Have you even subscribed to TEDx Talks? I ask because I have people who claim to love what I do, yet they've never so much as clicked a button to help me.
So basically our consciousness isn't contained in our body rather our body is contained in our consciousness for a time being ! Welcome back spirituality, some of us have missed you!
I'm lay-studying ancient mystic philosophers, and you're right. Literally, ancient schools of spiritual thought from the East and the West have been preaching that the consciousness is not contained in the body ("spirit") and that our consciousness creates the universe around us. Scientists laughed at this idea and called it superstition for a good 50 years, then quantum mechanics burst on the scene with that famous light beam test, that found out observing an object affects its behavior, ergo consciousness affects reality.
@@laela6289 that's not what quantum mechanics says. To directly look at something you have to point it with light, light is energy, give an atom energy and you will affect his state
That is awesome. My wife has occipital neuralgia. If that experiment could be conducted so she could connect with an avatar body then her mind might be able to reduce the pain she experiences when her head is touched.
Thanks, very interesting video. I recommend the book 'Seeing Myself' by Susan Blackmore, about the neuroscience of 'OOBs and NDEs - without dismissing the profound nature of these experiences
Lmao Susan is a very very biased researcher and does not look into those OBE cases that have been proved to be objective, she just tries to prove that OOBES are hallucinations, her books are absolutely BS
One has to experience an OBE to truly appreciate what an OBE is and what it is telling you. Without experiencing, all one has is theory. I enjoy peoples explanations of what an OBE is..without them actually experiencing one themselves. For me they are a natural phenomenon..if they weren't, we would not be having them. Many so called experts believe that if you cant measure it..it just cant be real. That is..until they can be measured. It reminds my of mystics for hundreds of years, talked about the human aura, but scientists would not accept it as fact until they actually proved it. Then it was 'we discovered' lol..an energy field that surrounds the human body. They would not call it a human aura. All they had to do was to look up at stained glass windows on churches at the saints with golden plates around their heads. What did they think they were..some kind of fashionable head gear ? And it would have been free. But no...scientists had to 'discover' it. Lol. Seems nothing can be accepted unless scientists 'discover' it. 😉😜😇😇😇😇
Yessir - Monroes work was truly grounbreaking and his Gateway Experience was the only way I've been able to project, until I discovered I could do it without HS.
@@HDvids101 its not semantics to me. OBE's are about the 'soul' leaving the body. It implies things like a belief that the mind can exist apart from the body, like in an afterlife. Lucid dreaming is having a conscious experience while the mind is disconnected from the 5 senses, but still 'within' the body and not existing apart from it. Thats different, dont you think?
Also I completely agree with the conclusion of this presentation. I'm actually planning to go into the video game design world because of all the potentials virtual reality has for entertainment. I really can't wait to see the day where video games evolve into full virtual reality experiences that goes beyond sight and sound to fully include touch, smell, and even taste!
@@elipaswater3997 graphics programming is an incredibly hard path even in comparison to other programming routes. It also usually isn't the best paying although if you get into a niche, like VR it can be. Homie maybe didn't do it.
I think if they did a virtual reality test where a person was wired with sensors over his entire body (much like those suits used to record movement in video games or 3d animation) and wore a helmet or goggles which put the subject in a virtual realty where he is two feet smaller or two feet taller, after interacting with various familiar objects, upon coming out of the virtual world, the subject would feel as though he had gained or lost height. Further proof that our depiction of our body and self is an illusion that could be altered with subtle changes in our cognitive recognition.
at this moment (2018) there are many games which as you describe can give you a similar experience as you suggested,the virtual reality has made an advance with the interaction of a person and their avatars,but it still needs lots of development for a complete experience,we already have the goggles in that part,anyways i think right now its a good time to start those kind of experiments with the advancement that has been done (and maybe they started and i don't had any idea about it ^^) interesting suggestion bro
I have had many OBEs in my life as a teenager and less later. There are both visual and audio components too these experiences, with the visual being the most significant for me. Even so the tactile sensation tends to be first. I considered them to be like dreams, except the clarity was that of a lucid dream with more ordinary surroundings. When I was a teenager I mastered the technique of inducing them by waking up and going back to bed late night, sort of falling asleep while barely conscious. The visual experience at that age was indistinguishable from real life; that is, I would not be able to tell if it was real life or not except for various tests (such as reading writing, turning away, and seeing if it changes). I'm 45 now, and the visual sequence tends to break up more now and is not quite as life like. Supplementation of fish oil and exercise tend to make the visual better, but it is definitely not perfect like when I was a teenager. Sometimes there are audio additions in my case too. I could cause the audio to start by willing an audio device or going to in my house (if that is where I was) in the OBE where there was a stereo. Turning it on might start music of a very strange variety, often linked with very strong emotions. The emotions would feed into the music and the music change with mine. This kind of feedback could produce intensely emotional music. If I started feeling frightened, for example, the music would take on ominous sounds, often alien-like sounds that I had not heard in real life. It was the most odd thing! Another thing I did was turn on a computer in the OBE. In this case sometimes the screen would not turn on, but when it did, there were amazing graphics (well for the mid-80s - probably nothing as amazing as today's real-life graphics). It seemed to me at the time that this avenue of exploration was also linked to emotions typical of an introverted, lonely man. Further nothing of this sort has been duplicated in my life since then, which might be for the best. I can see it being extremely counter-productive if such a state where easy to enter, and since it didn't hold any particular spiritual significance to me as I'm agnostic and the OBE did not reliably reveal unknown real-world information (my test of authenticity), I'm not sure there was a lot of use other than simple entertainment. It was cool, though.
+Roger Hofer Hello Roger, thank you for sharing your experience. For my the big question here would be this - were you able to do some experiment to verify that you are not dreaming? Meaning that somebody put some paper with a word or letter somewhere and while on OBE you were able to read that and thus verify that you are indeed floating in the real world ? :)
+Roger Hofer I find that my lucid dreaming/OBE onsets are far more common when I change my life or experience/learn new things. My mind has been a bit stagnant since 2012 with my daily routine being just about the same, and all I've had is the odd "I'm awake, I can't open my eyes, fear is taking over.."-crap that I discard immediately. Until two days ago, right after I made my mind up about moving - and there it was! Didn't even notice it happening like I normally would, I had to "wake up" three times before I realized I was still asleep. I have never controlled this, it's just been with me forever. And aside from being there far too often as a kid (scared me out of my mind for years), the only time I experienced it almost daily was right after I started playing the piano or when travelling a lot. Perhaps you could try something completely new? How's your diet? Do you have a high intake of fluoride? Do you still feel inquisitive?
