Being Consciousness, Exploring my Brain, and Discovering My World

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as Martin Squibbs joins us. Here is a summary.

By considering my own experiences, thoughts and memories, together with studying neuroscience, I have concluded that I am a physically real human consciousness, here in my physically real brain, surrounded by a world, my world, of memories, all growing in duration.

At their foundation are the memories of the events of my life, that is what I know "about" as a fact, being growing durations of memories of my perceptions, and being virtual in nature.

By recognizing and studying these facts of my past I come to imagine, understand and realize as best I can the truth and nature "of" physical reality beyond my brain.

Given then this region of space occupied by my brain contains my whole world and is the only place within the entire universe that I can actually physically explore, in this talk I will explore this space and this place, and the nature of my world within it.

I'll also share how realizing the nature of my world in this way has changed and deepened my understanding of the nature of physical reality, and the nature of knowledge, of facts, of values and of information.

I'll consider my knowledge of neuroscience, physics and philosophy, and how, in my mind, understanding reality in this way integrates idealism and materialism, unifies physics and resolves many of the current problems within the theories of physics.

Finally, I'll consider how understanding reality in this way has changed my relationship with and attitude towards life, nature and the artificial.

Bio
Martin was born in England and graduated with a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering and Management from Imperial College, London.
His career has been in the semiconductor industry, mostly based in San Jose, California.
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