Reason with Science

Physical reality and mind with Chris Fields | Reason with Science | Quantum theory | Consciousness

Mar 5, 2023

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Is There a Theory of Consciousness?

05:05

The Interaction of Multiple Agents in a Developmental Organism

04:15

Is the Self Emerging?

04:16

Introduction

5min

What Is the Self?

1min

The Extensive Mind Hypothesis

5min

What Is Mind?

3min

How Do We Combine Consciousness With the Self?

2min

The Evolution of Consciousness

5min

Panpsychism

1min

What's the Subtlety of Panpsychism?

4min

Is There a Boundary?

3min

10.

The Lineage of Luca

5min

11.

Information and Energetic Exchange

3min

12.

The Information Exchange Between a DNA Molecule and a Polymerase

2min

13.

What's the Boundary Between a Quantum Field and a Polymerase?

4min

14.

Exactly What Do You Mean by Identical Particles?

2min

15.

Is the Self Emerging?

4min

16.

Is There a Language That Doesn't Work in Ontology?

2min

17.

Is There Progress in Philosophy?

5min

18.

What Is the Experience of a Dog or a Cat or an E Coli?

4min

19.

What Does Stiff Wind Feel Like to an Oak Tree?

3min

20.

Is Consciousness a Relationship?

2min

21.

Is Consciousness a Noun?

3min

22.

Are Human Infants Conscious?

4min

23.

Is There a Theory of Consciousness?

5min

24.

What Are the Commonalities of Experience?

4min

25.

What Is Complex or What Can Be More Complex?

1min

26.

Are We Looking for Complexity?

2min

27.

What's the Environment of Life?

5min

28.

Is There a Way to Build AI Systems That Think Like Humans?

5min

29.

What Makes the Internet So Complex?

3min

30.

A New Approach to Cognitive Approaches to AI

5min

31.

Xenobots: Is It Possible?

3min

32.

Is the Environment Really a Predictor of the Environment?

5min

33.

The Interaction of Multiple Agents in a Developmental Organism

4min

34.

The Cells as Cognitive Agents

2min

This episode is with Chris Fields. He is an independent scientist with a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Colorado. Here we talk about what is a self?, nature of consciousness, physical reality, quantum field theory, panpsychism, boundaries of cognition, complex systems and a theory of consciousness.

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Website: https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:53 What is a self?

00:06:13 Difference between a self of a bacteria and human?

00:11:20 Self and a mind

00:14:22 Consciousness and a self

00:20:13 Panpsychism

00:22:25 Boundaries of cognition

00:26:40 Properties of LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)

00:34:22 Memory and information in a system

00:39:24 How far we can stretch the understanding of boundaries?

00:45:14 Where is a self in the transitions of matter?

00:51:31 Language trap in exploring consciousness

00:56:20 Scale of consciousness

01:05:20 Attributing consciousness to chemistry

01:07:20 Consciousness during the development of a human

01:11:11 What would it mean to have a theory of consciousness?

01:16:17 Experience of larger and complex systems

01:20:03 Understanding complexity

01:27:48 Building complex systems like AI

01:32:32 What makes internet so complex?

01:35:34 Mike Levin's work to create Xenobots

01:41:00 Creating artificial bacteria

01:45:26 Origin of life

01:54:08 Thank you!

Music by: Ahmed Hassan (https://www.youtube.com/@2ays577/featured)

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