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I had an out of body experienc when i was 17 years old. I had a document from my brother who was in the Belgium army parra commandos. The document said you have to lay down on your back... breath in 3 sec, hold 3 sec, breath out 3 sec and hold 3 sec again. Keep continuing that and clear your mind while trying to see with eyes closed. I did that for a while. And suddenly i feal a vibration going trough my body. On the right sight of my head just behind my ear i heard a very loud and hard wisseling sound. From that moment the first thought i had was im gonna die. I started flying out of my body trough a sord of tunnel and finaly flying over land. The next thing i felt was that my body was far away and i was still thinking i would die. I felt that my body was breathing on its own like on auto pilot. But the weird thing was ... i was breathing trough my hips. After is i even had bleu lines where my pants was on my hips. I came on a place and i saw snow like on a tv that dosnt find a post. Suddenly everything clears out and i saw a white building. 1 floor high. The only thing i saw inside was that everything was made of a very reflectif grey metal. It was like everything was made of molten mettal. A modern looking table and seats next to it. They looked like drops of mettal but fallen in a way you could sit on it. From the moment i tried to look where i was or if i could see the sun or moon i flashed back into my body. I rushed to my padrents and told them the story. After it i could not enter my room for ours. It was like i was traumatised and i could feel a very weird energy in my room. Ive bin wrighting it all down in a book for my children.
@@leemansuleiman5907 No. 😏 I feel like, im not puting enough energy in to it. Ive read about suggestions like keeping a journal on your dreams. Going to bed, and waking up at a certain times… Im not doing any of that. 😏 But im so interested. What are your experiences?
I came here because my experiences on Out of body travel made me Awake&Aware! The portal to this higher realms, dimensions, is within us. it is the seat of the soul, also known as pineal gland, third eye. once you meditated in your dreams and focus your Consiousness in the middle of the eyes, it will open up a like spiral wormhole tunnel and your Consiousness will travel through it, in the speed of light and you will see how vast our universe really is and know that we are all multi-dimensional energy light beings.
My grandfather got his fingers cut off in a hay baler years ago but b4 he passed on he used to talk about how he could still feel them .In the winter time he's always talk about them being so cold I always thought they probably buried them that's why he could feel the tempetures on them .
He says that the self emerge, when you have a sense of the body (that is, a sense of what is part of the body and what is not, an outside vs. inside). This is what Damasio conclude after reviewing the neuroscientific evidence of consciousness in his book "self comes to mind". Thus, it seems to be the case, that the self is created once there is an image/representation of body vs. not body in the brain. This image or representation in the brain is a perception, which can be manipulated, which he talks about by presenting several different experiments.
prygler Amazing! in 500 years from now, maybe we can create a reality like this that we live in. That makes me wounder - who created THIS REALITY? One day we can create it "with taste, smell, touch" etc. We are CREATORS, and something intelligent created us. And after us, someone else will create another reality.
Krillep There is no evidence to say, that something intelligent created us. What we do know is, that we are a consequence of the biological evolution on earth. Surely, we (humans) are a kind of intelligent creators, because we can create life, technologies and maybe even conscious robots/computers someday. There is nothing magical or divine in this.
prygler If you don't see the magical in being alive and all around you, you don't have your eyes open. Look at your body, the universe, fibbonacci numbers. Everything is incredible, and we still haven't found out anything yet.
Well I saw myself leave my body whenever I was sleep I got up walked in the hallway for some strange reason my body knew I was waking up so I walked backwards back into my body that was in the bed it was amazing because I saw everything but something about that experience made me feel like death isn't what we expect because my soul left my body and came back to deliver that message to me that it wasn't my time to go because I have a purpose in this world
our body is just a tool , we can live without it , we don't know how yet , but some people can, this is may be shocks you but that is true, our consciousness is outside the body ..
@@marionow6227 When you listen to the radio, do you assume that the people talking through the radio live inside of it? If you were to take the radio apart, would small people be in there? No, of course not. The radio is picking up a signal that is coming from somewhere else, the radio is just there so that we may hear it. Its a reciver. THAT is consciousness. Our brains are simply a radio receiver, allowing us to talk/feel/taste this plane of existence. But if you cut open the brain, we are not in there. It is just a filter that our souls use. Our bodies are vehicles, our brain is the wheel, but WE are the drivers.
I think Descartes got it wrong. Foremost I am and then I think. Thought has to learn ways to silence itself and then the I am ness shines forth as the primordial phenomenon prior to all thought.
+Anni Benni: The Hindu philosopher/mystic Adi Shankhara actually came up with the "Cogito, ergo sum" idea (in Sanskrit, not Latin!) well before Descartes, but took it in an entirely different direction, within Advaita Vedanta. It's an interesting topic for East/West comparative philosophy, IMHO, but I've only come across a couple of references to it that were pretty scant. And while I enjoy reading about astral projection, Robert Monroe, etc., I am quite fascinated by the work (and it's implications) of the scientist in this TedTalk - especially as an amputee.
Anni: I agree. Descartes thinks, therefore he is. If he doesn't think I am, am I not? More, It is a chicken and egg question. Can't have one without the other.
May I recommend an episode of 'Red Dwarf' - "Better Than Life". Try to avoid reading about it first, so it arrives brand new. Be warned - you may become a fan of this alternate thinking. If so, the very first episode explains a lot. Another episode that comes to mind is "The Despair Squid". Brilliant, long-running comedy with a national following. Keep questioning the nature of reality.
I'm sorry, I'm obviously not following properly - how does everything that was mentioned relate to OBE experience? In each of these experiments, there was a corresponding equipment that would allow us to achieve the impression similar to that of OBE. Ok, I get that part. But what happens when we have real life OBE? We don't have any instruments attached, so what is the thing that allows us to watch ourselves from an out of the body perspective? Am I the only one who doesn't quite get the correlation?
Without your consciousness, nothing exists. Consciousness is always fundamental. Isn't this obvious if you really think about it? Tell me how I'm wrong.
You visit other bodies while you sleep. These visits match your current mindset and will play out in that body later in time. Sometimes it’s yourself in the future, sometimes you pass a mirror s as bd realize you’re in a different body, but feel like “you”. You have no history of that other person you occupy. No date of birth, family history, schooling and job identity.
Uhh, it still brings back that age old philosophical question. How do we know we are not already in an out-of-body experience and our real self is somewhere else? If we do it again, then this is the second level down. Seen that movie Inception? It's like that except this is not dream.
Lucid dreaming is awesome. I'm really sad it happens to me once in two or three weeks, but when it happens, It is really a separate reality. Have you ever examined people's face in a dream? I'm baffled how distinct faces are! I had a dream where I was going through a city and every face was different. I just dont know how the brain comes up with such details at realtime.
This is a sophisticated presentation of a phenomenon that is already well-known. It is called the "Mirror Gene". Guys, have you ever watched a video where somebody gets whacked in the crotch and you can feel is pain? Or, have you ever watched a movie where somebody finally overcomes their challenges and you get a lump in your throat? Nicely done, though. The brain is simply the car; but the mind is the driver. These are smart people but studying the brain is like studying what's under the hood of a fabulous car, but not knowing anything about who is going to drive it. The driver is the individual mind. constantly jockeying for position on a crowded highway.
Mirror neurons, you mean? Mirror gene refers to a dysfunction, when somebody has unvoluntary mirror movements on the opposite side of the body. A gene, that goes with it, has been found, and called mirror gene. Mirror neurons, then again, refers to a normal state of brains. They are the basis of empathy, and also learning by looking. That´s what I reckon you mean, with the movie example. But, no, this TEDTalk is not about mirror neurons; this is about body perception, self-consciousness and the homonculus in the brain etc.
