Mind & Matter

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

Nov 7, 2022

02:29:46

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Terrence Deacon

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Qué es la teleología y por qué es importante.

02:50

Order emerging from chaos: Misconceptions about the second law of thermodynamics

01:09

Natural Organization and the Fibonacci Series

01:25

Teleodynamics and the Complexity of Ends

01:22

Introduction

5min

What's Your Career Focused On?

4min

What Is Teleology and Why Is It Important?

4min

The Second Law of Thermodynamics Is Being Overcome

2min

Is There a Difference Between Life and Non-Life?

5min

The Origin of Life and Constraints

1min

The Problem With Self-Organize Processes

5min

The Origins of Life

5min

The Emergence of Life

4min

10.

Is Life Reducible?

3min

11.

The Origins of Life

3min

12.

The Origins of DNA

5min

13.

Build a Body of Incredible Complexity

2min

14.

The Complexity of Your Brain and My Brain

2min

15.

The Transition From Non-Life to Life

5min

16.

Animals With Brains

5min

17.

Neurons Are Teleodynamic. Every Neuron Is Alive.

2min

18.

Cognition Is the Inverse of Life

4min

19.

What Computers Are Doing Is Just the Opposite of What Brains Do

3min

20.

Sensitivity Is the Inherent Tendency Towards Self-Preservation

3min

21.

The Origins of Life

4min

22.

Patterns in Neuronal Activity - What Are They?

4min

23.

How to Focus Attention on Smell in Rabbits

2min

24.

How Does Neuronal Activity Drive Cognitive Changes?

4min

25.

Neural Correlations of Consciousness

3min

26.

Is There a Difference Between the Basal and the Resting Metabolism of Muscle Cells?

6min

27.

The Importance of Constraints in the Brain

4min

28.

How to Build a Computer Language From the Top

2min

29.

Symbolic Representation of Language

4min

30.

How Does It Get Produced in Brains?

4min

31.

Is There Another Side to This?

1min

32.

The Source of What's Most Noble About Humanity

6min

33.

Evo-Devo Is the Experience of Being Sensitive

3min

34.

The Evolution of the Nervous System

5min

35.

What's the Dynamic Development of the Brain?

1min

36.

The Subtitle of the Book Is How Mind Emerges From Matter

6min

37.

Is There a Negative Definition of Time?

4min

38.

Falling Up: Inverse Darwinism and Life's Complexity Ratchet

5min

39.

Why Do We Need Vitamin C?

3min

40.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics - Degradation of Function

3min

41.

The Darwinian Story Is the Inverse of Darwinism

4min

42.

Heel - The Best Amino Acid Products

2min

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Nick talks to biological anthropologist & neuroscientist Dr. Terrence Deacon, who is a professor of biological anthropologist at UC-Berkeley and a leading thinker on the evolution of language, consciousness and human cognition. They discuss: how end-directed systems, such as life, can emerge from non-life; how complexity evolves once life originates; the origins of sentience and a sense of self; the evolution of the nervous system and consciousness; information, value, and "aboutness" in the universe; and more.

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