{"id":127709,"date":"2021-09-15T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/jaron-lanier-is-consciousness-an-ultimate-fact"},"modified":"2021-09-15T16:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T23:24:21","slug":"jaron-lanier-is-consciousness-an-ultimate-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/jaron-lanier-is-consciousness-an-ultimate-fact","title":{"rendered":"Jaron Lanier \u2014 Is Consciousness an Ultimate Fact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KNb96Z8eJFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Is there something special about consciousness? Can our inner subjective experience\u2014the sight of purple, smell of cheese, sound of Bach\u2014ever be explained in purely physical terms? Even in principle? Most scientists see consciousness as a science problem to solve. Some philosophers claim that consciousness can never be explained in terms of current science.<\/p>\n<p>Free access to Closer to Truth\u2019s library of 5,000 videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/376lkKN\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/376lkKN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch more interviews on consciousness: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Ce962v\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Ce962v<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, best known for popularizing the term virtual reality (VR).<\/p>\n<p>Register for free at <a href=\"http:\/\/CTT.com\">CTT.com<\/a> for subscriber-only exclusives: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GXmFsP\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GXmFsP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Closer to Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, presents the world\u2019s greatest thinkers exploring humanity\u2019s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/jaron-lanier-is-consciousness-an-ultimate-fact\">Continue reading \u201cJaron Lanier \u2014 Is Consciousness an Ultimate Fact?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there something special about consciousness? Can our inner subjective experience\u2014the sight of purple, smell of cheese, sound of Bach\u2014ever be explained in purely physical terms? Even in principle? Most scientists see consciousness as a science problem to solve. Some philosophers claim that consciousness can never be explained in terms of current science. Free access [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}