3:52 _Empathy demonstration?_Understanding and experiences of "sensations; meanwhile projection of one's cognitive sensory with anticipatory reaction. An expected reaction from your accessing your memory files. Memory of feelings projected instinctively consciously. So it can be physically located within your brain where it processes this? and because its physically there, the processing cognitive hardware can be put on prosthetic devices to project our cognitive brain consciousness elements as continual extension of our physical self? And other ways, just as the Bruce Willis movie, Surrogates? Imagine that. Hackers paradise. I be meddlin with your consciousness, deviously.
?? Was he actually proposing that they can produce, at will, the out-of-body experience through electrically stimulating a specific area of the brain?? THIS IS HUGE. Puzzled on why this was barley covered though??
Intetesting Ted talk...I like the idea of the medical treatment ideas, the gaming idea is quite unique, but.... but...a lot of assumptions here that are packaged nicely as fact... For example, What if that part of the brain is linked at a quantum level? According to quantum mechanics this is possible. After all at the quantum level particles can literally tunnel through a wall, for physical objects are nothing to them. Therefore if that part of your brain is linked at Quantum level to what you observe, technically you could project yourself somewhere else in space-time, it could be argued from the quantum level that your Consciousness really does leave your brain and you really are looking back at yourself. So scientifically this is possible... Thank you Niels Bohr!! Quantum mechanics is not really conducive to traditional logic and observation, particles have been observed to exist in more than one place at the same time. Photosynthesis, how a star generates nuclear fuel, how a bird navigates the poles, a tadpole turning into a frog, and your perception of smell when it comes to hazelnuts vs cyanide, all these things are the result of quantum mechanics, particles tunneling from one point in space-time to another as waves in space-time, to an extent, it is though they are already there, and perhaps always have been, or perhaps particles are much larger than our primitive bodies are able to perceive. After all remember humans can only see in 4 spectrums of light, there are at least 16 that we know of(the mantis shrimp can see in 16). You can't see gamma rays, or infrared, or ultraviolet, or x-rays, or Wi-Fi signals, or radio waves, or microwaves, or electromagnetic radiation, or even simple sound waves, and especially not the effect that motion has on time displacement. The cognitive perspective of man is incredibly limited. To base a scientific Proclamation on the razor's edge of Truth, is wishful thinking at best, and dangerous at worst. The grand fallacy of man is to believe that they can explain everything and have all the answers, such hubris is why we build monuments of grandeur to ourselves all over the planet. It quite bothers me when I see that kind of Pious attitude present within the academic field of scientific research. They would go a lot further with a healthy bit of humility. Yes keep it multidisciplinary, but don't get so cocky With your confidence. Other studies have show we still know so little about the brain, heck he never even mentioned how the Flora in your gut has a huge influence on your brains decision making process. I found the Title to be quite misleading.
Everytime I smoke dmt, I take what feels like my last breath, and then I leave my body. It all opens up. And I always sorta freak out about what if I can't get back to being contained. Makes the beauty of the visuals not pretty.
I've seen that "fake hand" experiment before but it was badly performed here, the third guy came running so violently and hit the table so hard that the neutral observer can get the impression that the asian dude probably got scared of the roughness of the third guy rather than the brain mirroring thing. The actual way it is done is that the hammering can be actually performed by the second guy, the same one that's stroking with the brushes so you won't blame the surprise the third guy caused, it helps even more hammering before and after the stroking for control so we can be sure of the effect.
Futurama is well on its way. I can see it now, heads in a glass gar with a fully feeling robotic body with inter changing parts that can be changed out like snap on tools. Truly amazing the progress made toward understanding the brain in just the past 10 years. In the next 10 years we should be able to upload our entire life experience after mapping all the neurotransmitters. This will only work however if our entire consciousness is recorded only in the physical brain. I have a good feeling will not be the case. Just as the laws of nature in the universe had to be made prior to its creation which proves there is a under lying consciousness which is and will always be outside of our ability to test. However this under lying consciousness which created all that we know may effect our lives just as much as the physical we perceive to be real. If they can map out this hidden energy that connects our bodies and tap into this so called spirit, who knows the limits to what we may find.
If you can trick a brain into believing it is part of the movie, and download its memories into the movie, then wouldn´t that be the same thing as becoming part of a simulation?
I can visioning something where I touch or smell or look in my mind deeply where on some point I can feel it right like in real life sensation,but sometime it hard to holding to that point where my conciousness come back to my reality instantaneously.. I dont know what it is called,I just do it naturally and because curiousity.
He misuses 'Cogito egro sum'. Descartes' point is that the only thing that he can be sure of is that he excists. In what way or form he does not know, we cannot know. He only knows that he is capable of thinking and a thing that thinks, excists.
I had a triple outter body experience. I could see myself mutple times in front of me. I was jumping into people's bodies. I was flying around hundreds of feet and time was stopped
Why does scientific community tend to (more than) assume that the mind is inside the brain and it's the only thing possible? I think the reverse is possible too.
Très intéressant ! A ce sujet. Il arrive souvent aux guitaristes qui ont des ongles longs, d'avoir en mémoire les anciens ongles qu'ils viennent de couper. Ce qui fait qu'ils "visent mal" en excitant les cordes de leur instrument, durant un certain temps. J'imagine que ça doit donner ce genre d'impression pour les femmes qui portent très souvent des talons ... ? Good video, thanks !
At minute ca 14 he talks about the location of our self (mostly behind our eyes) which he mentioned was possible to change by electrical impulses. I heard that can be changed by mirror arrays as well. Anybody knows how "changing your point of self" is called in professional terms or anything about changing it by mirror arrays?
The assumption is that we are all material, including the "I" of consciousness. This is wrong. The distinction of mind (or soul) and matter still apply because matter can't explain the most basic attributes of being human: freedom, love, creativity, etc. There is no freedom in the materialistic world view because of the determinism of natural laws. But we are not deterministic, we are free creatures.
Walter Peretiatko There is no free, not in this world. This world is the only thing that exists in this world and it's deterministic. Even your psychological phenomenon is not free, there is always a cause. Clear your mind. Whatever you choose to do as a respond to my comment, is deterministic.
Walter Peretiatko, " . . . we are free creatures." Not quite as much as most think that they are. Consider ALL of the influences that are external to us that directly effect us from moment to moment, and because of the Mind/Body connection, effects our thinking. I do agree with you though. Be Well
Facinating subject presented by a restless and nervous man heightened by idiotic camera work. The techno head director was not listening to the content. He degraded the talk by distracting the viewers with zany irrelevant shots through arms, out of focus, extreme close ups to distant shots. Great lighting and set. Sack the incompetant director before he destroys anymore TED talks.
I’m just curiously looking for anyone who has experienced body vibration at a very intense level, I felt like I was floating in and out of my body but still in it I was so scared and unsure but I kept telling myself I love me cause before I slept I had a crystal in my hand and really wanted to meet my spirit guide, I played some meditation music of self love as I’m just starting to learn about crystals. But the feeling I had was so real cause I kept screaming when I was going through the process I kept calling out for my partner I was able to scream out loud on the third time, I remember my eyes being closed but was able to see my room, my partner came running I explained what happened and he didn’t believe me and just said it might have been a nightmare. I’m looking for help to understand this experience.
