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.
THANK YOU: To Mike Duffy, of https://dailymystic.org for your insight, help, and recommendations on this channel.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
- Mortal Computation, a Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence (Karl Friston): https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09589
- A Path to Generative Artificial Selves (Joscha Bach and Liane Gabora): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/y3tzs
- Podcast w/ Joshua on TOE (solo): https://youtu.be/3MNBxfrmfmI
- Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Ben Goertzel on TOE: https://youtu.be/xw7omaQ8SgA
- Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & John Vervaeke on TOE: https://youtu.be/rK7ux_JhHM4
- Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/kgMFnfB5E_A
- Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Donald Hoffman on TOE: https://youtu.be/bhSlYfVtgww
- Podcast w/ Karl Friston solo on TOE: https://youtu.be/SWtFU1Lit3M
- Podcast w/ Karl Friston & Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/J6eJ44Jq_pw
- Podcast w/ Karl Friston & Anna Lemke on TOE: COMING
- Podcast w/ Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/Z0TNfysTazc
- Podcast w/ Chris Fields on TOE: https://youtu.be/J6eJ44Jq_pw
- I Am a Strange Loop (Douglas Hofstadter): https://amzn.to/3GGqjpM
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