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Joscha Bach Λ Karl Friston: Ai, Death, Self, God, Consciousness

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Exploring Mortality, Sustainability, and the Limits of Human Design

This chapter delves into human mortality and the complex ties between survival and existence. It argues for sustainability as a preferable alternative to immortality, suggesting that while individuals are mortal, systems can evolve to endure over time.

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Karl Friston, Joscha Bach, and Curt Jaimungal delve into death, neuroscientific models of Ai, God, and consciousness.

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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

- 02:32:22 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.

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