Hope I can enlighten you a little, what you were experiencing is a known phenomena called Astral Projection. It's basically when your spirit body leaves your physical body. You shouldn't be afraid of it but just be appreciative of it. It can't harm you. And as for the vibrations nobody knows what causes it, however there are theories ranging from receiving spiritual information to DMT being released in the brain. There's also no scientific research done on this. When I first got the vibrations it came to me as the biggest shock on earth, it felt as if I was being electrocuted but without the pain, with the addition of the sound of turbojet engines being blasted into my ears but overtime they will subside. But anyways i recommend looking into it on youtube, reddit or google, just look up astral projection.
What happens if he steps out of the red circle on the floor? He literally will not do it. He never steps out of that damn red circle. Not even a little bit.
You need to look at 'proof' that psi exists at all for a start.If there is you can start to look at subjective experiences from another perspective. P.E.A.R. labs studied psi and came to a conclusion it is over a trillion to one in favour of psi being real.princeton.edu/~pear/ The video on the right gives good info.Yes there are cases which people repeat conversations people have had outside in the hall of the hospital whilst OOB. PM me if you are open and interested and not like most ;-)
Me and my friends been doing this OBE we didn't know dat what it was.. unto I started researching it and now I understand it but it's something way better then OBE.. but I think PUTTING OUR consciousness inside the universal web is a great idea I believe biologically it already has been done on a massive scale without a lot of people permission butthead I always wanted to live inside of No Man's sky the video game or Korbel or Sam or GTA 5 or create my own video game where I can be anything from a piece of paper on the ground to a thought in someone's head that will be a great game and I will call it weird shit
As someone who has had out of body experiences, this talk is not very convincing about it's causes. It doesn't explain things seen out of body that your body cannot see in it's current position. There is more to this story.
I would love to read some good experiments observations made by doctors or similar things, do you know any ? I have read the guy in the video, yes the patient was seeing her self from above , that still can be an illusion cuz the mind makes a good image of the body. I would want to know if they ASKED HER right there while asleep if she could SEE THE DOCTORS BESIDE HER! , maybe there are studies you could show me? would love to, thanx!
I wonder if this would work in a sexual situation as well. I would think that if it did work in sexual situations the porn/sex toy industry would rapidly evolve the tech that can be applied to this. Obviously this information could be used for far greater things than sexual satisfaction such as assisting amputees but I would argue that the sexual industries would provide additional, if not more funding sooner and exponentially faster to further develop this.
chris chung soiled? that doesnt sound like astral sex lol but if what you say is true, i think the _diaper_ industry will grow nore than porn and bedsheets industry combined lol
I'm disappointed. I guess TEDx talks are hit or miss. These observations are easily explained by our outstanding sense of sight and the slowness and relative crudeness of the senses of pressure, pain, and proprioception (muscle/joint positioning in space). We react to being stabbed in the fake arm because we see it before we'd expect to feel it, and long before we cognitively sort out whether that actually is our arm. We react first out of a sense of self-preservation. Shoot a gun near a sleeping dog and it will react, even though it wasn't actually shot. We have known for decades that after we do things that we can't truthfully explain, we give explanations that we truly believe, which neuroscientists call confabulation. Sure, we can be tricked with conflicting sensory input. We've known that since the first case of seasickness. But that says nothing about our true self-awareness. It says we've been tricked by activating self-preservation behaviors and by conflicting sensory input. Not newsworthy, though it is an important perspective for those who design adaptive technologies.
Alexander Torrence He was giving the Atheist equivalent of "God works in mysterious ways." or "Part of God's plan." or "We can never know the will of God."
Please keep TED alive! It is one of the greatest concepts of sharing knowledge I have ever seen.
Yeah when they're being honest that is. Do some research and you'll find out what I'm talking about.
Please explain more John Miller.
Better then western society ideal of schools
Have you even subscribed to TEDx Talks? I ask because I have people who claim to love what I do, yet they've never so much as clicked a button to help me.
you mean the concept of a lecture?
So basically our consciousness isn't contained in our body rather our body is contained in our consciousness for a time being ! Welcome back spirituality, some of us have missed you!
I don't think that's the only conclusion you could draw from this but whatever helps ya sleep, I'm all for it.
I'm lay-studying ancient mystic philosophers, and you're right. Literally, ancient schools of spiritual thought from the East and the West have been preaching that the consciousness is not contained in the body ("spirit") and that our consciousness creates the universe around us. Scientists laughed at this idea and called it superstition for a good 50 years, then quantum mechanics burst on the scene with that famous light beam test, that found out observing an object affects its behavior, ergo consciousness affects reality.
@sabreen syeed, beautifully put. Can you please suggest any book or practice which explains this idea in more detail. Thank you.
@@laela6289 that's not what quantum mechanics says. To directly look at something you have to point it with light, light is energy, give an atom energy and you will affect his state
xD because you say so ?
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I LOVE this kind of EXPERIMENTAL & THEORETICAL combined neuroscience & mathematics research! Please hire me!
Thank you. :)
100% agree with Olaf Blanke: we must start at as LOW a level as possible. Research must start at the microorganism level.
That is awesome. My wife has occipital neuralgia. If that experiment could be conducted so she could connect with an avatar body then her mind might be able to reduce the pain she experiences when her head is touched.
I would have called this "Cognitive Neuroprosthetics: Visual/Tactile Recalibration". Interesting topic for sure.
Best TED I have ever seen
Try TED:meditation,lucid dreaming,fasting,banned.
Thanks, very interesting video. I recommend the book 'Seeing Myself' by Susan Blackmore, about the neuroscience of 'OOBs and NDEs - without dismissing the profound nature of these experiences
Lmao Susan is a very very biased researcher and does not look into those OBE cases that have been proved to be objective, she just tries to prove that OOBES are hallucinations, her books are absolutely BS
OBE is as real as it gets. Thomas Campbell, William Buhlman, The Monroe Institute has been around since the 70's :-)
One has to experience an OBE to truly appreciate what an OBE is and what it is telling you. Without experiencing, all one has is theory. I enjoy peoples explanations of what an OBE is..without them actually experiencing one themselves. For me they are a natural phenomenon..if they weren't, we would not be having them. Many so called experts believe that if you cant measure it..it just cant be real. That is..until they can be measured. It reminds my of mystics for hundreds of years, talked about the human aura, but scientists would not accept it as fact until they actually proved it. Then it was 'we discovered' lol..an energy field that surrounds the human body. They would not call it a human aura. All they had to do was to look up at stained glass windows on churches at the saints with golden plates around their heads. What did they think they were..some kind of fashionable head gear ? And it would have been free. But no...scientists had to 'discover' it. Lol. Seems nothing can be accepted unless scientists 'discover' it. 😉😜😇😇😇😇
Yessir - Monroes work was truly grounbreaking and his Gateway Experience was the only way I've been able to project, until I discovered I could do it without HS.
Except that OBE's dont exist, but are in reality a type of lucid dream. Which doesnt make it less weird, wonderfull, and interesting.
@@marionow6227 Or you could say Lucid dreams don't exist as they are a form of OBE... semantics and doesn't really matter.
