The Ontology of Consciousness

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i think i don't wan to let this go by too quickly, becausetha, what you just said is not only very beautiful, but philosophically really, really important. But when i have these arguments with people who would like to let a richer ontology into their universe, so they would like, like we said before, have new fundamental concepts at every level. Well, i'm helping myself to the that i see tables and chairs, and i know what they are already,. long before i ever knew what adams were. And i think that a lot of the people who want these richerOntologies are saying like, there's no way you'll ever find tables and

Those of us who think that that the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely known tend to also think that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon that must be compatible with those laws. To hold such a position in a principled way, it’s important to have a clear understanding of “emergence” and when it happens. Anil Seth is a leading researcher in the neuroscience of consciousness, who has also done foundational work (often in collaboration with Lionel Barnett) on what emergence means. We talk about information theory, entropy, and what they have to do with how things emerge.

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Anil Seth received his D.Phil in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex. He is currently a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at Sussex, as well as co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. He has served as the president of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association, and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness. His new book is Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.

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