Closer To Truth Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation?
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Mar 6, 2024 
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Sean Carroll
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Paul Davies
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Max Tegmark
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Giulio Tononi
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David Wallace
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David Chalmers
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Bernard Carr
This podcast explores the perplexing concept of consciousness and delves into novel explanations for its existence. Featuring interviews with prominent experts, it discusses the enigma of consciousness, its essential properties, the interplay with quantum mechanics, and controversial theories surrounding its nature.
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The Baffling Nature of Consciousness
- Consciousness is everything we experience, and eliminating experience leaves nothing.
- Studying the brain alone won't reveal the essence of consciousness, a hard problem requiring a different approach.
Axioms of Consciousness
- Understand consciousness by identifying its essential properties: existence, structure, information, integration, and exclusion.
- These axioms define every experience and should guide our search for their underlying cause.
Integrated Information Theory
- Integrated Information Theory posits that each conscious experience is a maximally irreducible conceptual structure (MICS).
- This MICS, a shape in qualia space, is identical to the experience itself.