@@HDvids101 its not semantics to me. OBE's are about the 'soul' leaving the body. It implies things like a belief that the mind can exist apart from the body, like in an afterlife. Lucid dreaming is having a conscious experience while the mind is disconnected from the 5 senses, but still 'within' the body and not existing apart from it.
Thats different, dont you think?
Induced states of 'Avatar' 13:35, and out of body experiences 14:24
Also I completely agree with the conclusion of this presentation. I'm actually planning to go into the video game design world because of all the potentials virtual reality has for entertainment. I really can't wait to see the day where video games evolve into full virtual reality experiences that goes beyond sight and sound to fully include touch, smell, and even taste!
What happened? Did you ever go into that career ??? I’d be stoked to hear you did!!
" planning to go into the video game design world because of all the potentials virtual reality has for entertainment." Any update ?
@@elipaswater3997 graphics programming is an incredibly hard path even in comparison to other programming routes. It also usually isn't the best paying although if you get into a niche, like VR it can be. Homie maybe didn't do it.
I think if they did a virtual reality test where a person was wired with sensors over his entire body (much like those suits used to record movement in video games or 3d animation) and wore a helmet or goggles which put the subject in a virtual realty where he is two feet smaller or two feet taller, after interacting with various familiar objects, upon coming out of the virtual world, the subject would feel as though he had gained or lost height. Further proof that our depiction of our body and self is an illusion that could be altered with subtle changes in our cognitive recognition.
at this moment (2018) there are many games which as you describe can give you a similar experience as you suggested,the virtual reality has made an advance with the interaction of a person and their avatars,but it still needs lots of development for a complete experience,we already have the goggles in that part,anyways i think right now its a good time to start those kind of experiments with the advancement that has been done (and maybe they started and i don't had any idea about it ^^) interesting suggestion bro
I have had many OBEs in my life as a teenager and less later. There are both visual and audio components too these experiences, with the visual being the most significant for me. Even so the tactile sensation tends to be first. I considered them to be like dreams, except the clarity was that of a lucid dream with more ordinary surroundings.
When I was a teenager I mastered the technique of inducing them by waking up and going back to bed late night, sort of falling asleep while barely conscious. The visual experience at that age was indistinguishable from real life; that is, I would not be able to tell if it was real life or not except for various tests (such as reading writing, turning away, and seeing if it changes). I'm 45 now, and the visual sequence tends to break up more now and is not quite as life like. Supplementation of fish oil and exercise tend to make the visual better, but it is definitely not perfect like when I was a teenager.
Sometimes there are audio additions in my case too. I could cause the audio to start by willing an audio device or going to in my house (if that is where I was) in the OBE where there was a stereo. Turning it on might start music of a very strange variety, often linked with very strong emotions. The emotions would feed into the music and the music change with mine. This kind of feedback could produce intensely emotional music. If I started feeling frightened, for example, the music would take on ominous sounds, often alien-like sounds that I had not heard in real life. It was the most odd thing!
Another thing I did was turn on a computer in the OBE. In this case sometimes the screen would not turn on, but when it did, there were amazing graphics (well for the mid-80s - probably nothing as amazing as today's real-life graphics).
It seemed to me at the time that this avenue of exploration was also linked to emotions typical of an introverted, lonely man. Further nothing of this sort has been duplicated in my life since then, which might be for the best. I can see it being extremely counter-productive if such a state where easy to enter, and since it didn't hold any particular spiritual significance to me as I'm agnostic and the OBE did not reliably reveal unknown real-world information (my test of authenticity), I'm not sure there was a lot of use other than simple entertainment. It was cool, though.
+Roger Hofer Hello Roger, thank you for sharing your experience. For my the big question here would be this - were you able to do some experiment to verify that you are not dreaming? Meaning that somebody put some paper with a word or letter somewhere and while on OBE you were able to read that and thus verify that you are indeed floating in the real world ? :)
+Roger Hofer I find that my lucid dreaming/OBE onsets are far more common when I change my life or experience/learn new things. My mind has been a bit stagnant since 2012 with my daily routine being just about the same, and all I've had is the odd "I'm awake, I can't open my eyes, fear is taking over.."-crap that I discard immediately.
Until two days ago, right after I made my mind up about moving - and there it was!
Didn't even notice it happening like I normally would, I had to "wake up" three times before I realized I was still asleep.
I have never controlled this, it's just been with me forever. And aside from being there far too often as a kid (scared me out of my mind for years), the only time I experienced it almost daily was right after I started playing the piano or when travelling a lot.
Perhaps you could try something completely new? How's your diet? Do you have a high intake of fluoride? Do you still feel inquisitive?
No problem,try:Waking Life,Manifesting the Mind,binaural beats,TED:lucid reaming,meditation,fasting,banned;yoga nidra,lung gom pa,tummo,tulpa,science of lucid dreaming.
The mind is the cause of everything we experience.
Wondering if this phenomenon is why I’m constantly reaching to adjust my glasses when I’m not even wearing them
i think this video explained why i feel naked or incomplete whenever i don't have my phone on me
Didn't take long to realize that the title was clickbait.
I had an out of body experienc when i was 17 years old. I had a document from my brother who was in the Belgium army parra commandos. The document said you have to lay down on your back... breath in 3 sec, hold 3 sec, breath out 3 sec and hold 3 sec again. Keep continuing that and clear your mind while trying to see with eyes closed. I did that for a while. And suddenly i feal a vibration going trough my body. On the right sight of my head just behind my ear i heard a very loud and hard wisseling sound. From that moment the first thought i had was im gonna die. I started flying out of my body trough a sord of tunnel and finaly flying over land. The next thing i felt was that my body was far away and i was still thinking i would die. I felt that my body was breathing on its own like on auto pilot. But the weird thing was ... i was breathing trough my hips. After is i even had bleu lines where my pants was on my hips. I came on a place and i saw snow like on a tv that dosnt find a post. Suddenly everything clears out and i saw a white building. 1 floor high. The only thing i saw inside was that everything was made of a very reflectif grey metal. It was like everything was made of molten mettal. A modern looking table and seats next to it. They looked like drops of mettal but fallen in a way you could sit on it. From the moment i tried to look where i was or if i could see the sun or moon i flashed back into my body. I rushed to my padrents and told them the story. After it i could not enter my room for ours. It was like i was traumatised and i could feel a very weird energy in my room. Ive bin wrighting it all down in a book for my children.
Are you serious ? Ill try that breathing thing tonight xD
@@AzazeIlI Did it work ?
@@leemansuleiman5907
No. 😏
I feel like, im not puting enough energy in to it.
Ive read about suggestions like keeping a journal on your dreams.
Going to bed, and waking up at a certain times… Im not doing any of that. 😏
But im so interested.
What are your experiences?
I came here because my experiences on Out of body travel made me Awake&Aware!
The portal to this higher realms, dimensions, is within us.
it is the seat of the soul, also known as pineal gland, third eye. once you meditated in your dreams and focus your Consiousness in the middle of the eyes, it will open up a like spiral wormhole tunnel and your Consiousness will travel through it, in the speed of light and you will see how vast our universe really is and know that we are all multi-dimensional energy light beings.
I wish I learn this technique & travel
Very good lecture! Especcially the OBE part. cheers.
