Conversations on consciousness, philosophy of mind, non-dualism, phenomenology, and the hard problem.
Curated by: Curt Jaimungal (139 videos)
Karl Friston, Joscha Bach, and Curt Jaimungal delve into death, neuroscientific models of Ai, God, and consciousness. SPONSOR: HelloFresh: Go to https://HelloFresh.com/theoriesofeverythingfree and use code theoriesofeverythingfree for FREE breakfast for life! Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe TIMESTAMPS: - 00:00:00 Introduction - 00:01:47 Karl and Joscha's new paper - 00:09:13 Sentience vs. consciousness vs. The Self - 00:21:00 Self-organization, thingness, and self-evidencing - 00:29:02 Overlapping realities and physics as art - 00:41:05 Mortal computation and substrate-agnostic Ai - 00:56:38 Beyond Von Neumann architectures - 01:00:23 Ai surpassing human researchers - 01:20:34 Exploring vs. Exploiting (the risk of curiosity in academia) - 01:27:02 Incompleteness and interdependence - 01:32:25 Defining consciousness - 01:53:36 Multiple overlapping consciousnesses - 02:03:03 Unified experience and schizophrenia "insights" - 02:10:16 Psychedelic experiences - 02:22:20 Institutional rot in science - 02:23:31 OpenAI CEO controversy - 2:31:09 Existential crises as one delves into consciousness - 02:35:06 Podcast wrap-up NOTE: The perspectives expressed by guests don't necessarily mirror my own. There's a versicolored arrangement of people on TOE, each harboring distinct viewpoints, as part of my endeavor to understand the perspectives that exist. THANK YOU: To Mike Duffy, of https://dailymystic.org for your insight, help, and recommendations on this channel. - Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch LINKS MENTIONED: - Mortal Computation, a Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence (Karl Friston & Alex Ororbia): https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09589 - A Path to Generative Artificial Selves (Joscha Bach & Liane Gabora): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/y3tzs - Podcast w/ Joshua on TOE (solo): https://youtu.be/3MNBxfrmfmI - Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Ben Goertzel on TOE: https://youtu.be/xw7omaQ8SgA - Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & John Vervaeke on TOE: https://youtu.be/rK7ux_JhHM4 - Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/kgMFnfB5E_A - Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Donald Hoffman on TOE: https://youtu.be/bhSlYfVtgww - Podcast w/ Karl Friston solo on TOE: https://youtu.be/SWtFU1Lit3M - Podcast w/ Karl Friston & Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/J6eJ44Jq_pw - Podcast w/ Karl Friston & Anna Lembke on TOE: COMING - Podcast w/ Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/Z0TNfysTazc - Podcast w/ Chris Fields on TOE: https://youtu.be/J6eJ44Jq_pw - I Am a Strange Loop (Douglas Hofstadter): https://amzn.to/3GGqjpM