Christof Koch: Consciousness and its Place in Nature
Christof Koch
Consciousness and its Place in Nature
May 31, 2019 - University of Oregon - Eugene
Christof Koch, Chief Scientist and President of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, will give a talk titled “Consciousness and its Place in Nature” as the first in an annual lecture series sponsored by the University of Oregon's Institute of Neuroscience.
Koch joined the Allen Institute for Brain Science as Chief Scientific Officer in 2011 and became president in 2015. He has published extensively, and his writings and interests integrate theoretical, computational, and experimental neuroscience with philosophy and contemporary trends, in particular, artificial intelligence.
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Simply Brilliant highly recommend seeing this a few times.
When I'm playing with video feedback the most interesting moments are NOT when the camera is staring 100% into itself, nor 100% outside of itself, but this fine line between self and other. Like surfing the edges of the mandlebrot set. Consciousness has always been that to me.
@juliusjaxxon4411
3 жыл бұрын
instablaster
The physical structure implements consciousness, it gives rise to it just as much as the CPUs of our computers give rise to the image on the screen.
Thanks for uploading this
Trying to get this photopoem into Christof's hands, but he's not contactable by the public, or a poet either for that matter, that I can yet find anyway. The poem was partly inspired by one of his articles, "Is Consciousness Universal" Scientific American, 2014. The poem: @t
So good. Why so few views?!
@kevinfairweather3661
4 жыл бұрын
Because the seekers are few but the sheep are many... !
Phi is a measure of the expressiveness of consciousness, the degrees of freedom and distinctions of thoughts, not the awareness of thoughts itself.
interesting...we have published a couple of these ideas some years ago...
experience is not equal to consciousness.
In dreams we are not self-conscious!
@RolandOrre
4 жыл бұрын
Are we not? I consider myself equally self conscious in dreams as within this reality. When I was younger occasionally even more self conscious as I was able to levitate at will, OK, required quite some mental effort.
@pianospeedrun
4 жыл бұрын
Check out lucid dreaming stephen. It feels so real and you're so conscious that some people got the idea that you have an astral body and different planes of reality... It takes some "work" tho to have them reliably
@StephenPaulKing
4 жыл бұрын
@@pianospeedrun I have studied those subjects. My comment relates to the default case of dreaming, but the fact that lucid dreaming is possible gives clues about consciousness.
He doesn't describe DMT very well
3 жыл бұрын
It would be accurate if he was taking a out 5-MeO-DMT
Such absolute Nonsense!!! "Consciousness is an internal causal power" -- What does that even mean? Even he couldn't explain this to himself. Sad that he was trained by Crick....what a waste!
@JAKKOtutorials
4 жыл бұрын
internal causal power in the sense that the agents of a causal chain in a system are subsystems of this system and not external forces, it's quite a complicated thing to explain actually, we're basically trying to visualize a system (nature) in which external forces (nature laws) keep it together but at the same time this system has subsystems (conscious beings) which are capable of internalizing information about this system and are able to initiate causal chains which can be way more complex, not necessarily more powerful, than the ones caused by "external" causal powers, more than that, some of these 'internal causal powers' are able to add new causal chains which didn't exist before, like music. i hope this can help.