Karl Friston, Michael Levin, and Chris Field sit down for an epochal conversation on cognition and consciousness.
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CORRECTION:
- Chris Fields emailed me the following: "I referred to Peter Strawson when I meant to refer to his son, Galen Strawson, who has done the work on panpsychism."
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- Curt's AMA #:3 [ Ссылка ]
- Karl Friston #2: [ Ссылка ]
- Karl Friston #1: [ Ссылка ]
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:20 Michael Levin answers: "What do you respect about Chris / Karl?"
00:04:45 Chris Fields answers: "What do you respect about Michael / Karl?"
00:05:45 Karl Friston answers: "What do you respect about Chris / Michael?"
00:07:46 Self organization / Autopoiesis / Why does life form?
00:12:11 How does cognition emerge from smaller parts?
00:14:18 Why do we see "things" independent from one another? Why in space / time?
00:18:40 Relationship between cognition and consciousness
00:22:03 The Meta Hard Problem
00:30:37 Why is complexity associated with "awareness"?
00:35:56 Is society one large brain, with each person acting as a neuron?
00:44:17 Duality between: Did you act on the world? Or did the world act on you?
00:51:32 Babbling, and becoming a "self"
01:11:22 "300 milliseconds" is a special unit of time for consciousness
01:15:49 Quantum Babbling
01:21:49 The difference between "randomness" and "quantum randomness"
01:30:03 The difference between "external" and "internal" are both real and illusory
01:33:41 Studying consciousness / the self and the concomitant existential dread
01:48:19 Michael Levin: "Something important goes all the way down"
01:51:12 Science starts with faith
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