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#82 - Dr. JOSCHA BACH - Digital Physics, DL and Consciousness [UNPLUGGED]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Are You Self Conscious or Does Self Organization Entail Self Conscience?

Carl Friston's view that consciousness is nothing more than inference about my future resonates with me. Most of the free energy principle comes down to predictive coding, which is in some sense, a radical test with GBT3. So I don't think it's a stupid idea that Carfisten proposes, but we are born with additional loss functions that let us converge much, much faster on something that is useful to the organism. And if we think about consciousness, he has a point about agency in there. Agency means that you have a controller that is able to control the future. But this model of the itself is not identical to our consciousness. Our consciousness is a feeling of what

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