We could potentially realise that consciousness extends beyond brains.
— Susan Schneider“My advice to young players today is really simple, you have to be the best you can on the pitch, but also to educate yourself, show an interest in the world, and not let football restrict you. The way football is going, it will become more tactical, more strategic and so the more you open your brain, the better you will be.”— Vincent Kompany
Manchester City Captain & Belgian Football Legend
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There's no science I've seen that's publicly accessible indicating these systems are conscious, but there's good science to indicate that they emulate us, because they're trained on our data.
— Susan SchneiderIf you want to say consciousness emerges, it has to emerge from something. You can't get apples from oranges.
— Susan SchneiderIt's as if AI has become a laboratory for understanding the nature of the mind.
— Susan SchneiderThe same GPT, say 6.1 or whatever the latest model is, could be conscious when it's run on one kind of system and not conscious on another.
— Susan SchneiderA program or a model is an abstract entity, like an equation. Those are not the things that are conscious.
— Susan SchneiderAnyone who takes the DMT space seriously is forced to live a kind of parallel life. You slip back into 'normal life mode' and almost have to ignore the implications of what you saw. It shows you that this tawdry, flimsy domain we think is foundational to reality is actually nothing more than a theatre screen.
— Andrew GallimoreWe assumed matter was fundamental when we probably should have prioritised consciousness. If we viewed consciousness as the prima materia of reality itself, I think we'd know a lot more about these intelligences and hidden agents than we do today, had we not gone down that strict materialist path all those years ago.
— Andrew GallimoreDMT forces you to confront the fact that we know almost nothing about the true nature of reality. Whatever image you have of what's real or possible is obliterated in an instant. You're faced with a world that isn't just strange, but so utterly incomprehensible that it transcends imagination. It's a place that shouldn't exist within our consensus reality, yet there it is—undeniable.
— Andrew GallimoreWhen you start questioning and be mindfully aware of your thoughts, you realise that you are an observer of your thoughts, not the originator. You can then extend that observer experience to emotions, sensations, perceptual experience and every aspect of mental space.
— Deepak ChopraWellness Entrepreneur & Author Promoting Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality