Sadhguru LIVE conversation with Neurologist Steven Laurey on Consciousness

[Nak Khid]

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Sadhguru LIVE conversation with Neurologist Steven Laureys JUN 17, 2020  2PM EST (U.S)

 

 

 

Steven Laureys  is a Belgian neurologist. He is recognized worldwide as a leading clinician and researcher in the field of neurology of consciousness.

Prof. Laureys graduated as a Medical Doctor from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, in 1993. While specializing in neurology he entered a research career and obtained his M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Medicine working on pain and stroke using in vivo microdialysis and diffusion MRI in the rat (1997). Drawn by functional neuroimaging, he moved to the Cyclotron Research Center at the University of Liège, Belgium, where he obtained his Ph.D. studying residual brain function in the vegetative state in 2000. He is board-certified in neurology (1998) and in end-of-life and palliative medicine (2004).

He currently leads the Coma Science Group at the Cyclotron Research Centre of the University of Liège, Belgium. He is clinical professor of neurology, at the Liège University Hospital and Research Director at the National Fund for Scientific Research.

Laureys is chair of the World Federation of Neurology's Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Group and of the European Neurological Society's Subcommittee on Coma and Disorders of Consciousness.[2] Since 2009, he is invited professor at the Royal Academy of Belgium.
In 2010, he was invited to give a research lecture at Nobel Forum.

His team assesses the recovery of neurological disability and of neuronal plasticity in severely brain damaged patients with altered states of consciousness by means of multimodal functional neuroimaging. It aims at characterizing the brain structure and the residual cerebral function in patients who survive a severe brain injury: patients in coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state and locked in syndrome.

The importance of this project is twofold. First, these patients represent a problem in terms of diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and daily management. Second, these patients offer the opportunity to explore human consciousness, which is presently one major conundrum neurosciences have to solve. Indeed, these patients present a complete, nearly graded, range of conscious states from unconsciousness (coma) to full awareness (locked-in syndrome).

This research confronts clinical expertise and bedside behavioral evaluation of altered states of consciousness with state-of-the-art multimodal imaging combining the information from positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), structural MRI, electroencephalography (EEG), event related potential (ERP) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) data.

 

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Edited June 17, 2020 by Nak Khid

[Nak Khid]

listening to this live now,  Sadhguru is  disagreeing with some things 

[An young being]

It was a very interesting conversation. Sadhguru is the clear winner here ! 

[An young being]

One thing Sadhguru is so sure is that drugs will bring only a temporary change in perception and give a glimpse of consciousness experience. He is stressing on the importance of achieving that state naturally, and tells that one day such drugs will drain our body. Maybe it's marketing strategy for his meditation classes, who knows.

[Dazgwny]

Was a good watch this. Funny to see sort of 2 ends of the spectrum discussing the topic. Credit to the scientist fella at least he’s listening and trying to take on board guru’s views. But it’s clear he just doesn’t get it, at least he can admit that. Most scientists just write these things off in an instant. I’m not convinced about this karmic bubble type thing he’s on about though that’s something that would need validation from myself, like all things I guess. At the moment I just don’t see that, maybe though, but for now I ain’t got that. I couldn’t help but laugh at the blokes reactions though, and could only imagine what it would have been like if it was leo on the other end of that call instead, let the scientist babble on about the brain and then see his mystified dumbstruck reaction if leo just then turned round to him and said you don’t have a brain’? and proceeded to rattle off his why you don’t have a brain episode to him. I think I’d probably collapse and cry with laughter at the science guys mortified reactions. Would be humorous to say the least

[DrewNows]

I love what Sadhguru says about the capturing of life in the moment relating to ones significance...counter Intuitive move to add karma rather than avoid it (Karmic material) 

[Nak Khid]

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