Consciousness, a Quantum Physics Perspective

“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” – Niels Bohr, a Danish Physicist

Talk starts at 7:25

I  dropped from a MS program top most US university  after booking tickets to US partly due to inner call, went on to study at a top indian university where similar stuff was core part of curriculum. I made it core of my values, but belief in these values (money and success is not everything , altruism till infinity is the one thing to live for) was always swayed during tougher times. Heartening to see likes of stanford atleast partly considering these values and ideals.. 

7:20 - just putting this timestamp here for easier access each time i watch/listen to it the next time ☺️🤓

"Anybody old enough to remember that book?" Right there with you, brother.

Useful descriptions of meditation, samadhi and enlightenment. Thanks John!

I love this guy... I've known about TM for quite a few years, but I only discovered John Hagelin's lectures over the past few days, and I am very impressed with his lucidity, energy, and fundamental knowledge of both reality and the-self (one and the same from a certain point of view).

the idea that consciousness exists at the smallest, most fundamental, reduced level of physics is quite an assumption. It is just as likely to be an emergent property only visible at the systems level, i.e. a property the comes from the connections between parts of the brain. For instance, you wouldn't say Microsoft Word truly 'exists' at the level of a computer's hardware, since it appears the same whether on a mac or pc, but that it emerges from computer code as a higher level, abstract idea.

One of the best lectures I have seen on youtube.

I believe that when we die, only the perspective dies but not the consciousness, that is permanent in this universe until its death.

this talk itself is simply transcending. Thank you so much for that, John Hagelin.

Thank you for an almost poetic lecture...piecing everything thing together: physics, neuroscience, and consciousness.

Im not sure the video title matches the content.

What is the spacing between strings in 3-D space?

Any concepts or ideas about Synesthesia actually being a basic level of perceiving in Samadhi ?

Unbelievable all the negative comments below, you obviously don't know anything about the systems of eastern philosophy (phenomenological description of consciousness). And are so limited to an exclusive view from a western physics perspective. Hagelin is the ONLY Serious Field Theorist who knows its ancient philosophy, east and west will synthesize in the unified theory, the conceptual ontological framework of ancient scriptures is helpful. They talk about the same thing but using different words and ways of describing.

This is the one of the Best lectures I have attended..

From Dr. Max Planck, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered quantum theory: "I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."-The Observer (25 January 1931)

May I know the reference of 5 elements linked with 5 types of spins??

what's the link with quantum physics bro