I will say thank you again after this))))
My grandfather got his fingers cut off in a hay baler years ago but b4 he passed on he used to talk about how he could still feel them .In the winter time he's always talk about them being so cold I always thought they probably buried them that's why he could feel the tempetures on them .
Phantom pain... But his spirit still has them. My grandpa had told me that.
Consciousness has been studied a hell of a lot longer than 3000 years, it goes back to when man first encountered Psychedelics.
even before that to.
He says that the self emerge, when you have a sense of the body (that is, a sense of what is part of the body and what is not, an outside vs. inside). This is what Damasio conclude after reviewing the neuroscientific evidence of consciousness in his book "self comes to mind". Thus, it seems to be the case, that the self is created once there is an image/representation of body vs. not body in the brain. This image or representation in the brain is a perception, which can be manipulated, which he talks about by presenting several different experiments.
prygler Amazing! in 500 years from now, maybe we can create a reality like this that we live in.
That makes me wounder - who created THIS REALITY? One day we can create it "with taste, smell, touch" etc. We are CREATORS, and something intelligent created us. And after us, someone else will create another reality.
Krillep There is no evidence to say, that something intelligent created us. What we do know is, that we are a consequence of the biological evolution on earth. Surely, we (humans) are a kind of intelligent creators, because we can create life, technologies and maybe even conscious robots/computers someday. There is nothing magical or divine in this.
prygler If you don't see the magical in being alive and all around you, you don't have your eyes open. Look at your body, the universe, fibbonacci numbers. Everything is incredible, and we still haven't found out anything yet.
+Krillep I did not say, that life (or being a live) can't be amazing. However, it does not mean, that it is magic.
prygler What do you define as magic? Magic is what goes beyond our limited thinking. We are limited. Magic is just yet what we don't understand.
Well I saw myself leave my body whenever I was sleep I got up walked in the hallway for some strange reason my body knew I was waking up so I walked backwards back into my body that was in the bed it was amazing because I saw everything but something about that experience made me feel like death isn't what we expect because my soul left my body and came back to deliver that message to me that it wasn't my time to go because I have a purpose in this world
our body is just a tool , we can live without it , we don't know how yet , but some people can, this is may be shocks you but that is true, our consciousness is outside the body ..
The body needs the mind and the mind needs the body. They cant function without each other.
I guess. Only after death we may know. Who knows.
@@marionow6227 When you listen to the radio, do you assume that the people talking through the radio live inside of it? If you were to take the radio apart, would small people be in there? No, of course not. The radio is picking up a signal that is coming from somewhere else, the radio is just there so that we may hear it. Its a reciver. THAT is consciousness. Our brains are simply a radio receiver, allowing us to talk/feel/taste this plane of existence. But if you cut open the brain, we are not in there. It is just a filter that our souls use. Our bodies are vehicles, our brain is the wheel, but WE are the drivers.
I think Descartes got it wrong. Foremost I am and then I think. Thought has to learn ways to silence itself and then the I am ness shines forth as the primordial phenomenon prior to all thought.
+Anni Benni: The Hindu philosopher/mystic Adi Shankhara actually came up with the "Cogito, ergo sum" idea (in Sanskrit, not Latin!) well before Descartes, but took it in an entirely different direction, within Advaita Vedanta. It's an interesting topic for East/West comparative philosophy, IMHO, but I've only come across a couple of references to it that were pretty scant.
And while I enjoy reading about astral projection, Robert Monroe, etc., I am quite fascinated by the work (and it's implications) of the scientist in this TedTalk - especially as an amputee.
Anni: I agree. Descartes thinks, therefore he is. If he doesn't think I am, am I not? More, It is a chicken and egg question. Can't have one without the other.
Yeah, shine forth like his fookin forehead
May I recommend an episode of 'Red Dwarf' - "Better Than Life". Try to avoid reading about it first, so it arrives brand new. Be warned - you may become a fan of this alternate thinking. If so, the very first episode explains a lot. Another episode that comes to mind is "The Despair Squid". Brilliant, long-running comedy with a national following. Keep questioning the nature of reality.
Not a very fitting tittle for this talk
Been doing it every weekend =D
We've achieved this already. A VR game called Farpoint will transport you into another world, its pretty incredible.
Consciousness is Singular and Fundamental. It means one Consciousness is observing the entire universe as it's substance.
I was much more impressed with John Searle's TEDx Talk @ CERN
Monks and yogis knew this thousands of years ago.
"Man with the Iron fists" makes a reference to this as well.
Ah yes...but scientists have to 'discover' it. Until then it just can't be real...We discovered...😉
He's not gonna read the comment it was 2 years ago dude 😉
@@MonkeyD.I do. I believe we have always been alive. Many kids report past lives before they become conscious around 2-5
Incredible info! these experiences are extremely eye opening and thrilling. practice with a sleep Hustle and you can see for yourself!
New endeavors 💫
This talk was intentionally titled to give the impression of metaphysics .
I am glad they titled it this way, to draw in philosophers and metaphysicists to think about hard experimental & theoretical physical neuroscience.
I agree. Friggin clickbait.
I'm sorry, I'm obviously not following properly - how does everything that was mentioned relate to OBE experience? In each of these experiments, there was a corresponding equipment that would allow us to achieve the impression similar to that of OBE. Ok, I get that part.
But what happens when we have real life OBE? We don't have any instruments attached, so what is the thing that allows us to watch ourselves from an out of the body perspective? Am I the only one who doesn't quite get the correlation?
Interesting, is like Ghost in the Shell with all its possibilities.
Without your consciousness, nothing exists. Consciousness is always fundamental. Isn't this obvious if you really think about it? Tell me how I'm wrong.
Tell me how you're right? Are you saying when we die we take the "real" world with us? Where do the rest of us live then? Please don't die.
Brilliant- this will be an end to mindless shamanism after all?
Great choice of video game =D Mirror's Edge is fantastic!
You visit other bodies while you sleep. These visits match your current mindset and will play out in that body later in time. Sometimes it’s yourself in the future, sometimes you pass a mirror s as bd realize you’re in a different body, but feel like “you”. You have no history of that other person you occupy. No date of birth, family history, schooling and job identity.
Uhh, it still brings back that age old philosophical question. How do we know we are not already in an out-of-body experience and our real self is somewhere else? If we do it again, then this is the second level down. Seen that movie Inception? It's like that except this is not dream.
Lucid dreaming is awesome. I'm really sad it happens to me once in two or three weeks, but when it happens, It is really a separate reality. Have you ever examined people's face in a dream? I'm baffled how distinct faces are! I had a dream where I was going through a city and every face was different. I just dont know how the brain comes up with such details at realtime.
David
Perhaps you weren't inside your own mind
The brain can do far more than that.
Alot of that philosophy is advanced psychology
Brilliant talk thanks
This is a sophisticated presentation of a phenomenon that is already well-known. It is called the "Mirror Gene". Guys, have you ever watched a video where somebody gets whacked in the crotch and you can feel is pain? Or, have you ever watched a movie where somebody finally overcomes their challenges and you get a lump in your throat? Nicely done, though. The brain is simply the car; but the mind is the driver. These are smart people but studying the brain is like studying what's under the hood of a fabulous car, but not knowing anything about who is going to drive it. The driver is the individual mind. constantly jockeying for position on a crowded highway.
