i was trained in a behavior lab from dug navric at calstet fullerton. He writes, i reject mentalistic explanations of behavior. This simple definition can account for all biological minds on earth, from bacteria all the way up to humans. It also can compass cities and countries as being conscious as well. Bacteria, one day, artificial intelligence, city, country, us, our own individual mind. At the heart of every mind is a loop that goes from the environment into the mind and back out again. Censury inputs come in, the mind processes, it creates a behavior which goes to the output. That behavior output then influences the next input - this loop is at
Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind―to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.
Michael Shermer speaks with computational neuroscientist, Ogi Ogas, about his unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos, and how leading cities and nation-states are developing “superminds,” and perhaps planting the seeds for even higher forms of consciousness.