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Re:Is Consciousness Everywhere? by kharak on Thursday March 18, 2021 @03:12PM (#26506384)
Is there a good podcast or Youtube video for starters? Highly sceptic of the idea and therefore intrigued.
Re:Is Consciousness Everywhere? by forgotmypw17 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:36PM (#26509718)
As mentioned, I've not found a good accessible podcast or YouTube video on the matter, so maybe that means it's up to me to make one. It's not my forte, so I don't know when that will happen.

However, here's an experimental method you may find helpful in your quest for knowledge: Find a creature, any creature, who appears in your life somehow... a cat, a dog, a worm, a rat, an insect, anyone you notice.

Rack your brain as hard as you can until you begin to see some semblance of feelings and desires in them, as well as a way in which you can help them achieve it. Now, go ahead and do that thing, and do your best to ensure that it works out.

When you're done, start paying attention to what happens to you in your daily course of existence. If you're into mindfulness meditation, here is where you apply that.

If you like, please return here and report your results, I'd love to hear from you! If the thread is already closed, you can find a way to contact me via my profile.

Re:Is Consciousness Everywhere? by anoonmoose on Thursday March 18, 2021 @04:17PM (#26507116)
You can start with the last time Radin's work was savaged in the comments of an HN article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26066233

Re:Is Consciousness Everywhere? by forgotmypw17 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @04:24PM (#26507168)
first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win :)
Re:Is Consciousness Everywhere? by anoonmoose on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:59AM (#26512757)
not everyone who gets ignored, laughed at, or attacked ends up winning

sometimes they just end up ignored and/or laughed at

Re:Is Consciousness Everywhere? by forgotmypw17 on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:47AM (#26513946)
FWIW, I try not to argue anything I have not personally experienced with my own senses... Thank you for interacting with me.
Re:Is Consciousness Everywhere? by forgotmypw17 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @03:47PM (#26506760)
not that i am aware of, sorry.