Mirror neurons, you mean?
Mirror gene refers to a dysfunction, when somebody has unvoluntary mirror movements on the opposite side of the body. A gene, that goes with it, has been found, and called mirror gene.
Mirror neurons, then again, refers to a normal state of brains. They are the basis of empathy, and also learning by looking. That´s what I reckon you mean, with the movie example.
But, no, this TEDTalk is not about mirror neurons; this is about body perception, self-consciousness and the homonculus in the brain etc.
You feel the pain because you are empathetic. Nothing to do with 'mirror genes'. Psychopaths don't even flinch.
tamsinthai mirror genes are what produce the emotion "empathy"
Chance Robinson No. They're not. People LEARN empathy. Up until then, savages. Read Lord of The Flies and get a clue.
news.discovery.com/animals/elephants-added-to-list-of-animals-that-show-empathy-140218.htm
3:52 _Empathy demonstration?_Understanding and experiences of "sensations; meanwhile projection of one's cognitive sensory with anticipatory reaction. An expected reaction from your accessing your memory files. Memory of feelings projected instinctively consciously. So it can be physically located within your brain where it processes this? and because its physically there, the processing cognitive hardware can be put on prosthetic devices to project our cognitive brain consciousness elements as continual extension of our physical self? And other ways, just as the Bruce Willis movie, Surrogates? Imagine that. Hackers paradise. I be meddlin with your consciousness, deviously.
Shiva consciousness is you playing out all the people you encounters roles ahead of time. You are essentially encountering “ yourself “.
thanks for the Doctor
?? Was he actually proposing that they can produce, at will, the out-of-body experience through electrically stimulating a specific area of the brain?? THIS IS HUGE. Puzzled on why this was barley covered though??
Intetesting Ted talk...I like the idea of the medical treatment ideas, the gaming idea is quite unique, but.... but...a lot of assumptions here that are packaged nicely as fact... For example, What if that part of the brain is linked at a quantum level? According to quantum mechanics this is possible. After all at the quantum level particles can literally tunnel through a wall, for physical objects are nothing to them. Therefore if that part of your brain is linked at Quantum level to what you observe, technically you could project yourself somewhere else in space-time, it could be argued from the quantum level that your Consciousness really does leave your brain and you really are looking back at yourself. So scientifically this is possible... Thank you Niels Bohr!!
Quantum mechanics is not really conducive to traditional logic and observation, particles have been observed to exist in more than one place at the same time. Photosynthesis, how a star generates nuclear fuel, how a bird navigates the poles, a tadpole turning into a frog, and your perception of smell when it comes to hazelnuts vs cyanide, all these things are the result of quantum mechanics, particles tunneling from one point in space-time to another as waves in space-time, to an extent, it is though they are already there, and perhaps always have been, or perhaps particles are much larger than our primitive bodies are able to perceive.
After all remember humans can only see in 4 spectrums of light, there are at least 16 that we know of(the mantis shrimp can see in 16). You can't see gamma rays, or infrared, or ultraviolet, or x-rays, or Wi-Fi signals, or radio waves, or microwaves, or electromagnetic radiation, or even simple sound waves, and especially not the effect that motion has on time displacement. The cognitive perspective of man is incredibly limited.
To base a scientific Proclamation on the razor's edge of Truth, is wishful thinking at best, and dangerous at worst. The grand fallacy of man is to believe that they can explain everything and have all the answers, such hubris is why we build monuments of grandeur to ourselves all over the planet. It quite bothers me when I see that kind of Pious attitude present within the academic field of scientific research. They would go a lot further with a healthy bit of humility. Yes keep it multidisciplinary, but don't get so cocky With your confidence. Other studies have show we still know so little about the brain, heck he never even mentioned how the Flora in your gut has a huge influence on your brains decision making process. I found the Title to be quite misleading.
Amazing.
Any better guides to OBE? I'm bored enough to try.
*Fun Fact* : This man has never experienced an *OBE* 🧚
People claim youtube is the closest thing to time travel but have never decided the matrix and hyper loop through the astral realm. Human peasants
he remembers where he was told to be born?
It happens in the Matrix all the time.
Yes, they can and have. Go to sites like Nova, New Scientist or Scientific American or National Geographic.
Damn, it's packed in there
Everytime I smoke dmt, I take what feels like my last breath, and then I leave my body. It all opens up. And I always sorta freak out about what if I can't get back to being contained. Makes the beauty of the visuals not pretty.
I've seen that "fake hand" experiment before but it was badly performed here, the third guy came running so violently and hit the table so hard that the neutral observer can get the impression that the asian dude probably got scared of the roughness of the third guy rather than the brain mirroring thing. The actual way it is done is that the hammering can be actually performed by the second guy, the same one that's stroking with the brushes so you won't blame the surprise the third guy caused, it helps even more hammering before and after the stroking for control so we can be sure of the effect.
Futurama is well on its way. I can see it now, heads in a glass gar with a fully feeling robotic body with inter changing parts that can be changed out like snap on tools. Truly amazing the progress made toward understanding the brain in just the past 10 years. In the next 10 years we should be able to upload our entire life experience after mapping all the neurotransmitters. This will only work however if our entire consciousness is recorded only in the physical brain. I have a good feeling will not be the case. Just as the laws of nature in the universe had to be made prior to its creation which proves there is a under lying consciousness which is and will always be outside of our ability to test. However this under lying consciousness which created all that we know may effect our lives just as much as the physical we perceive to be real. If they can map out this hidden energy that connects our bodies and tap into this so called spirit, who knows the limits to what we may find.
If you can trick a brain into believing it is part of the movie, and download its memories into the movie, then wouldn´t that be the same thing as becoming part of a simulation?
The premise is wrong because Descartes didn't say I know, therefore I am. He said I think!
I can visioning something where I touch or smell or look in my mind deeply where on some point I can feel it right like in real life sensation,but sometime it hard to holding to that point where my conciousness come back to my reality instantaneously.. I dont know what it is called,I just do it naturally and because curiousity.
He misuses 'Cogito egro sum'. Descartes' point is that the only thing that he can be sure of is that he excists. In what way or form he does not know, we cannot know. He only knows that he is capable of thinking and a thing that thinks, excists.
Awesome
I had a triple outter body experience. I could see myself mutple times in front of me. I was jumping into people's bodies. I was flying around hundreds of feet and time was stopped
Ghost in a shell
future is now
Do you think scientists could stimulate different parts of the brain to make us feel different things like tastes, smells, and feelings?
Why does scientific community tend to (more than) assume that the mind is inside the brain and it's the only thing possible? I think the reverse is possible too.
Très intéressant !
A ce sujet. Il arrive souvent aux guitaristes qui ont des ongles longs,
d'avoir en mémoire les anciens ongles qu'ils viennent de couper.
Ce qui fait qu'ils "visent mal" en excitant les cordes de leur instrument, durant un certain temps.
J'imagine que ça doit donner ce genre d'impression pour les femmes qui portent très souvent des talons ... ?
Good video, thanks !
