Mind & Matter

Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95

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Nov 7, 2022
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Terrence Deacon
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 5min
2
What's Your Career Focused On?
04:40 • 4min
3
What Is Teleology and Why Is It Important?
08:54 • 4min
4
The Second Law of Thermodynamics Is Being Overcome
12:50 • 2min
5
Is There a Difference Between Life and Non-Life?
14:54 • 5min
6
The Origin of Life and Constraints
19:32 • 1min
7
The Problem With Self-Organize Processes
20:58 • 5min
8
The Origins of Life
25:53 • 5min
9
The Emergence of Life
31:00 • 4min
10
Is Life Reducible?
34:38 • 3min
11
The Origins of Life
37:41 • 3min
12
The Origins of DNA
40:17 • 5min
13
Build a Body of Incredible Complexity
45:43 • 2min
14
The Complexity of Your Brain and My Brain
48:00 • 2min
15
The Transition From Non-Life to Life
49:41 • 5min
16
Animals With Brains
54:47 • 5min
17
Neurons Are Teleodynamic. Every Neuron Is Alive.
59:58 • 2min
18
Cognition Is the Inverse of Life
01:01:58 • 4min
19
What Computers Are Doing Is Just the Opposite of What Brains Do
01:05:34 • 3min
20
Sensitivity Is the Inherent Tendency Towards Self-Preservation
01:08:46 • 3min
21
The Origins of Life
01:11:28 • 4min
22
Patterns in Neuronal Activity - What Are They?
01:15:27 • 4min
23
How to Focus Attention on Smell in Rabbits
01:19:39 • 2min
24
How Does Neuronal Activity Drive Cognitive Changes?
01:21:55 • 4min
25
Neural Correlations of Consciousness
01:25:54 • 3min
26
Is There a Difference Between the Basal and the Resting Metabolism of Muscle Cells?
01:28:51 • 6min
27
The Importance of Constraints in the Brain
01:34:21 • 4min
28
How to Build a Computer Language From the Top
01:38:05 • 2min
29
Symbolic Representation of Language
01:40:29 • 4min
30
How Does It Get Produced in Brains?
01:44:04 • 4min
31
Is There Another Side to This?
01:48:13 • 1min
32
The Source of What's Most Noble About Humanity
01:49:37 • 6min
33
Evo-Devo Is the Experience of Being Sensitive
01:55:20 • 3min
34
The Evolution of the Nervous System
01:57:55 • 5min
35
What's the Dynamic Development of the Brain?
02:02:37 • 1min
36
The Subtitle of the Book Is How Mind Emerges From Matter
02:04:01 • 6min
37
Is There a Negative Definition of Time?
02:09:33 • 4min
38
Falling Up: Inverse Darwinism and Life's Complexity Ratchet
02:13:42 • 5min
39
Why Do We Need Vitamin C?
02:18:16 • 3min
40
The Second Law of Thermodynamics - Degradation of Function
02:21:27 • 3min
41
The Darwinian Story Is the Inverse of Darwinism
02:24:09 • 4min
42
Heel - The Best Amino Acid Products
02:27:41 • 2min