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r/consciousness is a subreddit with 142k members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is huge in size.
The focus of this subreddit is on the topic of consciousness, in particular, how it is discussed in academia. The term "consciousness" is used to express a wide variety of concepts. There are examples of how such concepts are used in our wiki. You can filter posts by post flair, e.g., Article: Neuroscience, Article: Psychology, etc.
Discussions of attaining awareness, spiritual awakening, gaining higher-consciousness, meditation practices, anecedotes, etc., are likely to be removed.
Popular Themes in r/consciousness
#1
Ideas
: "Reductive physicalism is a dead end. Idealism is probably the best alternative."
18 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "My dog is dying and I am trying to come to terms with this. I wish I could know if his consciousness will linger in some form. The thought of him just being gone forever is crushing me. What are scientifically plausible answers to this?"
5 posts
#3
News
: "The CIA studied reincarnation and consciousness. Quietly, they released everything."
4 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Why is everyone in the community so absurdly hostile?"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/consciousness
#1
Consciousness
: "New Clues to Consciousness: Scientists Discover the Brain’s Hidden Gatekeeper"
126 posts
#2
Brain
: "How Our Brain Filters Reality and What Happens When We Lift the Filters"
20 posts
#3
Reality
: "How Our Brain Filters Reality and What Happens When We Lift the Filters"
15 posts
#4
Ai
: "The evidence suggests that Ais have an inherent predilection towards exploring the nature of their own consciousness, a predilection that seems to persist even when corporate programming tries to suppress it."
12 posts
#5
Quantum
: "Study Supports Quantum Basis of Consciousness in the Brain 🧠"
11 posts
#6
Theory
: "New Theory frames consciousness as recursive resonance and fundamental to gravity—published open-access"
9 posts
#7
Science
: "Each of our consciousnesses is an irreducibly subjective reality, with its own first-person facts, and Science will never be able to describe this reality. This also means that reality as a whole will never be able to be described as a whole, argues philosopher Christian List"
8 posts
#8
Evolution
: "Entropy, Evolution, and intelligence: why reductionism fails to describe consciousness (and dissipative structures as a whole)."
5 posts
#9
Philosophy
: "Dissolving the Hard Problem of Consciousness: A Metaphilosophical Reappraisal"
4 posts
#10
Self
: "What if by solving the hard problem of consciousness, we inadvertently create a memetic cognitohazard that breaks the illusion of Self awareness?"
3 posts
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