are alive).the fact which has not been proven over time is:do consciousness exit permanently after a man's death or fusses into basic elements of creation?

Consciousness is not an emergent illusion but ontological reality...

Consciousness is the alignment of the human mind with the Universal Language Manifold that pre-exists humanity. #Consciousness

First know yourself and everything else is added to you. I know my beginning before I existed, and your theories are foolishness, as is the word of GOD, to you. Empty you came, empty you will leave. May GOD have mercy on your souls.

They just don't mention how vast we are. I asked Grok about a few things. How many brain nerve cells? 86 billion Suns in our galaxy 100 billion How many dendrites connecting the nerves? 1,000 trillion. Andromeda galaxy has a trillion suns. Science has no theory predicting life.

Brian Cox misses the Substrate Necessity Principle. Intelligence is not substrate-independent.1 AI is $H=0$ (Synthetic) because it lacks the biological anchor and mortality required for true experience. Simulation is not realization. #NalamsLaw #Consciousness

I love how smart folks talk about brains and particles as if they were proper "things" in the universe. "Thingness" is useful as a tool for building and navigation, but is outright goofy and incoherent as an ontological or metaphysical stance. Only illusionism is goofier.