The body and the world appears in consciousness bro
At minute ca 14 he talks about the location of our self (mostly behind our eyes) which he mentioned was possible to change by electrical impulses. I heard that can be changed by mirror arrays as well. Anybody knows how "changing your point of self" is called in professional terms or anything about changing it by mirror arrays?
'I think I think ... therefore I am .. I think!
"Of course you are my bright little star, you're miles and miles of files pretty files and now to suit our GREAT COMPUTER, you're magnetic ink!"
The assumption is that we are all material, including the "I" of consciousness. This is wrong. The distinction of mind (or soul) and matter still apply because matter can't explain the most basic attributes of being human: freedom, love, creativity, etc. There is no freedom in the materialistic world view because of the determinism of natural laws. But we are not deterministic, we are free creatures.
As a non-materialist, I can tell you, everything is determined, you just act according to laws.
Walter Peretiatko There is no free, not in this world. This world is the only thing that exists in this world and it's deterministic. Even your psychological phenomenon is not free, there is always a cause. Clear your mind. Whatever you choose to do as a respond to my comment, is deterministic.
Walter Peretiatko,
" . . . we are free creatures."
Not quite as much as most think that they are. Consider ALL of the influences that are external to us that directly effect us from moment to moment, and because of the Mind/Body connection, effects our thinking.
I do agree with you though.
Be Well
The ''i'' is pronoun, a reference point, a word, so yes, it is matter too.
Facinating subject presented by a restless and nervous man heightened by idiotic camera work. The techno head director was not listening to the content. He degraded the talk by distracting the viewers with zany irrelevant shots through arms, out of focus, extreme close ups to distant shots. Great lighting and set. Sack the incompetant director before he destroys anymore TED talks.
Better title: self-awareness, sensory systems and some hypothesis.
hes pacing around as if hed not had the chance to go to the bathroom for a while before this lecture
+Shmannel I have heard this is a common occurrence at these talks. So, you may be more correct than we know.
I’m just curiously looking for anyone who has experienced body vibration at a very intense level, I felt like I was floating in and out of my body but still in it I was so scared and unsure but I kept telling myself I love me cause before I slept I had a crystal in my hand and really wanted to meet my spirit guide, I played some meditation music of self love as I’m just starting to learn about crystals. But the feeling I had was so real cause I kept screaming when I was going through the process I kept calling out for my partner I was able to scream out loud on the third time, I remember my eyes being closed but was able to see my room, my partner came running I explained what happened and he didn’t believe me and just said it might have been a nightmare. I’m looking for help to understand this experience.
Hope I can enlighten you a little, what you were experiencing is a known phenomena called Astral Projection. It's basically when your spirit body leaves your physical body. You shouldn't be afraid of it but just be appreciative of it. It can't harm you. And as for the vibrations nobody knows what causes it, however there are theories ranging from receiving spiritual information to DMT being released in the brain. There's also no scientific research done on this. When I first got the vibrations it came to me as the biggest shock on earth, it felt as if I was being electrocuted but without the pain, with the addition of the sound of turbojet engines being blasted into my ears but overtime they will subside. But anyways i recommend looking into it on youtube, reddit or google, just look up astral projection.
what are the ramifications on Mental Health I wonder?
Why most of the chairs are empty?
What happens if he steps out of the red circle on the floor? He literally will not do it. He never steps out of that damn red circle. Not even a little bit.
He's trying to avoid making loud stepping noises. The red circle is a mat
12:42
The type of "OBE" they describe has nothing to do with OBEs.
Yes That Is Correct
You need to look at 'proof' that psi exists at all for a start.If there is you can start to look at subjective experiences from another perspective. P.E.A.R. labs studied psi and came to a conclusion it is over a trillion to one in favour of psi being real.princeton.edu/~pear/
The video on the right gives good info.Yes there are cases which people repeat conversations people have had outside in the hall of the hospital whilst OOB. PM me if you are open and interested and not like most ;-)
Me and my friends been doing this OBE we didn't know dat what it was.. unto I started researching it and now I understand it but it's something way better then OBE.. but I think PUTTING OUR consciousness inside the universal web is a great idea I believe biologically it already has been done on a massive scale without a lot of people permission butthead I always wanted to live inside of No Man's sky the video game or Korbel or Sam or GTA 5 or create my own video game where I can be anything from a piece of paper on the ground to a thought in someone's head that will be a great game and I will call it weird shit
He is standing on Japan's flag XD
Waaaaaaaaooooooooo😠😠😠😠😠
Only us Amerikan's have the right to stand on another countries flag damn it.
Doy do da fuq
I'm curious why the video switcher elected to omit the 5th slide at 15:00...
The 5th slide is visible at 14:30. I suppose the video switcher just wanted to make you feel like you are in the audience.
He has been watching that Dr Strange hospital scene way too much
This research is already 9 to 10 years old. What is the state of this technology now in 2021?
Une traduction en français ? Merci
It must be a traumatic experience to die in those kind of videogames.
That's what I thought 😂
As someone who has had out of body experiences, this talk is not very convincing about it's causes. It doesn't explain things seen out of body that your body cannot see in it's current position. There is more to this story.
I would love to read some good experiments observations made by doctors or similar things, do you know any ? I have read the guy in the video, yes the patient was seeing her self from above , that still can be an illusion cuz the mind makes a good image of the body. I would want to know if they ASKED HER right there while asleep if she could SEE THE DOCTORS BESIDE HER! , maybe there are studies you could show me? would love to, thanx!
I wonder if this would work in a sexual situation as well. I would think that if it did work in sexual situations the porn/sex toy industry would rapidly evolve the tech that can be applied to this. Obviously this information could be used for far greater things than sexual satisfaction such as assisting amputees but I would argue that the sexual industries would provide additional, if not more funding sooner and exponentially faster to further develop this.
chris chung
soiled? that doesnt sound like astral sex lol but if what you say is true, i think the _diaper_ industry will grow nore than porn and bedsheets industry combined lol
Oculus rift w/gloves + vibrator or fleshtube. xD
why couldn't we just fight avatar wars. The pentagon would spend a fortune!
Just kidding ou pervert
jackchorn well from what I understand porn and military are the two industries that grow tech the fastest
I know right, it turns out every time I have an idea like this, somebody else thought of it too. :/
I'm disappointed. I guess TEDx talks are hit or miss. These observations are easily explained by our outstanding sense of sight and the slowness and relative crudeness of the senses of pressure, pain, and proprioception (muscle/joint positioning in space). We react to being stabbed in the fake arm because we see it before we'd expect to feel it, and long before we cognitively sort out whether that actually is our arm. We react first out of a sense of self-preservation. Shoot a gun near a sleeping dog and it will react, even though it wasn't actually shot. We have known for decades that after we do things that we can't truthfully explain, we give explanations that we truly believe, which neuroscientists call confabulation. Sure, we can be tricked with conflicting sensory input. We've known that since the first case of seasickness. But that says nothing about our true self-awareness. It says we've been tricked by activating self-preservation behaviors and by conflicting sensory input. Not newsworthy, though it is an important perspective for those who design adaptive technologies.
18:45 "WTF was he just talking about?"
Alexander Torrence He was giving the Atheist equivalent of "God works in mysterious ways." or "Part of God's plan." or "We can never know the will of God."