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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Michael Levin Λ Karl Friston Λ Chris Fields on The Meta Hard Problem, Consciousness, and Babbling

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Curt's AMA #:3 https://youtu.be/SX9q2D6b5bc

Karl Friston #2: https://youtu.be/SWtFU1Lit3M

Karl Friston #1: https://youtu.be/2v7LBABwZKA

Michael Levin: https://youtu.be/Z0TNfysTazc


TIMESTAMPS:

0:00:00 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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Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it.

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